Rachel Butler, President, Catalytic Impact Foundation
- Rachel Butler is the president of The Catalytic Impact Foundation, an organization that invests in early-stage life science companies that address unmet medical needs.
- With an emphasis on Women’s and Children’s health, Rachel helped her organization launch a unique platform called “regenerative philanthropy.”
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Overview
The health of women and children is vital to creating a healthy world. Despite great progress, there are still too many mothers and children dying—mostly from causes that could have been prevented. Today we have Rachel Butler, the President of the Catalytic Impact Foundation (CIF) on our podcast. CIF is a unique type of organization that integrates philanthropy and venture capital to develop cures for diseases that are often overlooke
00:24- About Rachel Butler
- Rachel Butler is the president of The Catalytic Impact Foundation, an organization that invests in early-stage life science companies that address unmet medical needs.
- With an emphasis on Women’s and Children’s health, Rachel helped her organization launch a unique platform called “regenerative philanthropy.”
- Using donated capital and an evergreen model, CIF makes impact investments in cutting-edge companies.
- Returns go back into the fund to be recycled for more impact, resulting in a platform that is targeted, impactful, and scalable.
01:48- How do you work and what kind of investment you are making?
- The atalytic Impact Foundation is a not-for-profit organization.
- We bring in donated capital and the donors get the tax advantages for that.
- We use that donated capital to invest in early-stage companies that are developing technology to address the world’s greatest healthcare problems.
- We do not do grants but equity investments. We run it like an early-stage venture capital fund.
- Children’s health is a huge area for us. There are only a few technologies developed that focus on children’s health.
- Every time a child gets sick, they’re being experimented on, because they don’t know what drug works best, they don’t know what the dosage should be, what the length of time should be.
- 4% of health research funding goes to funding women’s health, and only 1% of venture capital funding goes to companies that are developing for women’s health.
15:43- Personal background
- My background is entrepreneurial, I’ve launched, built and sold two companies.
- The second one was when my children were young and one of my sons, had quite severe asthma and allergies, both food allergies and respiratory allergies.
- The asthma was such an issue that despite our being fairly knowledgeable, having resources, and having great health care, we could not keep him out of the hospital.
- It occurred to me that if I was struggling to get excellent information, then certainly there is a large community out there that also needs information.
- And so with that launched something called asthma magazine, which is a patient education publication, geared toward helping patients and their families.
- We ended up selling the magazine to Elsevier Health Sciences.
- I have always had a passion for healthcare, science, medicine, and research.
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- Rachel Butler is the president of The Catalytic Impact Foundation, an organization that invests in early-stage life science companies that address unmet medical needs.
- With an emphasis on Women’s and Children’s health, Rachel helped her organization launch a unique platform called “regenerative philanthropy.”
- Using donated capital and an evergreen model, CIF makes impact investments in cutting-edge companies.
- Returns go back into the fund to be recycled for more impact, resulting in a platform that is targeted, impactful, and scalable.
