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| 24.10.2024 | Media industry leaders unveil [cafeteria] to enable generation teen with funding led by Collaborative Fund and Imaginary Ventures | [cafeteria] iOS App Screens
Bertelsmann and Guy Oseary also participated in a multimillion dollar seed round for the culture-tech platform, enabling teens to shape the brands they love and earn for their insights.
NEW YORK, Oct. 24, 2024 /P... |
| 24.09.2024 | Ephos: Pioneering the Future of Quantum Computing with Glass-Based Photonic Chips | In the heart of Milan, a technological revolution is brewing. Ephos, a trailblazer in the realm of glass-based photonic chips, has secured €7.6 million in seed funding. This investment is not just a financial boost; it’s a launchpad for inn... |
| 24.09.2024 | Dandelion Energy Closes $40M Series C Funding | Dandelion Energy, an Arlington, VA-based home geothermal company, raised $40M in Series C funding.
The round was led by GV (Google Ventures) and supported by Collaborative Fund, LenX, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and NGP.
The company inten... |
| 23.09.2024 | NATO-backed Ephos raises $8.5M Seed for glass-based photonic chips | Ephos, a producer of glass-based photonic chips, has raised an $8.5M seed funding round and will open a research and manufacturing facility in Milan, the world's first dedicated to producing glass-based quantum photonic circuits. In additio... |
| 23.09.2024 | Milan-based Ephos raises €7.6 million to deliver glass-based quantum photonic chips | Ephos, a Europe-founded producer of glass-based photonic chips, announced a major expansion of its operations: an €7.6 million seed funding round and the opening of a state-of-the-art research and manufacturing facility in Milan, the world’... |
| 16.09.2024 | Baselane Survey Reveals Strong Investor Sentiment Despite Rising Costs | Real estate investor sentiment remains bullish in the face of challenging headwinds, with an overwhelming majority planning to expand their real estate portfolios over the next 12-24 months.
NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Wh... |
| 16.08.2024 | Cala Systems: Intelligent Heat Pump Water Heater Company Closes $5.6 Million (Seed) | Cala Systems, a creator of highly intelligent heat pump water heaters that ensure comfort, save energy, reduce emissions, and integrate with the home, today announced $5.6 million in seed funding and the commercial launch of its product. Th... |
| 10.06.2024 | After raising €145M, Sweden’s Aira secures €200M to remove this one huge barrier to heat pump adoption | Read this article in:
Stockholm-based Aira, a clean energy tech company, recently announced that it has secured €200M in debt commitments from BNP Paribas to facilitate the installation of Aira Heat Pumps in thousands of homes across German... |
| 11.05.2024 | Voyage Foods: Leading the Way in Sustainable Food Innovation | Voyage Foods, a cutting-edge food innovation company based in California, has recently secured a substantial $52 million in funding, bringing their total raise to an impressive $94 million. This funding round, co-led by Level One Fund and H... |
| 09.05.2024 | Voyage Foods Closes $52M Series A+ Round After Notching Cargill Partnership | 4 Mins Read Ethical pantry company Voyage Foods, famous for its cocoa-free chocolate and nut-free spreads, has secured $52M in a Series A+ funding round, weeks after signing a commercial deal with Cargill.
Voyage Foods, which says it makes ... |
| 04.04.2024 | Jobs for the Future’s new $50M fund looks to invest in underrepresented founders | Two years ago, Jobs for the Future (JFF), a non-profit dedicated to helping low-wage workers attain upward mobility, established a venture arm, JFFVentures, to back innovative employment tech.
