Launching the Clean AI Initiative

Just over two decades ago, I commercialized the “cleantech” concept, bringing to life a worldwide community of innovators, investors, and related stakeholders focused on environmental sustainability. As “Mr. Cleantech”, I put my venture investing activities on hold to evangelize and organize a global community focused on “clean-by-design” rather than the stale “clean-up” mentality of the previous envirotech era. While cleantech 1.0 resulted in tough learning, it was an essential step forward to today’s more robust “climatetech” or cleantech 2.0 ecosystem. Since stepping away from Cleantech Group a decade ago, I’ve been backing ventures that harness next generation cleantech with secular innovation such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, social enterprise and impact investing at scale.

I’ve backed emerging companies from California to Kenya. Two investees were named to the TIME100 Most Influential Company list in 2023. Nearly all use smart digital technology to deliver sustainability solutions previously unimaginable, let alone viable. Which brings me to CleanAI.

My own venturing experience has illustrated the enormous potential of AI in enabling the clean economy transition. It's an unexpected force-multiplier in the race to net-zero yet has received little attention. Until now!

The Clean AI Initiative is being publicly launched this week. We’re on a mission to help reduce GHG emissions by ten per cent over the coming ten years by shining a light on how AI is enabling and differentiating cleantech ventures – “cleanAI”, building a network of stakeholders and facilitating the international scaling of solutions. We’ve started with "Cleaning Up with AI", a baseline study covering nearly $30 Billion invested in cleanAI ventures since 2018. The US, UK and Canada are the top three jurisdictions. We're also hosting the world’s first Global CleanAI Summit in Toronto on June 17th.

More information at www.cleanai.com or via our PR: https://www.einpresswire.com/article/693822186/ai-innovation-a-potential-game-changer-in-advancing-clean-eco.

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