Generation Investment Management

Generation Investment Management (Generation IM) is a sustainable investment management firm founded in 2004; its co-founders included former US Vice President Al Gore and former Goldman Sachs' Asset Management head David Blood, along with five other founders,[1] with a vision to see long-term sustainable investing become best practice and for sustainable capitalism to become the enduring economic model.[2]

Generation operates four strategies, investing both public and private equity: Global Equity, Asia Equity, Growth Equity and Private Equity;[3] alongside a climate-led investing business, Just Climate.[4]

Generation has offices in London and San Francisco,[5] and as of 2025, employed over 100 people.[6] Generation Investment Management LLP is authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK.

Generation has built a global research platform to integrate sustainability research into fundamental equity analysis.[7]

History

Generation was founded in April 2004 by a group of seven founding partners led by Al Gore and David Blood.[8] Its goal was integrating the disciplines of finance and sustainability.

In 2021 Generation launched Just Climate, a climate-led investment business aiming to address the net-zero challenge at scale.[9] It closed its inaugural Climate Assets Fund I in 2023, raising $1.5 billion.[10]

Partnerships

• Net Zero Asset Managers initiative [11]
• The Climate Pledge[12]
• Ceres[13]
• The Alliance for Climate Protection (Repower America)
• World Resources Institute
• Natural Resources Defense Council
• The Climate Project

Investments

Investments by Generation funds include:

• Octopus Energy[14]
• Proterra[15]

External links

• Generation Investment Management Profile from the Financial Times (requires log-in)
• For People and For Planet, a 3/28/06 op-ed in The Wall Street Journal by Al Gore and David Blood
• We Need Sustainable Capitalism, an 11/5/08 op-ed in The Wall Street Journal by Al Gore and David Blood
• When Principles Aid Performance, an article about the firm from the Financial Times, April 2007
• Generation Announces Plans For New Investment Management Firm, the November 2004 press release
• SEC Regulatory Information and Disclosed Holdings
• Al Gore and David Blood interviewed by WIRED, April 2018