The startup journey Adrian Fleming Director of Environment, Social and Governance at Diligent Corporation

One of the most interesting and stressful times for an entrepreneur is founding a startup and helping it grow and thrice. Along the way mistakes may be made, mistakes that can make or break a startup. One entrepreneur who knows the startup journey all too well is Adrian Fleming, Director of Environment, Social and Governance at Diligent Corporation.

Adrian founded Accuvio, a sustainability enterprise SaaS company in 2009, and scaled it from a scrappy start-up to a thriving company until getting acquired by Diligent Corporation in 2021. Ronan talks to Adrian about the highs and lows of the startup journey, including how Accuvio started, fund raising, selling Accuvio to the Diligent Corporation and startup hints and tips.

More about Adrian:

Adrian founded Accuvio to provide leading innovative sustainability reporting solutions to multi-national and public sector organisations all over the world. His experience working for companies such as Dell, Accenture, Ingersol Rand, and JP Morgan, has helped him with Accuvio. Adrian built Accuvio to provide a purpose built software platform which gives incredible flexibility and customisation to suit clients big and small in different industry sectors.