Your partner in impact.
Ibrahim Rashid has built a career in public-policy advocacy, digital health entrepreneurship, impact investing, and memoir-writing. Rashid Impact Strategies is Ibrahim’s consulting practice supporting social entrepreneurs, impact investors, and aspiring writers with maximizing their impact for others.
Ibrahim has held leadership roles supporting Presidential Campaigns, advised philanthropic and public officials on climate and place-based investing, lobbied congressional staff on innovation policy, and was Chief of Staff and founder of a digital health startup using technology to help patients with chronic illnesses.
He hold’s a B.A. from Boston University and a Master’s in Public Policy from the University of Chicago and is an alum of the Clean Energy Leadership Institute and Chicago:Blend VC Fellowship.
He’s writes about investing and entrepreneurship on substack and speaks regularly about his book on illness and recovery.
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SERVICES OFFERED
Public Policy Insights
We can help you understand how changes in ESG, climate, healthcare, and public finance policies affect your organization and connect you with the right experts.
Storytelling & Op-ed writing
We can coach you on how to communicate and interview with journalists, pitch and write op-eds, and guide you through the self-published author journey.
Capital Raising & Investor Relations
For impact entrepreneurs, we can help you assemble your data-room and pitch-deck, build a target-list of investors, and coach you through the fund raising process.
Career Coaching for Impact Professionals
We work with young professionals and students (undergrad/graduates) interested in pursuing careers in impact investing or social entrepreneurship. We do 1 on 1 coaching sessions, meet with student-groups, lecture in classrooms, and judge student startup-competitions.
Customer Discovery & Market Mapping
We can assist you with customer discovery and facilitating expert interviews.
Impact Fund & Startup Diligence
We can support you with underwriting impact investments. These include early-stage startups in the health and climate space, alongside fund managers in traditional and alternative asset classes.
SELECT CLIENT ENGAGEMENTS
Hardware & Climate Innovation Fund: Researched emerging trends in hardware investing, energy technologies, and data infrastructure.
University Innovation Center Conducted due diligence on faculty-founded AI startups. Assessed commercial viability for non-dilutive funding.
Global Refugee Finance Network: Identified prospective real estate lenders to support a refugee-focused affordable housing impact fund.
Community Investment Financial Institution (CDFI) Built a prospecting strategy to engage health systems in place-based investment models
Diaspora-Focused Philanthropic Foundation Designed a giving strategy to deepen trust and unlock philanthropic capital from the Pakistani diaspora.
Health Equity Author & Advocate: Co-led national interviews, book events, and conference programming on Long COVID, patient-led innovation
Fundraising for startups: Pitch development, investor targeting, and data room creation for tourism and healthcare startups.
Strategy Consulting: Partnered with a strategy consulting firm to advise real estate clients on corporate governance challenges.
Healthcare Innovation Conference: Generated sponsorship leads for a Healthcare Innovation Challenge focused on chronic illnesses.
