Catalytic Capital for the Breakthroughs the World Needs
We are mobilizing donor capital in more catalytic, flexible, and venture-like ways to accelerate innovation across science, society, and systems. Meeting the moment for founders, for investors, for funds.
From translational science to new ownership models, we help donors build diversified, mission-aligned portfolios where capital compounds impact.
Activating Capital for Systemic Change
We are mobilizing donor capital in more catalytic, flexible, and venture-like ways to accelerate innovation across science, society, and systems. Meeting the moment for founders, for investors, for funds.
Rewiring Philanthropy as an Investable Future
We are mobilizing donor capital in more catalytic, flexible, and venture-like ways to accelerate innovation across science, society, and systems. Meeting the moment for founders, for investors, for funds.
Turning DAFs into Engines of change
We are mobilizing donor capital in more catalytic, flexible, and venture-like ways to accelerate innovation across science, society, and systems. Meeting the moment for founders, for investors, for funds.
Catalytic Capital Meets Modern Infrastructure
We are mobilizing donor capital in more catalytic, flexible, and venture-like ways to accelerate innovation across science, society, and systems. Meeting the moment for founders, for investors, for funds.
Breakthrough ideas often stall in the gap between research and real world impact.
Breakthrough ideas often stall in the gap between research and real world impact.
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
How We Work
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For Investors
Investor discipline + Philanthropic flexibility.
Build a diversified, mission-aligned alternatives portfolio
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Move DAF capital earlier, where it matters most
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Access curated, diligenced opportunities typically unavailable through legacy DAFs
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Full transparency, reporting, and recycling of capital
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Portfolio construction across themes, not one-off grants
For Founders & Nonprofits
We fund progress — not just proposals.
Flexible capital designed for early impact
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Non-dilutive or recoverable funding when venture capital isn’t ready
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Structures aligned to milestones, not growth-at-all-costs
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A funder who understands both mission and mechanics
For Research Labs
Designed for the messy middle.
Translate science beyond the lab
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Support for translational research and early commercialization
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Capital that bridges grants → validation → real-world deployment
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Structures that attract follow-on funders
For the Ecosystem
We build rails, not silos.
Infrastructure that moves the field forward
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A platform that complements foundations, DAF sponsors, and family offices
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Tools, structures, and reporting that reduce friction for everyone
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Models that can scale across donors and institutions
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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.
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