Institutions
Academic institutions provide access to their best and brightest faculty, stewardship and transparency of funding, and a source of early stage companies and intellectual properties. In return, Benefunder provides a scalable new source of funding for faculty and a resource to help monetize the inventions resulting from the world-class research occurring in their halls.
Princeton University is a vibrant community of scholarship and learning that stands in the nation's service and the service of humanity. As a world-renowned research university, Princeton seeks to achieve the highest levels of distinction in the discovery and transmission of knowledge and understanding.
Known for its diverse fields of studies, Syracuse University is a nationally recognized research institution. Benefunder has partnered with Syracuse to help advance the school's interdisciplinary research in the humanities and sciences.
Founded in 1891, Stanford University has been a national leader in research and education for the past 125 years. Comprising seven schools, this Silicon Valley institution is dedicated to fostering student excellence in diverse areas that include humanities, sciences, and engineering.
One of the nation’s leading centers for translational research, particularly for hepatitis B and liver cancer. The Blumberg Institute supports drug discovery, biomarker discovery and translational biotechnology around common research themes such as chronic hepatitis, liver disease, and liver cancer.
Since its inception 30 years ago, La Jolla Institute has solely dedicated itself to understanding the far-reaching power of the immune system because we believe that no other biomedical discipline has greater implications for human health than immunology.
ICSI is renowned for innovation in computer networking, speech and language processing, bioinformatics, brain networks, computer vision, audio and multimedia analysis, and artificial intelligence/machine learning.
The University is the state’s oldest and largest public higher education institution. Through the combined force of education, research and outreach, the University serves students, business and industry, schools, governments, organizations and citizens statewide.
The University of Florida (UF) is a top university has some of the top faculty in the U.S. They foster the uniquely collaborative environment that transforms potential into actual results in future-focused facilities. UF has more LEED-certified buildings than any other American university.
In achievement and prestige, the University of Wisconsin–Madison has long been recognized as one of America's great universities. A public, land-grant institution, UW–Madison offers a complete spectrum of liberal arts studies, professional programs and student activities.
Established in 1766, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is America’s eighth oldest institution of higher learning and one of the nation’s premier public research universities, educating more than 65,000 students.
Established in 1636, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States. The University, which is based in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, has an enrollment of over 20,000 degree candidates, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional students.
Accelerators
Accelerators and Incubators play a critical role in the Innovation Ecosystem. They dramatically increase the likelihood of success by providing networks, mentorship, workspace, access to service providers, entrepreneurial, and in some cases, funding. They are both a resource to our community of Innovators and our Funders for identifying, vetting and cultivating both impact and more traditional investment opportunities.
Activate is a nonprofit organization that partners with funders and leading research institutions to support the Activate Fellowship, a new path for entrepreneurial scientists and engineers to transform their discoveries into world-changing technologies.
SOSV is a multi-stage venture capital investor. We run multiple world-class vertical accelerator programs, and provide seed, venture and growth stage follow-on investment into superstar companies.
DAF Admins
Donor Advised Funds and their administrators provide low cost versatile structures for philanthropic asset management that allow distributions over time. National, as well as, community foundations provide unique attributes for clients that Benefunder integrates with.
Founded in 1993, American Endowment Foundation(AEF) fills a unique role as America’s largest independent donor advised fund program – a national, public charity.
The Jewish Community Foundation partners with individuals, families and community organizations to help them achieve their philanthropic goals. As a leading resource for philanthropy in San Diego, the Foundation manages over $425 million in assets.
The San Diego Foundation maximizes the impact of your charitable giving. We mobilize philanthropic resources to advance quality of life, increase social impact and champion civic engagement.
Triskeles (Greek for "three legs" or activity areas) is a public charity that operates on three program areas: philanthropic services, experiential youth programs, consulting/advisory services to support smaller nonprofits.
Since its inception, ImpactAssets has become the leading facilitator of direct impact investing within donor advised funds. Our portfolio represents more than 568 impact investment positions and $1 billion in assets.
Non-Profit
Benefunder partners with non-profits with significant subject matter expertise and reach to leading funding opportunities that can be sourced on behalf of our clients. In many cases they represent a community of like-minded Funders with a mutual interest in advancing the areas outlined in their mission.
BrainMind is a platform and private community of top brain scientists, entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and academic institutions collaborating to accelerate impactful innovation in brain science.
Prime Coalition is a 501c3 public charity that partners with philanthropists to invest charitable capital in extraordinary companies that combat climate change, have a high likelihood of achieving commercial success, and would otherwise have a difficult time raising sufficient financial support.
The mission of Science Philanthropy Alliance is to increase philanthropic support for basic scientific research by understanding the opportunities and complexities philanthropists face in funding basic science.