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Gro Intelligence secures $85m to create business benchmarks for climate risk

by Blessing Ubani
Gro Intelligence secures $85m to create business benchmarks for climate risk

Gro has developed the world’s largest AI-powered climate & food security and security knowledge platform

As businesses, as well as regulatory authorities increasingly, see climate change as a business threat, A data company Gro Intelligence is developing indexes that can track climate threats in a granular manner and recreate a brand-new class of financial investments.

Gro Intelligence is developing indexes to gauge conditions like drought, floods, as well as temperature level, according to Sara Menker, the founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Gro Intelligence.

” Our software application can aggregates 46 variables right into a single procedure of drought severity on a scale of zero to 5″ These indexes, in addition to a new $85 million fund-raising round that Gro announced are the most recent indications of the financial industry initiatives to generate money from ecological initiatives.

More investors are stacking right into a climate-focused sector, because of the massive opportunities that lie in climate-linked financial products.

Gro additionally added a new board member Gary Cohn, the previous Goldman Sachs president who stated that “Universally trusted and transparent data” is important as companies are required to disclose more about their climate risks.

Amongst Gro’s clients is Unilever, that currently uses Gro’s data for its sustainability procedures.

Gro’s larger ambition for its indexes is to encourage a new universe of financial instruments, that companies and investors can use to hedge climate risks, catastrophe bonds and even exchange-traded funds.

Sara Menker said she could not predict what else could be built on the indexes:  “Our dream as a company is to have many applications that come on top of Gro.”

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