Product
Product Specifications
Module-by-module specifications for the Nordic Climate Finance Hub Investor Platform. Scope is investor-grade due diligence and climate financing — not MRV or carbon credits.
Scope
The Investor Platform supports the full pre-investment journey: discovering climate-aligned companies and projects, matching them to investor mandates, running investor-grade due diligence, tracking transactions, and Ecosystem Capital Summits for the Nordic climate-finance community through events, masterclasses, and intelligence. Carbon measurement, registry issuance, and credit trading are explicitly out of scope.
Information architecture
The platform's top-level navigation reflects six product areas plus support surfaces:
- Dealflow — Dashboard, News, Companies, Sectors, Locations.
- Matchup Tool — Companies, Professionals, Investors, Projects.
- Transactions — historical and live climate-finance transactions.
- Climate Finance Leaderboard — ranked activity across investors, sectors, geographies.
- Event Platform — NCF Summit and partner programming.
- Masterclass · Stats & Insights · Intelligence Base — learning and research surfaces.
- Contact · FAQ — support surfaces.
Glossary
- Investor — institutional LP, family office, DFI, corporate treasury, or fund GP.
- Company — climate venture or operating business seeking or attracting capital.
- Project — defined climate-financing project (infrastructure, energy, nature-based, industrial).
- Professional — individual operator, advisor, or expert listed in the Hub directory.
- Mandate — an investor's thesis: sectors, ticket size, geography, instrument, return profile.
- Match — a system-proposed pairing between two directory entities (e.g. investor ↔ company).
- Transaction — a recorded climate-finance deal (equity, debt, grant, blended).
Core entities
| Entity | Owns | Lifecycle |
|---|---|---|
| Company | profile, sector, location, team, raise status | submitted → verified → listed → archived |
| Project | profile, instrument, capital stack, milestones | submitted → verified → fundraising → closed |
| Investor | mandates, watchlist, members, activity | invited → active → archived |
| Professional | profile, expertise, affiliations | invited → active → archived |
| Match | parties, fit score, status, notes | suggested → mutual → introduced → declined |
| Transaction | parties, instrument, amount, date, sources | draft → verified → published |
| Event | agenda, sessions, attendees, sponsors | planned → open → live → closed |
| Lesson | module, video, resources, completions | draft → published → retired |
Module specs
Dealflow
- Dashboard — personalised home: mandate-fit opportunities, saved searches, watchlist activity, recent news.
- News — curated climate-finance news feed, tagged by company, sector, and location; filterable and savable.
- Companies — searchable directory of climate companies with profile, raise status, team, traction, and mandate-fit score.
- Sectors — taxonomy view (energy, mobility, food & land, industry, built environment, capital markets, etc.) with deal counts, leaders, and trends.
- Locations — geographic view across the Nordics and partner regions with map, filters, and country fact sheets.
- Acceptance: an investor lands on the Dashboard and sees at least 5 mandate-relevant items within 2 seconds of load.
Matchup Tool
Cross-directory matchmaking with explicit opt-in on both sides.
- Companies — match investors and advisors to companies based on stage, sector, geography, ticket size.
- Professionals — match operators, advisors, and experts to companies or investors needing expertise.
- Investors — investor-to-investor matching for co-investment and syndication signals.
- Projects — match capital providers to project pipelines by instrument and capital-stack slot.
- Match score is transparent: every score exposes the contributing criteria.
- Acceptance: a mutual match opens a private intro thread with an audit trail of consents.
Transactions
- Structured registry of climate-finance transactions: parties, instrument, amount, currency, date, sources.
- Verification workflow: submitted → reviewed → verified by Hub editorial.
- Filters by sector, geography, instrument, stage, lead investor, and time window.
- Per-transaction page with linked companies, investors, and supporting documents or articles.
- Export (CSV) and API access for verified investor tenants.
- Acceptance: 100 % of published transactions cite at least one verifiable source.
Climate Finance Leaderboard
- Rolling rankings of most active investors, top sectors, and top geographies for a chosen window (QTD, YTD, trailing 12 m).
- League tables for lead investors, follow-on investors, and most-funded companies.
- Methodology page documents inclusion rules, deduplication, and currency normalisation.
- Acceptance: leaderboards refresh at least daily and link every ranking back to underlying transactions.
Event Platform
- NCF Summit and partner events: agenda, sessions, speakers, sponsors, venues.
- Attendee profiles with opt-in directory, 1:1 meeting scheduler, and saved sessions.
- Ticketing and access control by ticket tier; on-site check-in support.
- Post-event recordings and resources surface in Masterclass and Intelligence Base.
- Acceptance: an attendee can book a 1:1 with another attendee in < 4 clicks.
Masterclass
- Structured learning paths on climate-finance topics (instruments, diligence, blended finance, Nordic regulation).
- Video lessons, downloadable resources, knowledge checks, and completion certificates.
- Editor workflow: draft → review → publish; lessons versioned with changelog.
- Acceptance: progress and completions persist per user across devices.
Stats & Insights
- Aggregated dashboards on Nordic climate-finance activity: volumes, instruments, sectors, geographies, time series.
- Configurable filters with deep-link sharing; chart export to PNG and CSV.
- Methodology and data lineage documented per metric.
- Acceptance: every chart links to the underlying records that produced it.
Intelligence Base
- Library of reports, market briefs, regulatory updates, and partner research.
- Full-text search, tagging by sector/geography/instrument, and saved searches with alerts.
- Access tiers (public, member, premium) with watermarked downloads.
- Acceptance: a search query returns ranked results in < 500 ms p95.
Contact & FAQ
- Contact form routed to the right Hub team (membership, editorial, events, support) with SLA tracking.
- FAQ organised by audience (investor, company, professional, event attendee), versioned and searchable.
- Acceptance: first response SLA is 1 business day for membership and support enquiries.
Cross-cutting: investor-grade due diligence
- Every Company, Project, and Transaction profile is built around an evidence-first model: claims link to sources.
- Standardised DD workstream attaches to any Company or Project: commercial, technical, financial, legal & regulatory, ESG & climate, team & governance, risk.
- Data rooms with granular permissions, watermarking, expiring links, NDA gating, and full access analytics.
- KYC / AML status, sanctions screening, and beneficial-ownership records captured per entity.
- Auto-assembled IC memo from scorecards, evidence, and recommendation.
Non-functional requirements
- 99.9 % monthly uptime for the investor workspace.
- RPO 5 min, RTO 1 h for the primary database.
- Data residency in the EU by default; per-tenant region pinning available.
- Launch locales: en, sv, no, da, fi; expansion: de, fr.
- Every screen meets WCAG 2.2 AA.
Out of scope
- MRV (Monitoring, Reporting, Verification) of carbon or biodiversity outcomes.
- Issuance, listing, retirement, or trading of carbon credits.
- Registry integrations (Verra, Gold Standard, etc.).
- Field data capture for plot-level measurements.