We make climate data usable at scale.
Advancing climate solutions takes conviction, commitment, and courage. It also takes investment. We see a major gap in how global capital is deployed to climate solutions.
This drives our mission: get more capital to the best climate solutions, faster.Investment in even proven technologies lags what's needed. For emerging solutions, the challenge is acute—credible data exists, but rarely in formats that enable confident investment decisions. We believe that when global finance has access to decision-grade climate data, it will accelerate deployment of solutions with the highest likelihood of genuine impact. 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: "How do we evaluate climate solutions with both speed and rigor?" 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 answer it for solutions big and small.
What have we learned? Markets need radically transparent and auditable data. They need confidence in forecasts that are inherently uncertain. And they need to act much faster. To scale the most promising climate solutions, we need to move a lot of capital.
We are building foundational infrastructure to accelerate these capital flows and direct them toward 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 by building "Pit Rho" (acquired by GM), a platform for real-time predictive analytics in motorsports. The challenge—forecasting optimal race strategy under uncertainty—taught us how to build systems that turn complex data into confident decisions.
As we applied data science and software engineering across energy, finance, healthcare, and other sectors, we recognized a shared motivation: use these competencies to help solve larger problems.
Our partnership with Prime Coalition led to the CRANE Tool, which has served the climate solutions community since 2020. Prime and NYSERDA's seminal report in 2017, "Climate Impact Assessment for Early-Stage Ventures," laid the foundation for climate impact assessment—and CRANE became the field's first and only free, open-access implementation.
In 2018 we dedicated significant resources to climate-focused work. By 2020 we knew it was time to fully commit. In 2021 we spun out Rho Impact with a focused mission: accelerate capital to the best climate solutions. Today, that mission is realized through Koi, essential climate data infrastructure. CRANE lives on as Koi's free tier, ensuring the community always has access to foundational climate assessment capabilities.
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