🚨 Come work with us! 🚨 Over at Collaborative Fund we're kicking off a search for two new team members to join us as part of our two-year Associate program. We're looking for folks who are: 🚀 entrepreneurial ⏩ hard working 😁 optimistic 👩🔬 intellectually curious 💡 self-starting 🗽 excited to live in New York Head over to our blog to learn more: https://lnkd.in/gwJBTMQD
Collaborative Fund
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
We back entrepreneurs, businesses, and protocols pushing the world forward.
About us
We are a network of fund managers investing across asset classes, identifying and supporting companies that live at the intersection of for-profit & for-good.
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http://collabfund.com
External link for Collaborative Fund
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- New York
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2010
- Specialties
- Investing, Technology, and Startups
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New York, US
Employees at Collaborative Fund
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It's a big day for us over at Matereal! Today we announced our $4.5M seed round funding led by the amazing Collaborative Fund. This is a win for all of us and for people that believe that we can live in a #MaterealWorld without toxic plastics. Phil and I want to give a big welcome to Sophie Bakalar joining our board and Wes Selke from Better Ventures as board observer. They're in great company with Alante Capital One Small Planet Climate Capital Pachamama Ventures PDS Ventures Matthew Myers Climate Tech Cocktails Sandy Spring Climate Partners Net Zero Angels Anshuman Bapna Jim Huston Sarah Rodriguez and we are beyond grateful to have them supporting our mission to decarbonize & detoxify chemical plastic supply chains- starting with those in textiles. None of this would have been possible without our incredible team. To my cofounder Dr. Philip Pienkos- you are the best. Thank you for bringing me on this journey. Thank you Ben Galphin for being the first to see what is possible. Jordan Harris & Dr. Zixu Huang for bringing this product to life & Blake Yeager for bringing the cohesion to the vision we need. Shout out to Louisa Bilton & Lorenzo Olivi for doing everything & anything needed for our success. And of course to Alec Lai for your internal ops skills. A BIG thank you to Arthur Donald for believing in us and partnering with us. To our incredible advisors for being our village and my sounding board Dr. Ann Lai Seth Levine Tim Thomson Matthew Wiatrowski Liz G. Irene M.. Of course, none of this would be possible without our rockstar lawyers so big thanks to Daniel Wu & Carolyn Greason Elmore and to our early supporters For ClimateTech & Fashion for Good. Very importantly, to our partners at National Renewable Energy Laboratory thank you Dr. Tao Dong for your brilliance & Eric Payne for setting this whole thing in motion. Finally, thank you to my amazing husband James Amable for keeping me sane through this process! #MaterealWorld #Sustainability #CircularFashion #GreenChemistry #SafeChemistry #AI Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gSGPtgfN
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It's been a big month for the team at Copper: the world's first energy storage equipped induction electric range is now for sale. The First Edition Charlie has already sold out, been nominated for the Fast Company Innovation by Design award, and won 3 Core77 design awards! Hear more about the product and journey so far from Copper co-founder Sam Calisch on the Built For Earth or Climate Capital podcasts and pre-order your Charlie today https://lnkd.in/g4_2Rqv9
Pre-Order Charlie
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Dr. Gesa Biermann and the team at Pina Earth recently announced a breakthrough partnership with Airbnb to help guests contribute to high quality climate and regeneration projects across Europe. Check out the interview we did with Gesa to see how your team can spark creative partnerships with global brands to inspire local climate action. 🌎 Collaborative Fund https://lnkd.in/g2mFKR-p
A Q&A with Dr. Biermann of Pina Earth
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Trust > Hype Some important thoughts on fusion:
Fusion energy is key to solving our current climate crisis. So it’s critical that the fusion industry works together to build public trust. To do that, we must standardize how we evaluate progress. Every fusion concept naturally passes milestones that show it has a viable source of fusion energy and it can commercialize that fusion energy. To help motivate our industry to work together toward this common good, I’ve detailed the standardized approach we use internally to track the ecosystem. Hopefully this is helpful to investors, press, regulators, and the public to use to evaluate real progress. Further, CFS commits to focusing on company milestone announcements that are: ✔ Easy to measure and interpret ✔ Peer reviewed, as the norm ✔ Shared and celebrated publicly ✔ Easy to understand The path to fusion is paved with extraordinary potential for climate and energy, and while we race against time to make fusion a reality we must also get it right. I urge my colleagues and peers to hold ourselves accountable to science, engineering, and commercial progress. A rising tide lifts all boats. Read my full open letter below and let me know what you think. https://lnkd.in/ejiwP3fz