In a move implying that the launch went well, J... |
| 17.04.2023 | You don’t learn, then start. You start, then learn | Most people who want to start a business or a project or anything of significance suffer from fear paralysis. This debacle stems from two sources: one, a perceived uncertainty. Humans are terrible at dealing with uncertainty. And people thi... |
| 18.08.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Oatside secures $65m for Singapore’s first oat milk, input supplier iProcure scores $10m | Singapore’s first-ever oat milk brand Oatside made headlines this week with news of its sizable Series A round while iProduce landed funds to expand its input distribution tech across Africa. Fashion designer Stella McCartney is helping lau... |
| 28.07.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: FreshRealm, Kitchen United score mega-deals in a downturn, Arable raises $40m | Despite the current downturn in tech, FreshRealm landed a mega-deal recently, as did ghost kitchen network Kitchen United. In agtech, Normative bagged funds for its carbon reporting platform and old favorites like donuts and avocados are go... |
| 19.07.2022 | So. Many. New. Venture. Funds. | Further proving that venture investors have more dry powder than ever before, this week started with a flurry of venture capital fund close announcements across sectors and stages. It tells that LPs are staying active amid this dissonant mo... |
| 30.06.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Eclipse scoops $40m for animal-free ice cream, Current Foods nets $18m | This week, Eclipse — best known for its animal-free ice creams — closed its Series B round, while another plant-based protein startup, Current Foods, raised capital for its vegan salmon analog.
Elsewhere, e-grocer Ocado scored big from a pu... |
| 29.06.2022 | BREAKING: Seaweed biomaterials startup AlgiKnit nets $13m Series A funding | AlgiKnit, a US startup developing sustainable textiles from seaweed, has raised $13 million in Series A funding, it announced today.
Collaborative Fund led the round.
New investors included H&M CO:LAB, the investment arm of Swedish clot... |
| 13.06.2022 | Modern Synthesis raises $4.1 million to increase fashion sustainability with textiles grown from microbes | UK-based biomaterials start-up Modern Synthesis has raised $4.1 million in seed funding to develop its microbial textile platform which could help the fashion sector to lower its carbon footprint and reduce waste.
Operating in much the same... |
| 09.06.2022 | Brief: Cell cultured milk startup Brown Foods raises $2.36m from Y Combinator, AgFunder & others | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Brown Foods. US- and India-based Brown Foods has raised a $2.36 million seed round to further develop its milk alternative made using mammalian cell culture technology. TechCrunc... |
| 01.06.2022 | BREAKING: Modern Synthesis raises $4.1m from AgFunder, others to grow textiles from microbes | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Modern Synthesis.
UK-based biomaterials startup Modern Synthesis has raised $4.1 million in seed funding to support its microbial textile platform that aims to make the fashion i... |
| 29.05.2022 | Impact VC Firm Launches Shared Future Fund To Jumpstart Climate Startups | If anything has reached a state of emergency, it’s climate change. So figured venture capitalist Craig Shapiro as he watched the orange skies of San Francisco during 2020’s raging wildfires. For that reason, earlier this year, he launched S... |
| 18.05.2022 | BREAKING: Imagindairy raises $15m in seed extension, set to launch alt-milk products in 2023 | Imagindairy, an Israeli producer of animal-free milk proteins, has just raised an additional $15 million for its extended seed round.
The initial tranche in November 2021 brought in $13 million, taking the round’s total to $28 million.
Germ... |
| 12.05.2022 | The Week in Agrifoodtech: Absolute Foods scores $100m, Mashgin bags $63m | Among this week’s largest funding rounds in agrifoodtech was the $100 million raised by India’s Absolute Foods, which is seeking to vertically integrate the ag value chain. Mashgin, a US maker of contactless self-checkout machines, also sco... |
| 24.02.2022 | The Lowdown: Bowery’s strawberry bot buyout | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Root AI and Tevel.
Last week, New York vertical farming company Bowery announced that it had acquired Mountain View, California-based ag robotics startup Traptic for an undisclos... |
| 22.02.2022 | Aussie e-bike startup vrooms into Europe for expansion with $20 million | The rapid delivery market ( |
| 22.02.2022 | Global utility e-bike innovator Zoomo accelerates growth by adding another $20M to its Series B funding round | The equity raise was led by top-tier US VC Collaborative Fund, with strategic investors, MUFG Innovation Partners, SG Fleet, Akuna Capital and WIND Ventures also joining the round.
NEW YORK, Feb. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Zoomo, the world le... |
| 16.02.2022 | Rubi Laboratories raises $4.5m in seed funding to supply major fashion brands with carbon-negative textiles | "We're at a pivotal moment in time where mature modern technologies and advances in biotech can meet to build a world where human prosperity and economic growth are planet-positive."
