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Sony Innovation Fund Launches ESG Initiative Support Program for InvesteesTOKYO, June 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Innovation Fund, a corporate venture capital arm of Sony Group Corporation (hereafter "Sony"), today announced that it has developed an Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) evaluation process for its portfolio companies and launched a program to support each company's ESG efforts. Sony Innovation Fund believes that tackling ESG issues from an early stage is the key to the long-term and sustainable corporate value enhancement of each portfolio company. Unlike listed companies, there are few benchmarks or ESG scores available for start-up companies to refer to, but the Sony Innovation Fund has developed an ESG scoring methodology to assess the level of ESG maturity of start-ups, and introduced a process for evaluation at the time of investment and post-investment monitoring. By regularly measuring ESG scores before and after investment and giving feedback to portfolio companies, Sony Innovation Fund will contribute to improving the understanding of ESG by each portfolio company and support their further implementation of ESG initiatives. Sony Innovation Fund will also promote activities toward the realization of a sustainable and beter society through supporting technologies that help address social issues and the ventures that own those technologies. Statement from Toshimoto Mitomo, Executive Vice President, Sony Group Corporation <About Sony Innovation Fund>
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