Matterport - 1792 Exchange

Rating Overview

Matterport is Medium Risk.

Matterport, Inc. is Medium Risk. The company often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. The company occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

Rating Criteria

Corporate Weaponization Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Cancellations	Medium Risk
Discriminatory Philanthropy	Lower Risk
Employment Protection	High Risk

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

Corporate Governance and Public Policy Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Advocacy Bias	High Risk
Funding	Lower Risk
Political Actions	No Data

Corporate Governance and Public Policy ⓘ

Rating Criteria Detail

Criteria Risk Level Rationale

Corporate Weaponization

Criteria:

Has canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

Matterport integrates ESG into its business practices. From its 2023 ESG Report: “ESG is embedded throughout our business.” (1). The company promotes divisive sex and gender policies. Its Supplier Code of Conduct requires international vendors to include sexual orientation and gender identity in their nondiscrimination policy (2). However, the company has not canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (3).

Criteria:

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Matterport does not appear to discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or beliefs (1).

Criteria:

Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Matterport requires its employees to take unconscious bias and DEI training (1). The company appears to prioritize diversity over merit in its promotions and leadership composition. From its 2023 ESG Report: “We focus on advancing diversity at all levels across the organization, including the representation of women and minorities in leadership positions” (2). The company protects its employees against viewpoint discrimination (3).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Matterport is committed to net zero emissions by 2050 (1). The company supports DEI within its business practices. From its 2023 ESG Report: “At Matterport, we are committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive workplace and workforce rooted in trust, fairness, empathy, respect, transparency, and accountability” (2). Matterport supports ESG within its business practices. From its 2023 ESG Report: “Our holistic approach to ESG results in a positive impact on the planet, the people whose lives we touch, and our bottom line. In 2023, we continued to assess our ESG data and leveraged our internal ESG subcommittee responsible for stakeholder input and alignment to further develop our ESG targets” (3).

Criteria:

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Matterport has not used corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (1).

Criteria:

Uses corporate political actions and/or financial contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level:

N/A

Rationale:

Matterport does not operate a PAC or engage in lobbying at this time (1)(2)(3).