data.world celebrates B Corp month by launching new philanthropic projects

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It’s been an eventful, fun, and highly successful year for data.world.

We closed our Series C funding round led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Our team and board of directors continues to grow despite an uncertain economy. We were named a “best place to work” for the seventh consecutive year by Austin Business Journal. We released dozens of new features and updates to our cloud-native, knowledge-graph-powered enterprise data catalog. And our open data community, the world’s largest — which contains hundreds of thousands of data sets made available for public use — has grown to more than two million members.

And as a Certified B Corporation — a business that puts as much emphasis on our social and environmental impact as we do our bottom line — we’ve done all this while surpassing the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose.

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Business as a force for good
Make no mistake, data.world was founded to denmark whatsapp number data generate revenue. But the company was also built from inception to work “for the good of humankind.”

Our mission and what drives us every day, is to build “the most meaningful, collaborative and abundant data resource in the world in order to maximize data’s societal problem-solving utility.”

(data.world is also a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), which — though different from a Certified B Corp — is also a business that has a clear mission to consider the impact of its actions on society. This means that a PBC can make decisions to do the things “for the good of humankind” which are set forth in its charter — and are given the legal protection to do so. As a result, a PBC can balance that mission with the pursuit of shareholder returns rather than being forced to maximize shareholder value at all costs.)

“We’re a for-benefit corporation, but we’re also still for-profit,” says data.world CEO and co-Founder Brett Hurt. “We’re trying to build a company, from the beginning, with values and a mission that’ll pass the test of time and do something very good for the world and humanity. This is something that runs deep in our DNA.”