CATALYST FUNDS: The Job Creation Solution
Jumpstarting Sustainable/Innovative Jobs for Americans
The Solution
Jobs need to be our number one national priority. Our goal is was to develop a strategy to fix the jobless recovery. Catalyst Managements' national initiative is centered and focused on creating sustainable jobs by investing in innovative technology companies in clean technology, health products and cyber security that have significant market potential.
Solving the capital formation issue for innovation enterprises will have a major positive impact on job creation. Community banks can't do it alone, but a partnership of lending with equity capital together can make it happen.
Catalyst Jobs Funds were created with the focused mandate to create jobs for innovative companies that compete in a new and challenging global community. America has slipped from being the global innovation leader. It is imperative that the U.S. understand this threat and need. To make it work, we need to create a synapse between capital, innovation, and entrepreneurship, which is mandatory for sustainable job creation! Innovation is our most important American asset.
Catalyst Funds will:
- Create sustainable American jobs, starting immediately.
- Start the process of fixing the capital formation needs for SMEs.
- Stimulate the commercialization of government sponsored research and development.
- Stimulate working partnerships with community banks, SBA, and research organizations.
- Become the jobs engine America needs.
- Utilize the existing capital delivery system through the experienced (600 firms) venture capital community. This allows the Catalyst Funds to be scalable.
- Every experienced venture capital company has a pipeline of companies in need of expansion capital.
The goal should be to allocate a portion of the $30 billion dollars that have been set aside for jobs and small enterprises. It should be at a minimum of $5 billion dollars, to cover all 50 states. Twenty regional management teams, with $200 million dollars for each region, would provide coverage throughout America. This is a practical public / private partnership. Government provides the capital, the Funds managers provide the expertise to invest capital linked to innovation and entrepreneurship to create sustainable American jobs.
In summary, the Catalyst Regional cluster teams provide a proactive, hands-on regional investment strategy with professional boots on the ground to invest capital with innovative entrepreneurs. Catalyst Funds would immediately establish a network of more than 200 professionals that will be focused on opportunities that will meet our rigorous investment criteria and provide superior financial results and job creation. The venture capitalists managing the Catalyst Funds will have the available bandwidth and knowhow to make this program a major success. America needs to create jobs and make small business the number one domestic priority. Tens of thousands of sustainable U.S. jobs will be created by funding this national jobs initiative.
Creating jobs in America must be our #1 domestic priority!