“100 million for medical research”… Raise, this investment company which combines finance and philanthropy

Finding money to support research, there are those who talk about it and those who do it. With its new “Investing for Medical Research” (IPRM) fund, Raise is part of the second category.

The idea is as simple as it is original: collect money from investors, make it grow and then share the capital gains. Half goes to the capital provider and the other is redistributed to laboratories dedicated to medical research.

The investment company co-founded by financier Gonzague de Blignières and Clara Gaymard, former president of General Electric in France, is not to be outdone. For its part, it undertakes to pay the same laboratories 50% of its management costs.

There are four lucky winners: Gustave Roussy, the Pasteur Institute, the Imagine Institute and the Foundation for Medical Research. A fifth beneficiary can be added at the investor's choice.

The amounts involved are anything but anecdotal. Raise is already…