Tideline announces a strategic partnership with Rho Impact to elevate climate impact forecasting.
New York, NY – October 15, 2024 – Tideline, a leading impact advisory firm with over a decade of experience supporting investors deploying over $200 billion in impact assets, is pleased to announce its strategic partnership with Rho Impact, a leading developer of climate impact forecasting technology.
Rho will serve as Tideline’s exclusive partner in forecasting avoided emissions, focusing on deploying Rho’s Koi Platform with Tideline’s institutional clients. Koi enables investors to rapidly quantify the potential impact of real assets and activities, leveraging data on over 10,000 technology applications, and empowering smarter, faster, climate-focused decisions. Koi builds on Rho’s leadership as the creator of CRANE, an open-access tool stewarded by Prime Coalition with more than 5,000 global users forecasting potential emissions reduction from emerging technologies.
This partnership strengthens Tideline’s ability to support clients in assessing investments in climate technologies and decarbonization strategies while meeting regulatory compliance requirements and demonstrating their contribution to the net-zero transition.
Over the last several years, Tideline has identified a significant gap in the market’s capacity to fully understand, interpret, and direct investments based on their potential to reduce emissions over time. As demand for effective climate solutions intensifies, investors increasingly require the ability to forecast avoided emissions alongside measuring realized emissions.
In three years of working with Rho Impact, Tideline has benefited from the firm’s market-leading modeling and forecasting services. Earlier this year, Rho Impact launched Koi, which is notable for its ability to enable investors to assess emissions avoidance at scale—from entire portfolios down to individual companies deploying single technologies. Tideline believes Koi will enable a step change in the ability of investors to make informed, climate-positive decisions that support real-world decarbonization efforts.
“The collaboration underscores Tideline’s dedication to leading the impact investment market toward more data-driven, sustainable outcomes. Rho Impact’s Koi represents a breakthrough in our ability to advise our clients towards competitive and impactful climate strategies,” said Ben Thornley, Managing Partner and co-Founder at Tideline. “This partnership allows us to offer unparalleled emissions avoidance data, ensuring that our clients can confidently allocate capital to the most promising climate solutions.”
“Rho Impact is thrilled to deepen our partnership with Tideline by expanding the reach of Koi to a broader audience of institutional investors. Together, we can accelerate the transition to a decarbonized economy, enabling investors to directly forecast the net-zero potential of their portfolios across diverse asset classes, asset managers, and technology pathways,” said Gilman Callsen, Rho Impact Founder & CEO. “We aim to drive a strategic shift from backward-looking accounting practices to forward-looking, impact-oriented decision making.”
About Tideline
Tideline is a women-owned, specialist consulting firm that provides tailored advice to clients developing impact investing strategies, products, and solutions. Since 2014, Tideline has delivered a wide range of advisory services, including business and investment strategy design, product development, due diligence, customized research, and impact management and measurement to allocators and managers deploying over $200 billion in impact capital. Tideline’s clients span large private foundations, wealth management firms, investment managers, pension funds, insurers, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, healthcare institutions, community and international development finance institutions, and non-governmental organizations. Learn more at www.tideline.com.
About Rho Impact
Rho Impact is a leader in providing tools and data to forecast the impact of climate technologies. Its flagship product, Koi (www.koi.eco), empowers investors with on-demand avoided emissions calculations, enabling climate-positive investment decisions at both the portfolio and technology levels. Rho Impact is also a key contributor to CRANE (www.cranetool.org), a free, open-access platform that helps innovators and investors quantify the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by emerging technologies. Together, Koi and CRANE equip companies and capital allocators with the insights needed to drive decarbonization and meet net-zero goals. Learn more at www.rhoimpact.com.
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