CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Prime Coalition and Rho Impact said they have expanded their partnership to provide free access to investor-grade climate impact data, making advanced emissions modeling tools more widely available to investors, entrepreneurs, and organizations supporting climate innovation.
Under the expanded collaboration, key features of Prime’s CRANE tool are now available at no cost through Rho Impact’s climate impact modeling platform, Koi. CRANE, launched in 2020, was described by the organizations as the world’s first forward-looking emissions impact software. By integrating CRANE into Koi, the partners aim to remove barriers to credible climate impact assessment and improve decision-making across the climate investment ecosystem.
Despite rising levels of investment in climate technology, the organizations said many investment teams still lack the internal capacity or reliable data needed to rigorously evaluate potential solutions and forecast their emissions impact. Even well-resourced teams often face challenges accessing transparent and trustworthy datasets for climate modeling.
Prime and Rho Impact said the expanded partnership is intended to address those gaps. CRANE is based on a methodology developed by a global community of climate investors convened by Prime, while Koi hosts a growing data lake and more than 6,000 verified climate solution models. Through the free CRANE tier on Koi, users can model greenhouse gas emissions avoided or removed by emerging climate technologies.
The expansion marks a new phase in the evolution of CRANE, which since its launch has been used by more than 6,000 users and has generated over 125,000 emissions impact assessment reports.
“As the need to mitigate climate change increases, it is critical that we continue to reduce barriers to credible climate impact assessment and make it easier for those deploying capital to make informed decisions,” said Prime Coalition Chief Growth Officer Keri Browder. “We are proud of our longstanding partnership with Rho Impact, which allows us to make this happen.”
“Climate capital isn’t constrained by intent. It is constrained by fragmented, opaque, and incompatible data,” said Gilman Callsen, founder and chief executive officer of Rho Impact. “We are building foundational climate data infrastructure for informed investing, and the CRANE free tier ensures continuity from the earliest startups through the world’s largest institutional investors.”