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| 01.12.2021 | Spoiler Alert raises $11m to help CPGs sell surplus inventory & cut food waste | Boston-based startup Spoiler Alert has raised $11 million in Series A funding to grow its ‘liquidation platform’ that helps consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies sell surplus and short-dated inventory to discount retailers.
The round was ... |
| 01.12.2021 | A rind is a terrible thing to waste: Spoiler Alert leaps to the rescue | We spend such a tremendous amount of our resources growing, processing, transporting and selling food items. In a world where not everyone has enough to eat, it’s a disgrace that in the US, 30%-40% of food that is produced is never consumed... |
| 01.12.2021 | BREAKING: Spoiler Alert raises $11m to help CPGs sell surplus inventory & cut food waste | Boston-based startup Spoiler Alert has raised $11 million in Series A funding to grow its ‘liquidation platform’ that helps consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies sell surplus and short-dated inventory to discount retailers.
The round was ... |
| 26.11.2021 | The Startup Classroom: Abroaden’s Incubator Journey VIII (The Round-Up) | This is the 8th part of a series of posts where Elliott shares his inside track on his experience of going through an incubator program.
Part I (Great Expectations)
Part II (Back To School)
Part III (Design Thinking)
Part IV (Legal & Fu... |
| 17.11.2021 | Israel’s Imagindairy closes $13m seed round to commercialize cow-free milk proteins | Israeli alt-milk startup Imagindairy has raised $13 million in seed funding, it announced today.
MoreVC led the round, with participation from Collaborative Fund, Emerald Technology Ventures, Entrée Capital, Green Circle Foodtech Ventures, ... |
| 14.11.2021 | Future Startup Weekly No. 24 | Message from our Partner: Global Innovation Challenge
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BRAC's Social Innovation Lab is coming online to answer any questions regarding the GLOBAL INNOVATION CHALLENGE. BRAC, H&... |
| 26.07.2021 | Future Startup Weekly 12: Labor Productivity and Startup Success | What kills a far greater number of startups than any other reason is simple productivity loss, not being able to do with sufficient efficiency, what needs to be done. This is precisely why everyone talks about execution over ideas. While we... |
| 19.07.2021 | Pivot Bio scores $430m in DCVC, Temasek-led Series D round | Pivot Bio has raised $430 million in funding after seeing its revenue increase threefold since the start of this year, it announced today.
The Berkeley, California-based ag inputs startup is also releasing its latest nitrogen-fixation produ... |
| 19.07.2021 | BREAKING: Pivot Bio scores $430m in DCVC, Temasek-led Series D round | Pivot Bio has raised $430 million in funding after seeing its revenue increase threefold since the start of this year, it announced today.
The Berkeley, California-based ag inputs startup is also releasing its latest nitrogen-fixation produ... |
| 25.05.2021 | Kula Bio banks $10m seed funding to fix nitrogen, carbon in the soil | Disclosure: AgFunder, which is AFN’s parent company, is an investor in Kula Bio.
Kula Bio, a startup developing more sustainable nitrogen fertilizers for crops, has raised $10 million in a seed round led by Collaborative Fund.
Other investo... |
| 02.03.2021 | Ridmik Keyboard’s Path to 50 Million Downloads | Ridmik Keyboard is one of the most popular Bangla language keyboards widely used by millions of Bangla-speaking population online.
Created by Shamim Hasnath, Founder and CEO of Ridmik Labs, Ridmik Keyboard was launched in 2012 as a persona... |
| 10.01.2021 | The Crazy Stuff We Do With Money—Explained | I’ve got some good news. You’re not crazy. |
| 03.11.2020 | Morgan Housel: “The biggest economic risk is what no-one is talking about” | Morgan Housel’s highly anticipated new book, The Psychology of Money, opens with a quote from Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes: “The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” |
| 29.09.2020 | Stablecoins May Lead to Transformation of Financial Services, Especially Payments, According to Experienced Investment Professionals | Stephen McKeon and Derek Schloss from Collab+Currency (Collaborative Fund) have noted that they’ve invested in LUNA, which is a digital token that backs the Terra ecosystem of stablecoins (virtual currencies pegged 1-to-1 with real-world as... |
| 16.07.2020 | Стартапы в форме B-Corp: для кого и зачем | В этой заметке разберемся, почему все больше компаний в США учреждается в форме B-Corp, а инвесторы несут в них все больше денег.
