BlueMark, the market's leading provider of independent impact assessments and market intelligence for the investment industry, announced the launch of the BlueMark IQ platform, which is custom-designed to make it easier for asset allocators to identify, monitor, and report on fund- and portfolio-level impact. Asset managers may list their funds for free on the BlueMark IQ platform, which is now available at www.bluemark.co/bluemarkIQ.

In support of the launch, BlueMark also announced new capital commitments from four investors – Ford Foundation, S&P Global, Temasek Trust Capital, and Tsao Family Office – each of whom participated in a prior BlueMark funding round.

"We routinely hear from asset allocators that they spend too much time collecting, aggregating, and making sense of impact and sustainability data," said Christina Leijonhufvud, CEO of BlueMark. "With BlueMark IQ, investors will be able to access better insights in less time, driving better decision-making and ultimately greater impact alongside financial returns."

"BlueMark IQ brings more discipline, insight, and comparability to investors' collection and evaluation of impact information, further enhanced by BlueMark's trusted verification and assurance capabilities," said Christine Looney, Deputy Director of Mission Investments at the Ford Foundation. "We see BlueMark IQ as the next step in the industry's maturation through enabling investors to streamline data collection, reduce reporting burdens, and centralize data analysis."

The BlueMark IQ platform brings together BlueMark's extensive verification insights, a platform for data exchange, and AI-powered analysis and reporting tools purpose-built for the investors seeking better data on the impact performance of their fund investments. BlueMark IQ is built on industry standards and frameworks, including the GIIN's IRIS+ dataset, the Operating Principles for Impact Management, the Impact Frontiers' Impact Performance Reporting Norms, and BlueMark's own Fund ID assessment. The key features of the platform include:

• IQ Directory - source investment opportunities based on BlueMark's directory of hundreds of investment funds, many already verified by BlueMark, across impact themes, asset classes, and return expectations
• IQ Screening & Benchmarking - evaluate funds using BlueMark's proprietary impact verification tools and benchmark data
• IQ Data Collection - access and request impact performance data from funds via the platform
• IQ Reporting - automate portfolio-level and client impact reporting and analytics with built-in dashboards, particularly for wealth management firms that want to improve reporting to their clients or attract new clients

Several asset allocators have already started using BlueMark IQ, including Caprock, Align Impact, GCM Grosvenor, Global Health Investment Corporation, Letter One, Surdna Foundation, and Tsao Family Office.