7 Sustainability Consulting Business Success Stories [2024]

Updated: November 1st, 2023
Start A Sustainability Consulting Business

Here are some real life success stories of starting a sustainability consulting business:

1. Sustain Academy ($420K/year)

Auste and Ieva founded Sustain Academy after realizing the lack of practical resources to educate sustainability professionals. They spoke with over 100 field experts and tested their concept in the Lithuanian market before launching their 10-week online sustainability course. The business has since attracted over 100 companies from 10 different countries and uses a combination of PR, social media, email marketing, and personal branding to attract and retain customers.

How much they make: $420K/year
Current team size:

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How We Created A $35K/Month Sustainability Online Course

Sustain Academy is an online sustainability academy that offers a 10-week LIVE online sustainability course followed by 1:1 mentorship, taught by the world’s best field experts; so far, more than 100 companies from over 10 different countries have trained their employees with them.

Revenue
Auste grew the business to $35K/month
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4. EcoVadis

Ratings platform to assess corporate social responsibility and sustainable procurement. Solutions include risk monitoring, audit management and sustainability ratings.

Website traffic: 130K/month

5. ELEVATE

ELEVATE is the industry leader in business driven sustainability and supply chain services globally. We deliver holistic solutions for the full value chain.

6. CarbonClick

CarbonClick provides gold standard carbon offsetting to online stores, to businesses and to consumers through point of sale systems and ecommerce checkouts through it's Shopify app.

How much they make:
Where they're located: Auckland, New Zealand
How much did it cost to start: $5M
Current team size: 12

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