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Collaborative Fund

Founders Craig Shapiro

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Total investments 306
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$10M
Portfolio companies 219
Rounds per year 21.86
Lead investments 24
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.28
Exits 34
Key employees 7
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Food and Beverage
  • Software
  • Financial Services
  • Health Care
  • FinTech
Summary

Collaborative Fund is the famous VC, which was founded in 2010. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York.

The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as E-Commerce, Peer to Peer. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Quora, AltSchool, AgaMatrix. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The high activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. When the investment is from Collaborative Fund the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. This Collaborative Fund works on 18 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 8 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations.

The fund was created by Craig Shapiro. We also calculated 7 valuable employees in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the Collaborative Fund, startups are often financed by Y Combinator, Union Square Ventures, Upfront Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Upfront Ventures, Notation Capital, Maveron. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Accomplice, Upfront Ventures, Union Square Ventures.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Dandelion Energy

CleanTech
Consumer Goods
Customer Service
Energy
GreenTech
Renewable Energy
Service Industry
$40M24 Sep 2024 New York, New York, United States

Ephos

Hardware
Information Technology
Software Engineering
$8M23 Sep 2024 Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Matereal

Chemical
Manufacturing
$4M25 Jul 2024 Denver, Colorado, United States

Diferente ≠

Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Fruit
Grocery
Sustainability
Waste Management
$1M24 Jun 2024 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Voyage Foods

Food and Beverage
$52M08 May 2024 Oakland, California, United States

Verne

18 Apr 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Loyal

Biotechnology
Pet
Veterinary
$45M21 Mar 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Airhive

20 Mar 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Anthro Energy

Battery
Manufacturing
$20M29 Feb 2024 San Jose, California, United States
News
Loyal raises $27M, aims to give dog owners more time with their pets

– San Francisco startup Loyal raised $27m in Series A funding.
– The round was led by Khosla Ventures and included First Round Capital, Box Group, Collaborative Fund, The Longevity Fund and Lachy Groom.
– The company is building an animal pharmaceutical company that is developing therapeutics aimed at extending both lifespan and healthspan for dogs.

Immi takes in $3.8M to cook up plant-based instant ramen

– Immi, a plant-based instant ramen company, raised $3.8m in seed funding.
– The round was led by Siddhi Capital and joined by Palm Tree Crew, Constellation Capital, Animal Capital, Pear Ventures, Collaborative Fund and a group of individuals, including Patrick Schwarzenegger, Kat Cole and Nik Sharma, as well as executives from Thrive Market, Caviar, Daring Foods, Madhappy, Twitch, Kettle & Fire, MUD\WTR, Native, Amity Supply, Visionary Music Group, Italic, Tatcha and Casper.
– The company plans to launch its product in the US in 2019.

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Total investments 306
Average round size 10M
Rounds per year 21.86
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 24
Follow on index 0.28
Exits 34
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Dandelion Energy

CleanTech
Consumer Goods
Customer Service
Energy
GreenTech
Renewable Energy
Service Industry
$40M24 Sep 2024 New York, New York, United States

Ephos

Hardware
Information Technology
Software Engineering
$8M23 Sep 2024 Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Matereal

Chemical
Manufacturing
$4M25 Jul 2024 Denver, Colorado, United States

Diferente ≠

Food and Beverage
Food Delivery
Fruit
Grocery
Sustainability
Waste Management
$1M24 Jun 2024 Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Voyage Foods

Food and Beverage
$52M08 May 2024 Oakland, California, United States

Verne

18 Apr 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Loyal

Biotechnology
Pet
Veterinary
$45M21 Mar 2024 San Francisco, California, United States

Airhive

20 Mar 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Anthro Energy

Battery
Manufacturing
$20M29 Feb 2024 San Jose, California, United States
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