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| 22.04.2020 | A new analysis shows what states are risking by reopening too early: A longer pandemic that could kill more Americans and send the national debt skyrocketing | The economy is suffering a hard blow from government shutdowns, but a prolonged pandemic would only worsen the matter.
The US could see its debt-to-GDP ratio nearing 150% by 2030 in a worst-case scenario, according to a new Deutsche Bank re... |
| 22.02.2020 | This Plant-Based Bacon Is Just The Beginning, Alt-Meat Startup Says | What do you call a BLT when the bacon is plant-based? This sandwich includes alt-bacon from Prime ... [+] Roots. Prime Roots |
| 15.01.2020 | Collaborative Fund just hired a former top Goldman Sachs investor to do later-stage deals | Collaborative Fund emerged on the scene nearly 10 years ago to fund seed-stage and, as time passed, early-stage startups, many of them in New York, where the firm is based.
Apparently, the firm has ambitions to do more later-stage investing... |
| 29.12.2019 | Wrapping Up CLT’s 2019: Q4 Deals in the Queen City | An exciting Q4 in the Carolinas has left many startups looking forward to a successful 2020. We thought the best way to ring in the new year would be to look back at the most noteworthy fundings, deals, exits, mergers, and acquisitions duri... |
| 21.08.2019 | Spyce up your life with robot woks: review from Boston | For the last several months, I’ve been monitoring the roll-out of robo-chefs in restaurants. A fair few of them either end up malfunctioning or on the scrapheap, as it’s not an easy business to get both the technology and the hospitality ri... |
| 06.06.2019 | Пять законов футуризма: по каким правилам развиваются технологии и цивилизация Статьи редакции | Перевод материала разработчика и студента Джорджтаунского университета Уилла МакКриди о концепциях законов Мура, Карлсона, Меткалфа, Амары и Гекко.
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| 29.04.2019 | Could These Two Mega Trends Crush Your Retirement Plan? | Looking good America - for now Getty |
| 04.10.2018 | «Наш подход отличался от традиционного пути стартапов»: зачем Buffer выкупила у инвесторов акции стоимостью $3,3 млн... | Перевод статьи Джоэля Гаскойна, основателя и генерального директора компании Buffer.
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| 10.09.2018 | GV Leads $60m Series C for Benson Hill Biosystems to Focus on Health and Nutrition | Benson Hill Biosystems, the data-led crop genetics discovery and gene editing platform, has raised $60 million in Series C funding in a round led by GV (formerly Google Ventures).
Benson Hill’s CropOS computational platform and suite of bre... |
| 29.05.2018 | Collaborative Fund raises $100M for its fourth fund | When Collaborative Fund is looking at whether to invest in a company, it’s looking for a startup that’ll be able to accomplish some kind of social good — but also actually make money and be a real business. It’s that theory that’s led the f... |
| 27.03.2018 | Collaborative Fund Joins $4.5M Funding for Dandelion | Dandelion, a residential geothermal company that offers homeowners clean and cost-saving heating and cooling technology, announced that it has raised $4.5MM, bringing the company’s total funding to $6.5MM. The round was led by New Enterpris... |
| 13.02.2018 | Column: Xerox, once a business icon, is about to disappear — take heed, Amazon and Google | It was not so long ago that one could count on certain familiar guideposts of business: Xerox was the dominant provider of office equipment, Sears the biggest retailer, General Electric the leading manufacturer of, well, almost everything, ... |
| 04.02.2018 | Kr-ASIA Weekly Roundup | Editor’s note:
In the first month of the new year, the battle of new retail between Alibaba and Tencent is already escalating. Tencent has made several moves to beef up its presence in brick and mortar stores by teaming up with Carrefour an... |
| 01.02.2018 | Every New York City Venture Firm, Listed | As entrepreneurs brush off their pitch decks for the new year, they'll likely realize that finding the right venture fund is tougher than ever. Even though last year's VC deal dollars added up to the largest amount since the dot com boom, t... |
| 28.01.2018 | KrASIA Weekly Roundup | Editor’s note:
Rumor has it that Uber is about to retreat from some of its overseas markets as its biggest shareholder SoftBank tells the ride-hailing company to concentrate on recovering market share in the US and key European markets.
