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Accelerating Breakthroughs by Funding Extraordinary Innovations and Visionary Leaders Addressing our Worlds Unmet Healthcare Needs The mission of the Catalytic Impact Foundation is to accelerate innovations in life sciences and healthcare funding companies that address unmet medical needs. By employing the discipline of traditional venture capital we invest philanthropic capital to support companies with transformative lifesustaining technologies. Bridging the Valley of Death Capital for earlystage companies can be difficult to obtain. There is often a funding gap between grants for research and forprofit investment.