Did you know you can donate to venture capital funds and startups?
Historically, donating to venture capital funds and startups—whether with cash or through donor-advised funds—has been cumbersome.
Today, CataCap makes donating as simple as placing an e-commerce order, unlocking access to an estimated $325B in donor-advised funds across the United States. This innovation enables you to have a dual impact: your donations support mission-driven startups and venture capital funds tackling critical challenges, and any potential returns can be redeployed into new opportunities on CataCap or donated to another nonprofit.
On CataCap, you receive the same terms as other investors in a fund or startup financing round—making it an excellent way for you, as an investor-philanthropist, to “practice” investing. être invites you to join its venture capital education classes, designed to close knowledge gaps, along with its “training wheels” fund, which helps women and minority investors build confidence in venture capital.
être is currently soft-circling donors, allowing you to express interest without committing funds. Once $25K is soft-circled, you’ll receive a link to fund your commitment. At $50K, your funds are transferred and deployed into the current fund.
Donations to être’s venture capital fund—whether via cash (credit card, ACH, stock) or a donor-advised fund—create three impacts:
- Your tax-deductible donation supports vital technologies developed by overlooked founders.
- Potential returns will increase your philanthropic giving.
- You’ll become an investor—a limited partner in être’s current fund—and gain firsthand experience in how venture capital works: how funds operate, how investment decisions are made, how we help startups scale and exits.
Align your charitable giving with impact investing.
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