Sustainability has quietly shifted into mere compliance. Teams now spend 80% of their time reformatting data for ESG requests, disconnected from strategy, revenue, or practical implications. The root problem is structural. beSirius tackles this head-on.
“Sustainability data is intricate, detailed, and context-dependent. It evolves with operations, supply chains, and regulations. Today’s tools reduce it to static, retrospective reports designed for checklists rather than informed decisions. beSirius transforms ESG from a burden into an essential framework, enabling real-time data usability across the organisation to enhance outcomes,” beSirius CEO and co-founder Anastasia Kuskova told TFN exclusively.
Today, this AI-powered sustainability intelligence platform for metals, mining, and heavy industries has raised €3 million in a seed funding round led by NAP (formerly Cavalry Ventures), with participation from Fund F, Techstars, Blackwood, WEPA Ventures, and Golden Egg Check. This funding will accelerate product development and deepen integrations with supply chains, auditors, and financial institutions — replacing static sustainability reporting with real-time intelligence that informs deals, procurement, and strategic decisions.
This brings the total funding to €4.2M, with valuation not being disclosed to TFN.
Leveraging sustainability insights for smarter decision-making
Founded in 2022 by Anastasia Kuskova (CEO), Sergey Tyan (CCO), and Seva Martynov (CTO), beSirius was built by industry insiders who knew the problem firsthand. With over 20 years of combined expertise in metals, mining, and industrial tech, the founding team set out to eliminate reporting waste and turn sustainability data into a competitive edge.
“Metals and mining are at the heart of everything that powers the modern world — energy, technology, and defense. However, the industry is stuck translating complexity into static reports instead of using them to drive decisions. We built beSirius so companies stop firefighting reports and start using sustainability data to protect revenue, shape strategy, and win better deals,” said Kuskova.
The platform has been adopted by global industrial leaders looking to move beyond transactional reporting and build stronger, more strategic relationships with customers, investors, and suppliers. Renowned industry players such as FLSmidth (a leading mining engineering company), ArcelorMittal (a global steel manufacturer), and Freeport-McMoRan (a major mining company) are already using the beSirius platform.
Since launching, beSirius has onboarded key global metal and mining companies and saved thousands of hours of manual work for sustainability teams. The company has grown from three founders to a team of 17 and continues to expand its presence across Europe and North America. With this new investment, beSirius will deepen its AI infrastructure, extend platform capabilities, and scale adoption among industrial leaders focused on faster decisions, stronger customer relationships, and revenue protection.
Behind beSirius: sustainability twin and its approach to compliance
At the core of beSirius is the “Sustainability Twin,” a living digital profile that consolidates all qualitative and quantitative sustainability data, keeps it up to date, and makes it machine-readable.
Kuskova explained: “It’s a live, structured system that brings all sustainability data — narrative, quantitative, and contextual — into one place. Instead of reformatting the same ESG data for every stakeholder, companies use the Twin to generate responses automatically, benchmark against any standard, and track what matters to each stakeholder, as well as how it connects to commercial value. It eliminates rework, exposes gaps, and makes sustainability data usable for real business decisions.”
The beSirius AI engine uses this data to automatically respond to investor, regulator, and customer requests in the format they need. It reduces manual effort by over 70%, identifies gaps that impact investor and customer decisions, and helps companies focus on what matters most in the next negotiation.
“ESG as we’ve known it is dead. It’s no longer about reporting — it’s about business performance. Sustainability teams are buried in endless requests — each stakeholder asking for data differently. It’s slow, manual, and keeps smart people stuck in reporting instead of shaping strategy. We built beSirius as the ‘universal adapter’: it turns scattered data into clear answers and gives teams the clarity to drive decisions that protect revenue and strengthen relationships,” explained Kuskova.
Speaking about competition, Kuskova added: “Most tools treat sustainability as a reporting problem. We don’t. Generic ESG platforms focus on disclosure. They help teams consolidate numbers but ignore sustainability data’s complexity, nuance, and commercial weight.
beSirius treats sustainability as a data infrastructure problem. Our Sustainability Twin structures all qualitative and quantitative data into a live system — embedded in real workflows, connected to operations, strategy, and stakeholders. It works as a universal adapter, transforming data into any format needed, from regulatory reports to tailored customer questionnaires. That’s only possible because we’re built for where it matters most—complex, high-stakes value chains.
We don’t streamline reporting. We replace it — with live, contextual intelligence that drives decisions.”
Building the infrastructure for how sustainability data moves across global supply chains
Kuskova concluded: “We’re building the infrastructure for how sustainability data moves across global supply chains — a permissioned network of Sustainability Twins that makes data instantly available in any format and usable for real decisions. That means expanding our Twin architecture and integrating with customer systems, auditors, and financial institutions so companies stay in control of their data while giving each stakeholder the exact insights they need, in the format they expect, directly from the source. Eventually, becoming the system of record for sustainability data in critical industries.”
On being a female founder in a predominantly male industry, Kuskova remarked, “I spent years in mining and metals, so being the only woman in the room (and often the youngest) is nothing new. But the industry’s changing. Many of our key stakeholders today in sustainability, procurement, and strategy are women. But the beauty of startups is that you don’t need to fit in. The more contrarian, weird, and outlier you are—the better.”
“beSirius is turning sustainability data into a strategic asset, thanks to the team’s deep industry expertise and practical, AI-driven approach. Seeing adoption among early customers, we believe beSirius is well positioned to help an entire industry use data more effectively, improving decision-making and driving real impact across the value chain,” said Stefan Walter, Managing Partner at NAP.
