Catalytic Impact Foundation Fund

Who we are

The Catalytic Impact Foundation (CIF) is a 501c3 organization that aggregates philanthropic capital to make impact investments in early-stage life science and healthcare companies addressing unmet medical needs. Using an evergreen fund model, which CIF has coined “regenerative philanthropy”, returns from investments go back into the fund to be recycled for more impact. Billions of dollars are spent annually funding scientific research, but just a small fraction of that research ever leaves the lab, often due to lack of funding once the technology reaches the commercial stage of development. CIF works to address the funding gap for early-stage companies throughout North America, Europe and Israel, to help them through the “Valley of Death” and along the path to commercialization. We bring the discipline of venture capital investing to making impactful venture philanthropy investments.

Current UAM

<25M

Sectors

Biotech, Healthcare, Other

Stages

Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A

Regions

Europe, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), North America, South Asia and Central Asia

Countries

India, Ireland, Israel, UK, US

Founding / General Partners

Rachel Butler, Richard Lipkin, Rob Wolk

Why are we taking the Beyond The Billion Pledge?

The Catalytic Impact Foundation is taking the pledge because we believe that diversity drives innovation, and innovation suffers when more than 50% of the population struggle to access capital. We actively look for companies led by women (and other diverse leaders) with transformative technologies addressing unmet healthcare needs.

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TBDF Ventures LLC (TBDFV), the organizer of Beyond The Billion (BTB), is a company serving the global consortium of investors pledged to invest beyond $1bn collectively into women-founded technology companies and funds and firms that invest in them. BTB builds on the success of The Billion Dollar Fund for Women, the initial campaign co-founded by our founders. BTB is not a venture fund, an investment bank, a broker-dealer, investment clearinghouse, or an investment adviser, but rather a forum in which investors may be educated on aspects of investment and business, as well as introduced to companies for possible investment, in particular, those led by women. Each investor and allocator pledged to BTB’s mission is responsible for his or her own investment decisions, and neither TBDFV nor BTB recommends companies or financial products for investment. Participating funds may be highlighted to various institutional and other investors and managers, with the aim of catalyzing capital towards women-founded companies; but are not guaranteed allocations from any specific fund. The Founders of TBDFV and BTB may hold interests directly or indirectly in featured funds and associated companies. Information is obtained from participant funds, believed to be reliable, but is in no way guaranteed by TBDFV or BTB. No guarantee of any kind is implied or possible where projections of future conditions are attempted.