Remarkable People

We are a team of experienced professionals with a track record in private equity, venture capital, investment banking, research, corporate advisory, senior management and board roles. We are passionate about building successful businesses and we want to help pioneer an investment class focused on profitable companies with clear social/environmental/ethical impact.

Catalyst Fund 1 has been launched with a cornerstone investment from Barclays Bank with a target of raising £40m.
We look to invest £2m to £6m in each deal, with a minimum threshold of £2m and with an ability to invest up to 15% of the Fund per investment.

We focus on growth companies in the UK, principally providing growth and expansion capital for businesses that can achieve high financial returns (financial criteria) alongside tangible social benefits (social criteria) and we seek to work with management to add value to the underlying businesses.
Catalyst will focus its investments on four key sectors:

• Energy Efficiency & Environment
• Health & Wellness
• Education, Training & Recruitment
• Ethical Consumerism

Catalyst Fund 1 is managed by a strong team of entrepreneurial individuals with a track record of private equity and venture capital investing across a range of industries; investment industry senior management and non-executive board roles in helping companies to succeed.

WorldofGood.com is a collaboration between eBay Inc. and World of Good, Inc. – two companies that share a common vision of creating positive change through commerce.

WorldofGood.com by eBay is the world’s first online marketplace to convene thousands of People Positive and Eco Positive sellers and products all in one place, empowering you to shop in ways that align with your personal values. Respected, independent organizations verify the positive impact every product has on people and the planet. Our goal is to ensure that every choice you make here is a good one.

Introducing Shopping by Goodprint
Like a nutrition label on a food item, the Goodprint on a WorldofGood.com listing quickly guides you to the item’s positive attributes. Search our website for items with the Goodprint that matches your interests and values.

Every choice we make leaves an imprint. Goodprint – WorldofGood.com’s revolutionary product guide – is how sellers display the positive imprint you leave when you purchase a product on WorldofGood.com. It’s the tool you can use to shop for products that match your interests and values.

Goodprint Categories
Each category displayed on Goodprint– People Positive, Eco Positive, Animal Friendly, and Supports a Cause – describes a different type of positive attribute. You can search each category, so you can shop based on the types of social impact that matter most to you.

We provide useful services for social business.

We are the first online marketplace for social business & enterprise, commerce and investment.

ClearlySo answers the practical needs of social businesses and enterprises. We introduce them to investors, product & service vendors - and each other.  We are:

• A visibility platform: Helping social businesses and enterprises raise their profile among peers, potential investors, the public and government
• A marketplace: Enabling social businesses and enterprises to trade with each other & access investment capital
• An information centre for anyone who is or wants to get involved in the social business and investment sector, helping them acquire and share expertise
• A meeting place giving social businesses and enterprises exposure to each other, key product and service providers and socially-minded investors

We are continually developing the site, regularly adding new features and content in reaction to feedback from interviews with users of the site.

What does the name mean?

ClearlySo:  We first came up with ‘Clearly’ as a name for the site and the business, to represent our principles of honesty, transparency and pragmatism.  Quickly discovering that the web domain clearly.com had been taken by a laser and cataract company in Alabama, we moved on to the idea of adding the suffix ‘So’ for social, and because it sounded emphatic and authoritative.  It also enabled us to use the name flexibly for our different constituencies, as in: ClearlySocial  Enterprise or ClearlySocial Investment. 

We hope that, together, the two words portray the idea of a clear and obvious way ahead for business.