Powering the World's
Net-Zero Future
Rho Impact is built upon over a decade of solving real-world problems with data science, practitioner experience, and software engineering.
As climate change and social inequalities continue to intensify, we firmly believe that organizations around the world have an obligation to act and occupy a central role in many viable solutions. This drives our mission to empower every organization to make an impact so we can build toward a future where humanity thrives. Read on to learn a little more about Rho Impact, our origin story, and see some of the ways we try to make a direct impact through pro bono and volunteer work.
Rho Impact's flagship data product, Koi , builds upon our deep experience developing forecasting techniques and methodologies. Koi is the world's most comprehensive data and modeling suite to project the impact of new climate technologies as they replace incumbent solutions.
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.
Our experience with avoided emissions (Scope 4) and emissions reduction forecasting for early-stage ventures revealed the need to reliably forecast the impact of "all" technologies. When all market participants have access to radically transparent and auditable data, the market can more efficiently allocate capital to the most promising climate solutions. We are building a foundation of our decarbonized future.
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.
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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