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Legacy

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Legacy

Automating carbon accounting & reporting

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Stage

  • Seed

Website

www.legacyco2.com?r=0 about https://www.legacyco2.com/?r=0
The challenge

Real‑estate owners and property managers face growing pressure to report and manage carbon emissions from large and complex building portfolios. Gathering accurate data on energy, water, and utilities across many buildings is tedious, error‑prone, and often done manually — making compliance with increasing sustainability regulations difficult. Traditional CO₂ reporting is cumbersome, time-consuming, lacks transparency, and slows down decarbonization efforts in the built environment.

The solution

Legacy offers a digital CO₂ accounting platform that automatically collects utility and consumption data for buildings across national partner networks, applies verified and supplier‑specific emissions factors, and outputs audit‑ready carbon reports that comply with key frameworks such as EU Taxonomy, SFDR, and CSRD. Their system covers millions of buildings and hundreds of emissions sources — enabling real‑estate stakeholders to track, benchmark, and compare emissions with transparency, save time by reducing manual data work, and make actionable decisions to decarbonize their portfolios with confidence.

Footprint team
Jakob Wichmann

Jakob Wichmann

Co-Founding Partner

+45 20 83 06 22 about tel:+45 20 83 06 22jmw@thefootprintfirm.com about mailto:jmw@thefootprintfirm.comlinkedin about https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakob-wichmann-ba84a0/

Jakob brings extensive expertise as an investor, entrepreneur, CEO, and management consultant, combined with significant international experience. He has served as a responsible partner on more than 200+ projects. He has served clients in international organizations and the private and public sectors on a wide range of issues, albeit always at the intersection between sustainability, research, and strategy. Jakob also serves as a trusted advisor to several senior executives, especially in private equity. He has been heavily engaged in the Footprint Firm investment practice, playing a core role in establishing the Footprint Fund and serving as board chair in several start-ups (Agrain, Klimate, Legacy) as well as leading several investment processes.

He especially thrives in diverse cultural and professional environments, as he has worked as an advisor and investor across the world and across multiple industries, with governments, academia, civil society and international organizations.

In 2011, he founded his own boutique consultancy as a response to the democratic movements in the Middle East and Africa that erupted in step with the Arab Spring revolutions. The company was later merged into Voluntas where Jakob has served as CEO and co-owner, as well as working with the advisory and investment sub-brands contributing to building the organization, growing the business as well as initiating new start-ups and establishing new offices. In 2008, Jakob co-founded the purpose-driven and renewable-only utility Natur-Energi, a company that was sold in 2017 after having built a significant client base.

Jakob holds a Master of Public Theory from University of Essex and a Master of Science in Political Science from the University of Aarhus. His former positions include CEO and Co-founder of Voluntas Group, including Voluntas Advisory and Voluntas Investment, Co-founder of Natur-Energi and other work with the World Bank, DanChurchAid and Epinion.