It ... |
| 17.01.2018 | Taylor Greene Named Partner at the Collaborative Fund | Taylor Greene has been named a partner at the Collaborative Fund, according to a blog post and his LinkedIn profile.
He was most recently a partner at Lerer Hippeau Ventures after spending four years at the firm.
Greene is to start in Febru... |
| 17.01.2018 | Taylor Greene Named Partner at the Collaborative Fund | Taylor Greene has been named a partner at the Collaborative Fund, according to a blog post and his LinkedIn profile.
He was most recently a partner at Lerer Hippeau Ventures after spending four years at the firm.
Greene is to start in Febru... |
| 17.10.2017 | Who are the Leading Insect Farming Startups? | You can tell that the public is captivated by a particular food, when its mere existence on a menu makes the news. Insects are one such ingredient. Cricket ice cream, cricket granola, cricket meatballs, cricket bars, cricket pasta, cricket ... |
| 24.08.2017 | Kimbal Musk’s Indoor Farmer Training Program Raises $5m Seed Funding | Square Roots, the Brooklyn-based indoor farmer training program and container farm founded by Kimbal Musk, has raised a $5.4 million seed round led by New York-based VC Collaborative Fund, joined by several individual investors.
The 12-mont... |
| 06.07.2017 | Dandelion Raises $2 Million Seed Round, Led by Collaborative Fund | NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, home geothermal startup, Dandelion, announced it has raised a $2 million seed round to kick-off its sales and operations. The round was led by Collaborative Fund and includes ZhenFund and Borealis Ventures.... |
| 06.07.2017 | Dandelion Raises $2 Million Seed Round, Led by Collaborative Fund | NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, home geothermal startup, Dandelion, announced it has raised a $2 million seed round to kick-off its sales and operations. The round was led by Collaborative Fund and includes ZhenFund and Borealis Ventures.... |
| 26.06.2017 | Collaborative Fund Leads $1.4M Seed Funding for Outschool | Outschool, the only marketplace for live online classes for K-12 children, today announced a $1.4 million seed round led by Collab+Sesame, a fund backed by the Collaborative Fund and Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization b... |
| 26.06.2017 | Outschool goes to Sesame Street and picks up $1.4 million for its K-12 online learning marketplace | Now kids can potentially take a class to find out how to get to Sesame Street, thanks to a fresh $1.4 million in new funding for Outschool and its online learning marketplace from investors led by Sesame Street’s venture partnership with Co... |
| 20.06.2017 | Social Starts Buzz Room: June 20, 2017 | A compendium of what our partners read each week, highlighting macro industry trends, our investment focus areas, and general personal and business strategies.
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| 15.06.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, June 15 | GREEDY BASTARDS
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| 17.05.2017 | Collaborative Fund Joins $8.1M Series A for The Farmer’s Dog | The Farmer’s Dog, the leading direct-to-consumer, fresh pet food company, today announced it has closed an $8.1 million Series A financing round led by Shasta Ventures with participation from previous investors including Forerunner Ventures... |
| 21.04.2017 | Q&A app Quora valued around $1.8 billion in $85 million fundraise | Quora just became the unicorn of subjective human knowledge. After eight years carefully cultivating an intelligent question and answer community, it’s just raised an $85 million Series D round co-led by Collaborative Fund and Y Combinator’... |
| 13.04.2017 | goTenna Series B fuels vision to make local communication possible anywhere on the planet | Founded in 2012 with the small goal of enabling connectivity-free communication, goTenna has ballooned to more than 23 employees and delivered real hardware to market in the process. Today the startup is adding another $7.5 million to its c... |
| 14.02.2017 | Investing in GoodBusiness | Ted Rheingold Contributor
Ted Rheingold is a profit-from-purpose entrepreneur. He was the founding COO of Tala and founder of the social networks Dogster and Catster.
