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Seabound: Charting a Course to Decarbonize Shipping

We are thrilled to share the news of our most recent investment in Seabound, a groundbreaking company we first encountered…

Three Questions for Netflix Co-Founder Marc Randolph

Marc Randolph is the co-founder and first CEO of Netflix.

Announcing our Investment in pH7 Technologies

pH7 Technologies: Pioneering Sustainable Metal Extraction.

Collab’s Sustainability Board: Stacy Kauk from Shopify

We’re thrilled to introduce you to another member of Collab’s Sustainability Board – Stacy Kauk.

Our Investment in Alga Bio

As a child, each morning I would bolt from my bed to the breakfast table to ensure that my brothers…

Collab’s Sustainability Board: Vanessa Miler-Fels

We’re thrilled to introduce you to another member of Collab’s Sustainability Board – Vanessa Miler Fels.

Ben Goldhirsh and Barack Obama

Ben Goldhirsh is an entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist.

Collab’s Sustainability Board

We’re thrilled to introduce you to Collab’s Sustainability Board.

Six Questions for Hannah Ritchie, Our World In Data

Our World In Data is one of our favorite resources.

WeaveGrid

When it comes to electrifying transportation, the future has arrived ahead of schedule.

Shared Future: What We’ve Learned So Far

We launched Collab’s Shared Future in March 2022.

A New Fund and a Call to Action

Collab Fund has raised a $200M fund to invest in companies fueling a consumer economy based on more sustainable goods…

Investing in Scope Zero

We often think about the various ways to make our economy more sustainable, whether it be through industrial emissions, bio-derived…

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Early Stage Empresas

We’ve used The Villain Test as part of the investment philosophy at Collaborative Fund for more than 10 years by…

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Dad Quotes

In honor of the holiday season, I wanted to do some reflecting on family and the memories I’ve compiled over…

To the Moon? Venture Capital Trends

There is no shortage of the word “unprecedented” when describing the last two years.

Lessons from the Sea

One of my great privileges is living in Los Angeles, close to the Pacific Ocean.

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How We Look at Carbon Removal

Climate technologies are all the rage these days, with investors pouring around ~16B into the space through mid-year 2021.

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Fresh Insights Into The Growing Home Garden Trend

62% of Americans want to grow their own food, according to Collaborative Fund’s latest research into micro-farming and the home…

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Announcing $200M in New Funds for Entrepreneurs Pushing the World Forward

Today, we’re proud to announce that we’ve raised $200 million across two new funds — Collaborative V and Collaborative Growth.

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Investing At The Later Stage

Collaborative Fund’s focus is investing in startups at the beginning of their journey.

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Auto inventory…

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Getting rid of SAT requirements…

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Part II: Collab x The Climate Crisis

In Part I, we covered why we believe there has never been a better time to start a company addressing…

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Growing too fast…

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CookUnity

Technology enables the most talented individuals to be able to scale and distribute their gifts to the millions who want…

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Why Moderna won…

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Part I: Collab x The Climate Crisis

Climate technology has not been an obvious fit for venture capital.

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Oula Health

Care delivery models that reduce cost while improving patient outcomes are central to our health investment thesis here at Collaborative…

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The Virtual Care Tech Stack

Virtual care infrastructure was designed to fill gaps in an ecosystem where most people see their provider face to face.

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NYC: Looking To Its Past To Understand Its Future

There has been a lot of recent talk about the impending death of New York City.

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College admissions…

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Healthcare: What Happens Next

When trying to predict what’s going to happen to the US healthcare system, the safest bet is usually nothing.

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Tipping Point in Fighting Police Brutality

Network effect products are driven by their product or service gaining additional value from each and every incremental user.

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Technology’s Role in Uncovering Racism

In light of recent events in our country, it feels unimportant to write about anything but social justice.

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A Livestream Future or a Livestream Moment

In the weeks since Covid struck, there has been an eruption of livestream startups sprouting up for seemingly every use…

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College reform…

Focus On The End Goal

Coronavirus is a wrench in the forecasts of most companies.

Monument

In the spring of 2014, I reached out cold to Mike Russell and Justin Geller to discuss the business they…

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Particle Health

We’re thrilled to announce our investment in Particle Health.

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The smartphone camera changes history…

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Health…

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How Things Have Gotten Better

Things tend to get better over time.

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Nico: The Neighborhood Investment Company

Strong neighborhoods are essential to vibrant cities.

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A 15-year-old describes Instagram…

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Risk-Based Care

There are few things as hard to move as the US healthcare system.

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Humility…

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NYC packages…

Adding Work As A Category

People work, and they usually work a lot.

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Negative interest rates…

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Air-conditioning…

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Questions to ask before starting a business…

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This Isn’t Your Grandmother’s Tech Company, But It Should Be

There seems to be a consensus that older people aren’t tech users: they’re resistant to change and uninterested in learning…

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Realtor fees…

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Ten Hundred Words of Crypto: Bit Money, A Person-to-Person Computer Money Thing

This series of posts is going to be a little…different.

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Currency…

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Getting ahead…

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Unpopular Opinions in Crypto

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its popularity.

