Caravel Labs, Inc.
Washington, United States
May 2023
Computer programming services
Service with Minor Environmental Footprint
India,
Puerto Rico,
United States
Caravel Labs is a software development consultancy which designs, builds, and operationalizes responsible software for an equitable, just, and sustainable world. Our aim is to equip organizations of all sizes with the digital technology solutions they need to empower and accelerate their mission. Caravel Labs provides support for organizations at any stage of their mission. We deliver ideation and exploration workshops, proof-of-concept design and development, full software solution implementation, and application support through site reliability engineering practices. We want our services to be approachable, so we offer fixed-price and pay-for-performance contracting models for most projects we take on. Pay-for-performance means we continuously monitor our delivery performance - if we don't deliver at the highest level of quality, you pay less. The Caravel Labs leadership team includes former-Microsoft architects, engineers, and product managers. Our team of software design and development professionals has been hand-selected from the global technology talent community. We have variety of professional certifications across Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, PMI, and Scrum and have successfully delivered solutions in over two dozen countries.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 16.9
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Governance 16.9
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Workers 32.2
Workers evaluates a company’s contributions to its employees’ financial security, health & safety, wellness, career development, and engagement & satisfaction. In addition, this section recognizes business models designed to benefit workers, such as companies that are at least 40% owned by non-executive employees and those that have workforce development programs to support individuals with barriers to employment.
Community 20.0
Community evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems, such as poverty alleviation through fair trade sourcing or distribution via microenterprises, producer cooperative models, locally focused economic development, and formal charitable giving commitments.
Environment 5.8
Environment evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable its supply chain and distribution channels. This section also recognizes companies with environmentally innovative production processes and those that sell products or services that have a positive environmental impact. Some examples might include products and services that create renewable energy, reduce consumption or waste, conserve land or wildlife, provide less toxic alternatives to the market, or educate people about environmental problems.
Customers 13.4
Customers evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels. In addition, this section recognizes products or services that are designed to address a particular social problem for or through its customers, such as health or educational products, arts & media products, serving underserved customers/clients, and services that improve the social impact of other businesses or organizations.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.