FOR FUNDS
Catalytic capital for the breakthroughs the world needs.
Neta mobilizes donor capital in catalytic, flexible, and venture-like ways, moving breakthroughs from lab to life, where markets alone won't.
$38MM+
activated across donor-advised funds
43
donor-investors deploying capital
Returns
recycle back to your fund to give again
THE GAP
Neta funds and supports innovations that advance human wellbeing and planetary resilience but are too early, too complex, or too unconventional for traditional capital. Through catalytic funding and aligned partnerships, we help move solutions from lab to life, complementing the rest of the capital stack rather than replacing it.
Breakthrough ideas often stall in the gap between research and real-world impact.
WHY NETA
Investor discipline.
Philanthropic flexibility.
Most DAFs hold your capital in the market. Neta puts it to work, deploying it into breakthroughs, and the upside recycles back to fund the next one.
Transparency & recycling
Track everything in your dashboard. When capital returns, it recycles into your DAF to deploy again.
Flexible structures
Equity, recoverable grants, royalties, or loans. Each GrantVestment fits the opportunity.
Speed
Decisions and deployment in weeks, not quarters. Move when the opportunity is live.
Portfolio construction
Build a diversified, mission-aligned portfolio across themes, not one-off grants.
Neta exist to close the research-to-real-world funding gap.
We fund and support innovations that advance human wellbeing and planetary resilience - but are too early, too complex, or too unconventional for traditional capital.
Through catalytic funding and aligned partnerships, we help move solutions from lab to life by:
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Supporting translational science and early commercialization
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Backing new ownership and agency models that reshape who benefits from progress
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Advancing health, sustainability, and system-level resilience
Our role: provide the infrastructure that allows these breakthroughs to move - faster, earlier, and with discipline.
Outcomes we drive
Innovation infrastructure & field-building
Earth Systems
Planetary resilience
New agency & ownership models
Translational science & early commercialization
Health & disease
What I love about the GrantVestment™ model is that it does two things. First, it lets me support research that’s high-risk but on a clear path to commercialization - sitting in that sweet spot between traditional grants and venture-backed companies. Second, it creates a virtuous cycle: when there’s a return, the money flows back into my DAF, and I can fund the next round of projects. It mirrors how startups work - you build, reinvest, and grow the ecosystem. It’s the same idea, but applied to philanthropy.
Severin Hacker
Investor & Donor
Co-Founder of Duolingo
Get to Know Us
Neta’s leadership combines scientific insight, financial innovation, and creative execution to move breakthrough ideas from lab to life. Danielle Capalino blends neuroscience and philanthropy to design catalytic models for early-stage science. Alon Lederman brings three decades in capital markets and venture structuring to engineer scalable pathways for impact. Together with an advisory board spanning finance, philanthropy, and innovation, they are building the architecture for a new asset class - where capital works with conviction and the future gets funded.
Our Partners
Capital doesn’t need to choose between impact and discipline.
It needs better infrastructure.
Neta makes it possible for philanthropic capital to move earlier, work harder, and compound over time - where markets alone won’t.
If you’re an investor navigating the gap between conviction and deployment, we’d love to talk.
Neta
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