Since 2001, impact VC firms have raised $13 billion to invest in companie... |
| 07.12.2016 | Help Brands Blacklist Sites That Don't Fit With Their Brand | One of the issues with the emergence of programmatic and re-targeted advertising is that brands target people not publications with their ad spend. And the result is a brand’s ads end up on sites that they don’t really want them on. Brands ... |
| 21.11.2016 | Revolution Foods plans aggressive retail expansion, on track to generate $130m in revenue in 2016 | While many food start-ups gravitate towards snacks and beverages, Revolution Foods began right at the center of the plate, and was very clear about its mission from the outset, co-founder Kirsten Saenz Tobey told FoodNavigator-USA: “To tran... |
| 30.08.2016 | Meet the Motley Fool Who Just Joined a VC Firm | Morgan Housel has spent the past nine years as an investment columnist with The Motley Fool, while also writing for such publications as The Wall Street Journal. Now he’ll be plying his trade as a partner with Collaborative Fund, a seed-sta... |
| 18.07.2016 | Line, the newly public messaging app, has funded at least 9 U.S. startups | Line, the popular Japanese messaging service that went public last week on both the NYSE and in Japan, partnered on a fund a couple of years ago with the New York-based venture firm Collaborative Fund in order to gain more of a foothold in ... |
| 14.07.2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: Ripple Foods Raises $30m from Google, Khosla, S2G, Tao, Soil Disease Testing Kit Raises $4m, more | Ripple Foods Raises $30m from Google Ventures, Khosla, S2G, Tao Capital
Ripple Foods, which makes non-dairy milk products with eight times the protein as almond milk and half the sugar of dairy milk, has closed a $30 million Series B round ... |
| 30.06.2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: Google and the CIA Invest in Satellite Imagery Startup Contributing to $185m in Weekly Investment | Google and CIA Invest in Orbital Insight’s $20m Series B
Geospatial big data company Orbital Insight has raised $20 million in Series B funding in a round led by Google’s venture arm GV with participation from early stage tech investor CME ... |
| 07.04.2016 | This Crowdfunding Platform's New Tool Lets 'The Crowd' Invest Alongside Elite Venture Capitalists | April 7, 2016 3 min read
Crowdfunding and venture capital have, historically, existed on opposite corners of the startup finance playing field. But these opposites are increasingly acknowledging the benefits of each other’s business models,... |
| 05.04.2016 | Collaborative Fund and CircleUp Launch Consumer Products & Retail Fund | Collaborative Fund, a San Francisco, CA-based venture capital firm focused on supporting creative entrepreneurs, and CircleUp, an investment marketplace for consumer brands, have teamed up to launch a new fund focused on early-stage compani... |
| 19.03.2016 | Sesame Workshop is looking for startups that help kids | Larry Alton Contributor
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| 07.03.2016 | Insect Food Brand Exo Raises $4m Series A from Nas and Amelia Boone | Consumers, entrepreneurs, and investors alike are realizing the potential for insects to provide a sustainable and alternative source of protein for humans.
While still consumed by the more forward-thinking and adventurous consumers out the... |
| 04.02.2016 | Sesame Workshop and Collaborative Fund Launch Kid-Focused Venture Capital Fund | Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit educational organization focused on kid advancement, has launched a venture capital initiative.
Sesame Ventures will support the launch of tech startups that develop technologies in the education, health and soc... |
| 02.02.2016 | Meet the Newest VC Player: Sesame Street | Today’s letter of the day is “V” for venture capital. Sesame Street recently announced Monday, February 1, that it’s getting in on the investment game. The non-profit responsible for the show, Sesame Workshop, is partnering up with VC firms... |
| 01.02.2016 | Sesame Street launches its own venture capital fund to invest in children-focused startups | Today’s episode is brought to you by the letters ‘V’ and ‘C’.
Kids TV show Sesame Street has launched its own venture capital branch to invest in startups focusing on children’s education, development, health and nutrition.
The Collab+Sesam... |
| 01.02.2016 | Sesame Street launches its own venture capital fund to invest in children-focused startups | Today’s episode is brought to you by the letters ‘V’ and ‘C’.
Kids TV show Sesame Street has launched its own venture capital branch to invest in startups focusing on children’s education, development, health and nutrition.
