CHICAGO (Oct. 13, 2026)—The Catalytic Capital Consortium (C3) today announced funding for seven projects that are building new platforms, tools, and pilots to accelerate the supply and deployment of catalytic capital around the world.
Each of these initiatives addresses persistent market challenges that span sectors and geographies. They all aim to create systemic impact by strengthening the conditions under which catalytic capital can be mobilized more effectively and are developing replicable frameworks that can help build the capacity of the field more broadly.
“Globally, there is a tremendous unmet need for financing that prioritizes impact,” said Urmi Sengupta, chair of the C3 Project Advisory Board. “These projects are a remarkable indication of how innovative leaders are developing solutions that deliver beyond immediate transaction and capital gaps,” she said.
The newly funded projects and the organizations leading them include:
200 Million Artisans, in India, is launching the Kula Innovate Capital Activation Engine to accelerate catalytic capital into craft-led enterprises. The project co-designs sector-specific underwriting frameworks through a Community of Practice and two global Capital Futures Labs, captured in a Capital Activation Playbook. In addition, the Kula Innovate 2027 Challenge will award high-potential enterprises and innovations, whose founders join an Enterprise Residency to become capital-ready, market-ready and impact-ready.
Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI), based in Malaysia, is partnering with Habitat for Humanity’s Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter to develop a global regulatory framework for inclusive, affordable and sustainable housing finance. The project is building an open-source suite of tools to help policymakers identify, mobilize and accelerate catalytic capital for housing finance.
Appalachian Community Capital Corporation, in the U.S., is developing and piloting a standardized Advisor Integration Framework to help investment advisors efficiently evaluate offerings from U.S. community development financial institutions (CDFIs). The project is designed to accelerate the supply of catalytic capital to underserved communities through CDFI community investment note vehicles.
FASE, orthe Financing Agency for Social Entrepreneurship (FASE), based in Germany, is creating a catalytic co-investment vehicle to channel capital from previously untapped investor groups into early-stage social enterprises in Europe seeking risk capital below €500,000. The Catalytic Impact Investing Managed Accounts (CIIMA) initiative uses managed accounts on a Luxembourg securitization platform to reduce transaction friction and complexity for both investors and enterprises.
Impact Charitable, in the U.S., is designing a first-of-its-kind platform to incubate philanthropic funds and warehouse deals. The project will allow aspiring impact-first fund managers to test their investment thesis and execute transactions without having to form a legal fund entity, addressing a critical gap in the emerging manager ecosystem.
I&P Ecosystems, the learning and advisory arm of Investisseurs & Partenaires (I&P), headquartered in Paris with offices across Africa, is working with FrontEnd Ventures on a Limited Partner (LP) Conversion Funnel to unlock capital for underfunded African fund managers. It aims to help move a small cohort of African limited partners from interest to actual commitments in emerging African venture capital and small-and-medium-enterprise (SME) funds, creating a replicable model to be scaled to additional LPs over time.
Lucha Startup Studio, based in Peru, is addressing the slow and bespoke due diligence process that often creates friction in catalytic transactions in Latin America and elsewhere, as well as the absence of standardized, trusted on-ramps for non-traditional capital providers. The project—The Impact Bridge for LATAM—includes an AI-enabled diligence and underwriting engine, a template for special purpose vehicles (SPVs) to enable tickets as low as USD$5,000-10,000, and a cross-border philanthropic blueprint that maps pathways for international foundations and donor advised funds (DAFs) into Latin America.
These seven projects build on the work of grantees in C3’s Fostering Solutions and Infrastructure (FSI) workstream, which focused on reducing barriers to accessing and using catalytic capital. (Read more here about the impact of those projects).
All told, more than 440 organizations from 52 countries applied for funding through C3’s Accelerating Supply and Deployment grant program. C3 will be working to elevate this larger pool of projects with colleagues and partners in the weeks to come.
About the Catalytic Capital Consortium
C3 is an investment, learning, and market development initiative to promote greater and more effective use of catalytic capital and enable a more just, equitable, and resilient world. Established in 2019 by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Omidyar Network and the Rockefeller Foundation, it was joined in 2025 by Blue Haven Initiative, Builders Vision, Ceniarth, the Ford Foundation, The Lemelson Foundation, Small Foundation, the Sorenson Impact Foundation, the Soros Economic Development Fund, the Surdna Foundation and Walton Family Foundation. For more, visit www.catalyticcapitalconsortium.org.