We Help the
Best Climate Solutions Win
Advancing climate solutions takes conviction, commitment, and courage. We collaborate with the world's most innovative organizations to scale solutions with the highest likelihood of genuine impact.
This drives our mission to help climate solutions win so we can build a sustainable future where both humanity and this planet thrive. Read on to learn more about Rho Impact, our origin story, and how we make direct contributions to the field.
We have spent the last decade obsessing over a foundational question: "what impact will technologies have as they scale?" This question is central to addressing the climate crisis and is why this team has logged countless hours collaborating, researching, and iterating on ways to most efficiently and reliably forecast the climate impact of solutions big and small.
What have we learned? Markets need radically transparent and auditable data, they need to trust forecasts that are all inherently guesses, and they need to do this much faster than they currently are. In order to more efficiently scale the most promising climate solutions, we need to move a lot of capital.
We are focused on building a foundational platform to unblock these massive flows of capital and ensure that it moves to teams and technologies with the best chance of making an impact. We have our work cut out for us but we believe in the innovators and forward-thinking investors who are tirelessly building the next generation of incredible solutions.
"Rho's expertise and capabilities are only rivaled by their passion for the work and commitment to meaningful outcomes. If you're seeking to maximize both your commercial opportunities and impact on the world, I highly recommend partnering with Rho."
The path to impact
In 2012, we began delivering real-world solutions by building "Pit Rho" (acquired by GM), an innovative set of AI tools and infrastructure used to predict and forecast optimal race strategy in real-time during motorsports events.
As we matured in applying data science and software engineering across the fields of energy, finance, healthcare, and others, we recognized an internal motivation was solidifying to use these core competencies to help solve some of the world's bigger problems.
Our involvement in what is now the CRANE Tool was the result of our partnership with Prime Coalition, which has long been a foundational leader in advancing the field of catalytic capital. In 2017 Prime and NYSERDA published a seminal report entitled, "Climate Impact Assessment for Early-Stage Ventures," in which they laid the foundation for everything that has been built today.
In 2018 we made the decision to dedicate a significant portion of our team to climate-focused projects. By 2020 we knew it was time to fully commit and in 2021 we spun out Rho Impact as a new company with a simple mission baked into its name: to empower every organization to make an impact.
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