Your trusted partner in facilitating carbon market debt financing.
Software infrastructure and support to develop novel financial products that securely channel funding at scale to carbon removal projects.
Connect with our team of experts to learn how KUMO can help you engage in the thriving carbon market.
A Successful Model
In our proven carbon-backed debt financing model, project developers post future carbon credits on Kumo's platform where they’re turned into legal collateral. Kumo takes legal custody over the credits, and the collateral can then be used by the capital provider to secure a loan and reduce investment risk.
Our automated liquidation schemes and monitoring solutions provide an additional layer of protection for the capital provider's principal. As part of the secure loan intermediation, Kumo curates deals based on data aggregation and assessments, and optimizes the flow of capital through a standardized legal framework.
The Time to Participate in Carbon Removal is Now
The Convergence of Carbon Markets is Driving a $1.2 Trillion Industry
500%
CAGR for the carbon market
$3.16B
Off-take demand
>400
Durable CO2 suppliers
The Convergence of Carbon Markets Catalyzes a Trillion Dollar CDR Market
What We Offer
Project Onboarding & Assessment
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Kumo's onboarding software automates the process of gathering, structuring, and assessing project data. Rather than conducting manual project-specific work yourself, you can level up with data that is digitized, standardized, and available for all projects in one place.
Build on top of Kumo's Financeability Framework to assess a project’s finance-specific risk and benchmark against Kumo's indices of project cost profiles and more.
Project Comparison and Benchmarking
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Kumo’s comparison tool lets investors benchmark projects against index data and within portfolios. The indices, based on public and proprietary data, focus on cost profiles, performance, and carbon market sentiment. With visual and table comparisons, it streamlines due diligence, portfolio construction, and de-risking using specialized carbon finance data.
Enhanced Efficiency with Better Data
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Kumo's Data Hub provides tailored project assessment data, focusing on cash flows, developer performance, market sentiment, pricing, and liquidity. Access to carbon market and project-specific benchmarking data based on public and proprietary data sets for enhanced project assessments.
Access Vetted Deal Flow
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Kumo employs a comprehensive pre-deal assessment of data obtained directly from project developers. This financial-focused analysis, conducted using our proprietary financeability framework, ensures project offerings listed on the Kumo site reach a threshold of quality required to allow them to consider access to debt capital.
Ability to Monitor the Projects You Fund Post-Issuance
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Our platform ensures transparent post-issuance monitoring with 24/7 access to project updates, financial performance, and adjusted forecast models. Benefit from clear visibility, automated default mitigation to protect investments, and streamlined data for TCFD and SFDR reporting.
De-Risking with Carbon as Legal Collateral
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Kumo's tokenization of carbon credits creates a legal wrapper that transforms them into secure legal collateral to back loans. This innovation allows institutional finance to improve its risk-weighted requirements under capital requirement regulations and free up regulatory capital.
New Debt Investment Products for Bond Issuance
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Kumo enables packaging CDR projects into one financing vehicle (Special Purpose Vehicle) in order to issue lower risk bonds backed by cash flows from carbon credit sales, off-take agreements, and additional revenue streams. This de-risks investor participation, and allows project developers to access institutional debt finance at a lower cost.
Greater Security with Lender Protection
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In the case of a loan default, Kumo protects lenders through liquidation mechanisms for carbon credits used as collateral. In the near future, we will offer a first-loss guarantee to further protect your investment.
Benefits for Capital Providers
Improve project assessment with access to structured data, easy project comparison and Kumo's Financeability Framework tailored for debt investors
Reduce structuring, issuance, and lifecycle management costs by up to 80% via Kumo's automation technology
Generate double-digit returns while minimizing risk with simple collateral management
