Reaction is a global community of 250+ Stanford alumni investing in and scaling innovations to drive exponential change in the world.
Our Funds
Annabelle Williams explains how Reaction drives global change.
Fund I - W250 Venture
Our first fund is named after the room at Stanford where our story began.
Its strategy is driven by our mission to improve a billion lives. We invest in proven leaders with world changing potential and scale their innovations globally. Our focus is on sectors that advance our mission – such as health technology and climate innovation.
Fund II - Catalyst Fund for Climate Innovations
Climate change is…
The toughest challenge humanity is faced with
The largest economic opportunity of the century
The problem Reaction is most capable to help address
To accelerate our path to net zero, we scale top Stanford climate innovations with our experienced investment team and global partner network.
Stanford interviews Reaction on scaling climate innovation.
Hear directly from our founders
Zenysis Founder and CEO, Jonathan Stambolis
Mango Materials Founder and CEO, Molly Morse
JIFFY.ai Digital Innovation Lead, Algernon Callier
Think Tank: What We Believe
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Green Inflation: A new measure for climate change
The urgency of preventing environmental catastrophe is a hot topic, but the vagueness of its imminence and scope weakens the motivation to solve the planet’s environmental issues now. “Soon” is not a convincing deadline. To convey the urgency more effectively, the cost of delay should be expressed as the time value of money. We call this concept “Green Inflation.”
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Impact currency: Mobilize funds to save the planet
How to incentivize dramatically more impact investing to save the planet? By creating a new concept in dollars, the language that those with money understand best, to measure their contributions to all forms of good (“Impact Currency”), as part of the marquee Forbes billionaires ranking. And we did it!
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The health footprint: How our products affect people’s health and happiness
We hear we need to decrease our carbon footprint or digital footprint. A “Health Footprint” should be recognized as a new important topic: the effect of a company or industry on human health.
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Healthcare investing: Opportunities for new value
Pandemics transform healthcare. Reaction believes this is an opportunity for a paradigm shift in the way that we perceive, understand, and invest toward a more sustainable and resilient healthcare ecosystem. Reaction Global Health Leaders have identified the top major opportunities.
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The Impact Menu: A recipe for impact investors
Microfinance was the pride of sustainable development, until it was established that it might cause harm when done incorrectly. We oppose reporting impact where there is none. Nor do we want to repeat the mistakes of others. We are working on creating an “Impact Menu” - a short summary of best practices in impact investing for different areas, designed to improve the efficiency of impact-driven decisions, for all.
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Impact Investing: The Reaction way
Why is Reaction needed now? First, technology is growing exponentially. Second, many platforms that promise astounding impact on business and society have become available today. And third, these technologies are converging, creating multipliers that amplify their potential impact even more.
News About Reaction is Spreading
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Reaction Founding Partner Katrien Verlinden wins Low-Carbon Accelerator Award
09/27/24
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Splight secures $12M to tackle the energy industry's biggest problem: energy curtailment
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Microplastics are everywhere. Here’s how to curb plastic pollution.
11/15/23
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Reaction Named as Top 5 Innovator
09/18/23
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Stanford Changemaker - A Blueprint for Helping a Billion People
02/06/23
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Forbes: He leaves the crypt business and the number one Hungarian crypt head moves to Bali, while saving the world - interview
01/04/22
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Forbes: Impact investing and chess: what do they have in common
01/05/21
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