For Donors · Catalytic Capital
One cheque seeds a permanent commercialisation capability at a named African university.
MARATTO™ is the trade-not-aid mechanism for African research.Catalytic, not perpetualMeasurable and scalableUniversity-owned capability
Named
University outcomes
Capital tied to a real institution and cohort.
Catalytic
First-cohort runway
Funding starts the function, not a permanent dependency.
Measurable
Tracked progress
Pipeline, ventures, revenue, and follow-on milestones.
University-owned
Permanent capability
The asset stays with the institution after deployment.
The Model
Trade, not aid, by design.
Universities take founding equity in every spinout MARATTO commercialises. Returns flow back to fund the next cohort. External grant capital is needed only to seed the first few cohorts, acting as a catalyst while ventures form and equity returns build. You are not funding a recurring line item. You are funding the moment a permanent commercialisation function comes online at a named institution.
The Causal Logic
Why universities are the answer.
African governments must become payer-at-scale for their own development.
Tax coffers come from businesses.
Businesses come from enterprising people.
Enterprising people need innovation to build around.
Innovation, at the scale Africa needs, has to start somewhere.
Universities are the obvious answer. They are the continent’s most concentrated repositories of raw intelligence and untapped intellectual property.
MARATTO is the operational layer that turns that IP into product, jobs, and tax revenue.
What Your Cheque Does
Catalytic by design.
$3,000 to $20,000 per cohort.
Seeds a 12-week VENTURA™ structured incubation programme at a named African university. Outcomes are tracked to first revenue and reported quarterly.
Named university, named outcomes.
Every grant is tied to a specific institution and a specific cohort. You see the names. You see the ventures. You see the data.
Monthly impact updates.
Donors on the distribution list receive a structured monthly update covering pipeline, MoUs signed, ventures launched, and revenue milestones.
Who We Work With
Four kinds of catalytic capital.
Foundations and trusts
UK charitable trusts, US private foundations, African corporate foundations.
DFIs and multilaterals
Catalytic capital from development finance.
Embassies and bilateral programmes
Small-grants programmes funded by national governments.
Corporate foundations
Aligned with corporate sustainability and impact mandates.
Two routes in.
If you want the model and the pipeline walked through end-to-end, book a discovery call. If you want to be added to the donor distribution list and receive monthly impact updates, sign up.