About
Mycelium is leading a transformation in carbon accounting with its open-access emissions database. By creating a one-stop network powered by artificial intelligence, Mycelium consolidates emissions data from thousands of businesses into an accessible format. It aims to empower companies, climate-focused apps, and decision-makers with real-time access to sustainability data that ensures transparency and accountability.
Challenge
To establish their initial open-access database, Mycelium were looking to collect publicly available sustainability and carbon reports, pulling verified emissions data from businesses across the UK. To enable such large scale collection, they have used Bright Data’s Datasets, Scraping Browser tools, and Residential Proxies to pull the relevant data from public domains and sent the structured data to their AI powered dashboard.
As we’re working in a space trying to democratize access to carbon emissions data, we were welcomed to The Bright Initiative. They gave us access to their data sets and tools which we have been able to harness and push our mission forward. It’s incredible the amount of data they can handle and surface so quickly, and the breadth of their data collection is almost unfathomable.
Tom Carpenter, Founder of Mycelium
Impact
By integrating Bright Data’s advanced tools, Mycelium’s platform pulled verified data from public sources like Glassdoor, LinkedIn, and Yahoo Finance, creating an ecosystem of transparent carbon accounting. The Open-Access platform currently hosts 13,000 verified sustainability reports from UK companies and provides tools for live access through its API.
