ZORA Ventures and Rho Impact Partner to Advance Climate Innovation and Investment in Israel
ZORA Ventures, an early-stage deep tech investor focused on the Israeli climate innovation space, is proud to announce a new strategic partnership with Rho Impact, a leader in climate impact forecasting technology. Together, the two organizations aim to build the climate investment infrastructure needed to scale Israeli climate solutions across global industries—equipping investors and entrepreneurs alike with the tools and insights required to drive measurable decarbonization.
Through this collaboration, ZORA Ventures and Rho Impact will champion the adoption of advanced climate impact forecasting tools, starting with the deployment of Rho's flagship platform, Koi (www.koi.eco)—a market-leading tool for forecasting the avoided emissions potential of climate solutions. Koi empowers investors, innovators, and enterprises to quantify the greenhouse gas impact of climate technologies, enabling faster, more confident, and forward-looking decisions aligned with net-zero goals.
"Israel's deeptech ecosystem offers unparalleled R&D capable of addressing our planet's largest challenge - climate change," said Vanessa Bartram, Founder at ZORA Ventures. "Our partnership with Rho Impact allows us to embed rigorous, standardized climate impact forecasting into our investment process, helping us and our entrepreneurs accelerate both commercial and climate impact. We believe Rho's Koi platform is a critical piece of infrastructure for commercializing game-changing, Israeli climate solutions across industries."
"Rho Impact is thrilled to partner with ZORA Ventures to accelerate the deployment of Israeli climate solutions around the world," said Noah Miller, Co-Founder & Chief Advisory Officer of Rho Impact. "ZORA's experience in and reputation with the Israeli climate tech ecosystem is unparalleled. Their commitment to commercializing market-based solutions to industry-specific climate challenges matches our commitment to help the best climate solutions win. Together, we aim to equip investors and entrepreneurs with the actionable insights needed to catalyze real-world decarbonization at scale."
As part of the partnership, ZORA Ventures will leverage Rho Impact's tools to co-host live demonstrations and workshops with entrepreneurs, investors, and other stakeholders in the Israeli climate tech ecosystem. ZORA Ventures recently debuted Koi and the underlying methodology alongside Deloitte Israel for the Israeli energy tech community, Ignite The Spark. ZORA will continue to spearhead educational initiatives and communications to promote avoided emissions as the de-facto 'gold standard' for measuring the potential future impact of emerging climate technologies - both within Israel and abroad.
About ZORA Ventures
ZORA Ventures backs Israel's leading scientists and founders designing deeptech B2B solutions to the world's most acute climate challenges. Our teams develop climate solutions to be deployed by the world's largest companies across massive markets in order to ignite rapid change at unprecedented scale. This strategy is core to delivering on our mission to offset or remove a cumulative gigaton of CO2e by 2040, together with our portfolio of Israel's brightest climate tech entrepreneurs. Learn more at www.zora.vc.