While grants can provide valuable support, they're unrecoverable, restrictive, and often involve lengthy, competitive, and highly structured application processes.
Grant Funding
Catalytic Capital
Catalytic Capital is a special kind of Impact Investment that fills the gaps in capital markets, providing flexible, mission-aligned funding through innovative vehicles like low-interest loans and blended capital to support long-term, sustainable growth.
“Catalytic capital is investment that accepts disproportionate risk and/or concessionary returns to generate positive impact and enable third-party investment that wouldn't otherwise occur.”
— Tideline 2019 Report “Catalytic Capital"
Venture Capital
Traditional VC exclusively funds the hypergrowth and exit potential of specific startups, pressuring impact ventures away from sustainable, long-term planning and growth.
Although Impact Investment prioritizes both measurable social or environmental impact in addition to financial returns, impact investors often function very similar to Venture Capital within an impact areva.