Recognition rarely arrives by accident. When it does, it usually reflects a convergence of timing, technology, and purpose. Generation Impact Global was named among the Forbes Top 100 Italian Startups at the end of last year, in December 2025, when Forbes Italia included the company in its annual special issue curated by Ventive. The selection highlights organizations that are not only growing, but reshaping how markets approach sustainability, governance, and risk.
For us, the recognition marks a moment of validation rather than arrival. It confirms that the challenge we set out to address—making non-financial data intelligible, reliable, and strategically useful—has moved from the margins to the center of business decision-making.
Why This Matters
Business is undergoing a structural shift. Financial statements alone no longer capture how organizations perform or where their vulnerabilities lie. Regulators, investors, and stakeholders increasingly rely on ESG, sustainability, and governance data to assess resilience, credibility, and long-term value. Yet this information remains fragmented, complex, and often disconnected from real strategic use.
Generation Impact Global was built to close this gap. Being included in the Forbes Top 100 reflects the growing understanding that non-financial data, when properly structured and analyzed, is not a reporting obligation but a source of competitive advantage.
What We Do
Generation Impact Global is a Swiss-based SaaS company focused on automating and managing non-financial data across ESG, sustainability, impact measurement, risk management, and due diligence. Our platform applies advanced intelligence to help organizations collect, structure, and interpret complex information with greater speed, consistency, and clarity.
The objective is not merely efficiency. By transforming dense regulatory and ESG datasets into decision-ready insights, we support organizations in shifting from reactive compliance to informed, forward-looking strategy.
From Obligation to Strategic Asset
For many organizations, ESG reporting still feels externally imposed—necessary, but disconnected from core business priorities. Our approach starts from a different premise: transparency, when designed into systems rather than added afterward, creates value.
Reliable data improves governance. Better governance reduces uncertainty. Lower uncertainty supports sustainable growth. This logic underpins our work with companies, funds, and institutions that want to integrate ESG considerations into how decisions are made, not just how disclosures are produced.
A Swiss Company, Deeply Connected to Italy
Generation Impact Global is headquartered in Switzerland, but Italy plays a central role in our ecosystem. A significant portion of our client base operates in Italy, and we work closely with Italian institutions, funds, and industrial partners navigating evolving ESG and regulatory frameworks.
Beyond the market, we actively support innovation through collaborations with Italian universities and research centers, contributing to the development of new methodologies, skills, and applied research in sustainability, data governance, and impact measurement. This cross-border exchange between Swiss structure and Italian innovation has become a defining feature of how we operate.
The Vision Behind the Platform
The company was founded by Anna Shpak and co-founded by Riccardo Farisi with the conviction that technology could bridge the widening gap between regulatory complexity and strategic clarity. From the outset, the ambition was not to build another reporting tool, but an adaptive infrastructure capable of evolving alongside regulations, market expectations, and organizational needs.
The Forbes recognition reflects not only the platform itself, but the long-term vision behind it: making non-financial data usable, comparable, and genuinely relevant to decision-makers.
An Expanding Ecosystem
Our growth has been reinforced by partnerships with investment funds, financial institutions, corporates, and academic stakeholders. These relationships help ensure that the platform remains grounded in real operational challenges rather than theoretical models.
As ESG standards continue to evolve across jurisdictions, this ecosystem-driven approach allows us to adapt responsibly while maintaining consistency and rigor.
Looking Ahead
While our structure is international and our base is Swiss, our engagement with Italy remains strategic. Italy represents both a key market and a laboratory for innovation, where regulatory change, industrial complexity, and academic excellence intersect.
Being named among the Forbes Top 100 Italian Startups provides visibility at a moment when demand for robust non-financial data infrastructure is accelerating across Europe and beyond. It also reflects the strength of cross-border collaboration in building solutions that respond to global challenges through local expertise.
Conclusion
The inclusion of Generation Impact Global in the Forbes Top 100 Italian Startups in December 2025 is a meaningful marker of progress. It signals a broader shift in how organizations value clarity over volume and intelligence over disclosure alone. For us, it is both recognition and responsibility: an incentive to continue building systems that help organizations navigate sustainability, risk, and growth with greater confidence, discipline, and purpose.
