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Generation Investment Management seeks to stamp AI with a mandate for sustainability. Artificial intelligence has been called the technology shift of a lifetime. For Generation Investment Management, it could also be the sustainability shift of, well, a generation. Call it the inconvenient truth about artificial intelligence. Amid the rush of frontier models and data center construction, questions of sustainability are rising to the top of investors’ diligence and estimations. Generation’s Al Gore, who two decades ago brought climate change into the mainstream with “An Inconvenient Truth,” is urging investors to take on the sustainability of the AI transformation, including energy and water impacts, and governance and equity as well. At the SuperReturn conference in Berlin last month, Gore told investors, “We really have to face up to the fact that this technology is advancing so quickly that it is going to challenge not only business models but societal models, civilization models, cultural models.”
GPs and LPs investing in ethical and responsible tech. ImpactAlpha is tracking more than 40 GPs with funds investing in responsible tech, good AI and deep tech. Investor appetite is growing, with over 70 LPs backing those funds through 100 allocations.
CalPERS-backed Inox Clean Energy gets funding from Indian family office to ramp up renewables development. Inox Clean Energy is the renewable energy business of Indian conglomerate INOXGFL Group. The energy company manufactures solar modules and cells, then feeds those into a pipeline of renewable projects that supply power to commercial and industrial customers, energy exchanges and other buyers. Within the next two years, the company is looking to expand its solar manufacturing capacity from about six gigawatts to more than 11 gigawatts, and its portfolio of solar and wind assets from about three gigawatts to 15 gigawatts. To support its growth plans, Inox Clean Energy has been snapping up companies, land and capital. Its latest backer is the family office of Adar Poonawalla, whose father founded the global vaccine giant Serum Institute of India (Adar is the current CEO). The family office invested seven billion rupees ($73.3 million) in Inox Clean Energy via its investment group Rising Sun Holdings.
New and bigger funds expand the ‘alternative ownership’ ecosystem. An updated database of “alternative ownership enterprises” reflects a financing ecosystem that is ever more varied in the types of capital deployed, the scale of vehicles, and the places they serve. Since 2024, Transform Finance has built a fund database for such AOEs – firms that significantly shift economic value and decision-making power to the non-investor stakeholders they impact, such as workers, producers, consumers, community members or even a non-financial purpose. “Its variety – many models, many kinds of capital, many scales and places – that will help [the ecosystem] innovate, endure and let more workers, producers and communities share in the ownership of the businesses that influence their lives,” Transform Finance’s Julie Menter writes in a guest post. Transform Finance and ImpactAlpha have worked together to build out a dataset of Ownership Economy funds on ImpactAlpha Edge, including home ownership, community ownership and employee ownership.
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