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The 2026 Goldman Sachs Analyst Impact Fund Finals

Asahi Pompei, David Fagenbaum, Gavin McCormick, Julie, Juan Caballero, Richie, Megha, Katharina, Adeline, Zanya, Kai, Helena, Gaspar, Pablo Salame, Julian

Earnings Call, Conference Presentation
  • Goldman Sachs seeks to leverage its technologically sophisticated analyst class to form strategic partnerships with nonprofits developing AI-driven solutions, with immediate award decisions expected within one hour determining the distribution of $500,000 in funding.
  • EveryCure plans to utilize a $250,000 grant to expand its medical research team to annually review 2,000 drug-disease matches, aiming to repurpose generic drugs 5 times faster and 500 times cheaper than traditional development to address market incentive gaps.
  • WattTime targets the creation of a public AI emissions benchmark by 2027, leveraging a $250,000 grant distributed across four quarters in 2027 to build an AI emissions index that measures and ranks emissions across three-quarters of global AI labs to achieve a 10% reduction in emissions.
  • Thorne's Project Prevent is a four-phase initiative designed to make children's images resistant to AI manipulation at the source, with a goal to protect over 83 million CSAM photos within five years and a $30,000 investment to develop the "Thorn Search" chatbot.
  • BuildChange intends to scale its retrofit program to serve 4 million people in unsafe housing in the Philippines and 6 million people in West Java, Indonesia, by September 2027, with 70% of budgets allocated to workforce training and 30% to enhancing AI capabilities for home damage assessment.
  • Up to 40% of the world is projected to lack adequate and safe housing by 2030, while data centers are expected to consume energy equivalent to New York City's annual consumption for 18 years by 2030, driving investment priorities in resilient infrastructure and clean energy sourcing.
  • The impact of these investments is projected to be substantial, with estimates suggesting every Goldman Sachs dollar invested could result in $600 in climate damage avoided, while each grant focuses on shifting operational strategies upstream to prevention and systemic resilience.