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| 01.02.2016 | Yep, Sesame Street Now Has A Venture Fund | Collaborative Fund is bringing on a pretty big partner for a new seed-stage fund focused on improving children’s lives — and it’s not someone you’d expect to get into the venture capital game.
Craig Shapiro’s venture is launching a new $10 ... |
| 01.02.2016 | V Is for VC: Sesame Street Creator Launches $10 Million Venture Fund for Child Development | Beginning in 1969, Big Bird, Elmo and their furry Muppet pals took to television to regale children with lessons on love, fear and why it’s important to share your cookies. Now to reach kids on today’s mobile and digital devices, the creato... |
| 30.11.2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 30, 2015 | Atzuche completed a $47M funding; Bee secured $4.6M; Coconala raised $4.4M funding
StayGlad, an on-demand Beauty Services Platform for women, has raised an undisclosed amount in Series A round of funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners and... |
| 23.11.2015 | Entrepreneur behind ZipDrug latest example of advertising tech veterans’ interest in healthcare | About five months after a financing through convertible debt over the summer, ZipDrug has raised $2 million in a Seed round led by the Collaborative Fund. The funding round also had participation from Lux Capital, Metamorphic Ventures, Mont... |
| 11.11.2015 | CircleUp Raises $30M For Its Consumer Brand Crowdfunding Platform | CircleUp, an AngelList-style crowdfunding platform that consumer retail businesses like food companies use to raise money from outside investors, is announcing some funding of its own today. The company has raised a Series C round of $30 mi... |
| 11.11.2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 11, 2015 | Amplyx Pharmaceuticals bagged $40.5M; Perfecto Mobile secured $35M; EventBoard raised $6.5M funding
Last week an article in New York Magazine outlined a growing problem in businesses: the fight over meeting space. There are now 25 million m... |
| 10.11.2015 | Collaborative Fund Raises $70 Million For Its Third Fund | When Craig Shapiro and his team at Collaborative Fund are making investments, they don’t exactly ignore the devil on their shoulders. They look for companies that fall somewhere in the nexus between companies that will address the broader i... |
| 28.09.2015 | Daily funding roundup - September 28, 2015 | Kreditech raised $92M; Paintzen nabbed $7.2M; Simppler received $1.2M
If you're like me, your inbox is filled on a weekly basis with requests for references from recruiters seeking job candidates. Requests are often afforded a cursory look ... |
| 09.09.2015 | Daily funding roundup - September 9, 2015 | Didi Kuaidi scored $1B; Chef bagged $40M; Primus Power raised $25M
The battle for supremacy among e-hailing services in China is heating up, and fast. In the same week that Uber revealed that it has raised an additional $1.2 billion to expa... |
| 19.07.2015 | The rise of the thematic VC and what it means for founders | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Thematic venture capital funds have come into vog... |
| 19.07.2015 | The rise of the thematic VC and what it means for founders | Thematic venture capital funds have come into vogue over the last decade. Firms used to be generalists and VC was an artisanal craft largely organized by stage and fund size. Today there are hardware funds, B2B funds, and funds with very ex... |
| 17.07.2015 | Daily funding roundup - July 17, 2015 | Protagonist Therapeutics bagged $40M; Upstart raised $35M; Courtagen secured $20M
CredSimple, a startup building a medical credentialing database, snagged $1.5 million in seed funding to help healthcare and insurance companies manage their ... |
| 19.05.2015 | Collaborative Fund Closes Third Venture Capital Fund at $65M | According to a filing with the S.E.C., NYC-based venture capital firm Collaborative Fund closed its third round at $65m.
33 investors participated in the fundraising.
Founded by Craig Shapiro and also led by Kanyi Maqubela and Jungju Kim, C... |
| 04.05.2015 | Kano Raises $15M in Series A Funding | Kano, a London, UK-based computer building kit, raised $15m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Breyer Capital, with participation from Collaborative Fund and Jim O’Neill.
The company intends to use the funds to extend the product pla... |
| 14.10.2014 | Understanding Exo’s cricket cookies | This may sound a little bit off our beat but we’re lumping Exo Protein into our tech coverage because, well, they are definitely hackers. They are hacking food. By taking the familiar snack bar and making it out of crickets, it’s hard to ar... |
