Discover the Impact potential of climate Tech

As the only free, comprehensive, and open-access software of its kind, CRANE empowers investors and entrepreneurs of all types to make objective decisions using science-based climate impact data.

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How CRANE can support you

Support investment decision-making

For Investors

Articulate GHG impact potential

For Entrepreneurs

Empower early-stage climate innovation

For Accelerators

CRANE By the Numbers

Since its launch in 2020, CRANE has enabled thousands of users globally to assess the potential impact of ventures, technologies, solutions, and business models — supporting informed investment decisions, from pre-investment sourcing and screening to post-investment tracking.

5,500+

Registered users assessing forward-looking GHG impact.

200+

Technology models ready for assessment and customization.

123,500+

CRANE reports generated since 2020

Some organizations that have used CRANE for their forward-looking climate impact assessments:

Organization Testimonials

Following a science-backed, consensus-built emissions impact methodology

CRANE follows Project Frame’s forward-looking emissions impact guidance to create models that help direct capital towards the most impactful climate technologies.

Diagram of the equation behind CRANE's impact methodology: Net Unit Impact X Volume = GHG Impact

Learn About CRANE's Methodology

"It’s a great way to get together with our investees and discuss: What does the impact look like? What are the assumptions? What does the market look like?"

Jean Shia
Managing Director, Impact Investment and Management
Autodesk Foundation
"Elemental Impact is excited to use CRANE as a “common app” for startups in our pipeline and portfolio to calculate their climate impact without specialized consultants or bespoke analyses. It’s also helpful for us to be on the same page with co-investors."

Dawn Lippert
CEO and Founder
Elemental Impact
"Breakthrough Energy supports innovations that get the world to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. CRANE makes it possible for investors, governments, and innovators to identify transformational solutions to avoid a climate catastrophe."

Jonah Goldman
Managing Director
Breakthrough Energy
"The CRANE tool helps us measure the GHG emission reduction potential of an array of cross-sector technologies with a standard approach and rigour."

Susan Rohac
Managing Partner
The Climate Tech Fund at BDC Capital
"If a company can properly frame the goals they are working towards, they are more likely to achieve them. Furthermore, successful startups will eventually become public companies subject to clear GHG accounting and reporting standards and need to be able to track their operations internally and validate the output with external auditors. We believe in introducing these guidelines and relevant tools, [like CRANE], early to set companies and teams on the right track for long-term financial security, and to maximize their carbon reduction potential."

Manav Gupta
CEO and Founder
Brinc
"Newlab is accelerating solutions that will drastically reduce emissions by replacing legacy technologies with more sustainable ones, and by delivering carbon removal technologies at scale. We used the CRANE tool to predict the likely impact of this new tech coming to market, and what we learned was inspiring. Newlab startups are on track to have an annual impact of 2.63 gigatons of reduced emissions in 2050."

Cam Lawrence
CEO
Newlab

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