TOR014: Katarsis Ventures with Richard Catherall

Richard Catherall is Executive Director of Cyprus-based Katarsis Ventures, which works primarily in transition states and post-conflict zones to help make social change happen by enabling big money to connect with big, undiscovered ideas. Catherall also has a U.K. focus, through Radical Capital, which aims to shape the UK social investment market.

Catherall says, "I am investing and actively involved in nurturing the conditions for innovation, supporting leadership through enterprise and encouraging investment in the social economy. The social economy is growing in the space between how the market provides, where the state intervenes and the increasing expectations and aspirations of people. In this space social entrepreneurs seek to solve problems, realize opportunities, shape and create markets through their products and services."