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Collaborative Fund

Founders Craig Shapiro

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Total investments 290
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$10M
Portfolio companies 209
Rounds per year 20.71
Lead investments 20
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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

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

Matter Neuroscience

$26M27 Feb 2024 -

Hippo Harvest

Agriculture
AgTech
Sustainability
$21M14 Feb 2024 Half Moon Bay, California, United States

Phage Technologies

Biotechnology
Consulting
Enterprise Software
$11M23 Jan 2024 Chile, Chile

Guac

Information Services
Media and Entertainment
Web Development
$2M19 Dec 2023 Dover, Delaware, United States

Pioneer

Information Technology
$2M09 Nov 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Byterat

Battery
Software
Test and Measurement
$4M27 Oct 2023 Palo Alto, 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 290
Average round size 10M
Rounds per year 20.71
Peak activity year 2022
Lead investments 20
Follow on index 0.28
Exits 34
Group Appearance index 0.97

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

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

Matter Neuroscience

$26M27 Feb 2024 -

Hippo Harvest

Agriculture
AgTech
Sustainability
$21M14 Feb 2024 Half Moon Bay, California, United States

Phage Technologies

Biotechnology
Consulting
Enterprise Software
$11M23 Jan 2024 Chile, Chile

Guac

Information Services
Media and Entertainment
Web Development
$2M19 Dec 2023 Dover, Delaware, United States

Pioneer

Information Technology
$2M09 Nov 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Byterat

Battery
Software
Test and Measurement
$4M27 Oct 2023 Palo Alto, California, United States
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