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Last month, I completed a 200 mile gravel bike race in Kansas with the goal of getting to the finish line before sunset. When the dust settled and I reflected on the day, I couldn't help thinking about the parallels between training for this race and the core attributes of success for an entrepreneurial journey. Spoiler alert -- it takes a lot more than grit. More about that below. https://lnkd.in/gAMZihaZ
Pedaling Through Challenges: Entrepreneurial Lessons from Endurance Cycling
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Here it is: the Charlie range. This morning we unveiled the First Edition of Charlie. We’ve tested with world class chefs, as well as kids cooking their first omelet, and everyone in between. We sent out our first emails inviting people to order, and sold out of First Edition ranges. We’ve now opened pre-orders nationwide, you can put in your deposit here: https://lnkd.in/gat6Gune
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🎧 Loved this recent episode of My Climate Journey featuring Collaborative Fund portfolio founder, Julia Reichelstein, Co-Founder and CEO of Vaulted Deep. She and Cody get into the details surrounding their permanent, geologic carbon storage using sludgy, organic waste. They cover their amazing founding story involving Omar Abou-Sayed's father, who is a well known geologist, and actually invented the technology for oil field waste applications while building Advantek. Spanning a career in international development, venture capital and now carbon removal, Julia shares more about her personal motivations for selecting this type of carbon removal approach, and how they're thinking about building a real business case for community-led carbon removal. https://lnkd.in/gpFKw8SD
Startup Series: Permanent Geologic Carbon Storage with Vaulted Deep — MCJ Collective
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In March, we kicked off a search for two new team members to join us here at Collaborative Fund as part of our two year associate program. After reviewing hundreds of incredible applicants, we are honored and humbled to have Amanda Amos and Matt Kaufman join us! Amanda joins us after graduating from Harvard Business School, where she interned with Emerson and Pear VC. Prior to business school, Amanda held various roles at Google, including Global Sustainability Marketing and Google Play Product Marketing. Amanda graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Political Science-Political Economy from the University of Pennsylvania. Matt joins us with a robust background in consulting and strategy. He has been with Bain & Company for nearly four years and prior worked in strategy and business development at Verdox and held a summer associate consultant position at Mars & Co. Matt earned his BA in Physics and Math with high honors from Harvard University. We recently shared our vision for the program: not just as a means to contribute to Collaborative Fund, but to vastly accelerate the career paths of our Associates in ways that sets this program apart. Our dedication to our Associates extends far beyond the two-year program – we're all about fostering lasting relationships and unlocking real opportunities through the experience and network gained here. We're beyond excited for Amanda and Matt to join us this week and help us take Collaborative Fund to new heights! 🚀🌟
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Armada’s mission to redefine the future of edge computing just got a boost! Today, we’re thrilled to announce a $40 million funding round led by M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund. This investment propels our total funding to over $100M and marks a significant milestone in our journey to bring AI to the edge and bridge the digital divide. We’ve also signed a key partnership with Microsoft, which brings Armada's innovative solutions to the Microsoft Azure Marketplace , allowing Azure customers to use pre-committed spend on Armada’s cutting-edge solutions and making our technology more accessible than ever. Dive deeper into our vision and read more about our latest developments from #AllieGarfinkle at Fortune https://bit.ly/3Y4v1rr.
Exclusive: Armada lands $40 million in funding round led by Microsoft's M12
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