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StarkWare

Now that we’ve lifted the veil on Collaborative’s crypto investing efforts, we plan to start providing some commentary on our…

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Sleep As Medicine

Health is complicated. Our day-to-day wellbeing and long-term outcomes are determined by many interrelated factors.

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The Next Wave of Plant-Based Alternatives

Beyond Meat’s coming IPO makes clear: something has fundamentally changed in how Americans think about their animal protein consumption.

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Step

Every parent wants to impart core values and basic life skills to their kids.

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Healthcare - What We’re Looking For

There is a consensus that healthcare is broken – 70% of Americans believe that the US healthcare system is either…

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What We Learned This Year

This was a big year for Collaborative Fund.

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For Days

Collaborative Fund began with a thesis that a sharing economy would emerge to monetize underutilized assets and ensure more efficient…

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Fourpost

Fourpost offers both emerging and established brands barrier-free, turnkey access to physical retail and consumers through storefronts in a shared…

Endless West

Artisanal. Handmade.

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Foxtrot

We are thinking a lot more about the future of retail here at Collaborative.

Gem

Today we’re thrilled to announce our investment in Gem, which launched today as the first FDA approved, real-food vitamin supplement…

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Consumption as Identity (Not as Crazy as It Sounds)

When Collaborative Fund started, we believed we’d see a radical shift in consumer behavior toward values-led brands and shared resources.

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Calling Others to Join Collaborative Fund (Update)

In the spirit of collaboration and new practice sharing so we can all work towards better and more equitable workplaces…

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Collab+Sesame Just Became Lovevery’s Biggest institutional Investor. Here’s Why.

A couple months ago, some design-obsessed friends anticipating their first child posted about an amusing conflict: one wanted a beautiful…

Delicious New Protein Source, starting with a Salmon Burger: Terramino Foods

We’ve all heard this: Today’s animal farming and growing protein consumption is unsustainable.

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Kicking Off Collaborative Fund IV - What We’re Looking For

We recently announced our new $100M early stage fund that we closed in May, along with a series of new…

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Calling Others To Join Collaborative Fund

We are kicking off a search for analysts to join Collaborative Fund as part of a new two-year analyst program.

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Children’s Privacy in the Age of Cambridge Analytica

It’s hard to imagine how anyone born in the last 15 years could one day run for office without a…

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The Next Wave: Digital Detox

Natural disasters. Emails 24/7.

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The Generation that Tech Forgot

There’s a group of people who comprise a third of the US population, account for half of consumer spending, and…

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Disrupting Investors’ Own Game

The number of public companies has been cut in half over the last 20 years, as the amount of capital…

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Six Questions for Steve Case

The first generation of workers who have never lived without the internet is just now entering the workforce.

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Rethinking Education

Technology offers incredible potential to make kids’ education more accessible, exciting, and effective.

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What’s Dandelion?

Heating and cooling your home is an enormous cost for a service most of us can’t live without driven largely…

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The Courage of Speaking Up

Where do we start…

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In Defense of B Corporations

Does being a B corporation really matter…

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Student Loans: Averting a Generational Crisis

Student loans outstanding just passed $1.4 trillion.

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Why We’re Wearing Red Today

International Women’s Day (IWD) is a good reminder of what’s been accomplished – and what hasn’t – in the 106…

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Winning Big on the American Dream

Lindsay Holden believes in the American dream—the idea that every citizen can achieve success and a happy life through hard…

“Insurance Is Sold, Not Bought.”

In an influential 1979 behavioral economics paper, Daniel Kahneman and his colleague Amos Tversky developed “Prospect Theory” as a way to…

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MAYA: Most Advanced Yet Acceptable

Two anecdotes stuck out to me in Derek Thompson’s Atlantic post about “The Four-Letter Code to Selling Just About Anything.”.

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Problems We Want Solved

Billions of people wake up every day trying to solve the world’s problems.

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You Should Treat Fundraising Like Dating. Here’s Why.

Trust matters more than anything.

Labor and Leisure

Oddly, the structure of the 7-day week, unlike 24, 30 or 365, does not have a basis in the rotations…

Six Questions for Dan Gardner

Humans aren’t very good at forecasting.

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Six Questions For Dan Pink

Part of our investing philosophy is the belief that finance is, at its core, a behavioral field.

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Six Questions for Josh Brown

There are lots of insightful people.

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What’s Good for the Mom is Good for the Baby (and Good for Business)

A few weeks ago, Obstetrics and Gynecology released a study showing how the US has defied global trends by experiencing…

Evolutions In Language and Culture

This weekend I was discussing the 2016 Nobel Laureates for Economics with my wife.

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Leah Busque’s Biggest Task Yet: Building a Community of Trust

Leah Busque was getting ready to head out the door to dinner with her husband when they realized that they…

Announcing KidTech

We’re excited to announce KidTech, a new site we launched today to shine a spotlight on great, innovative products that…

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The way we talk about exit matters.

WalMart announced a $3.3B acquisition of Jet.com last week, accompanied by press (e.g.

Things We Make, Things We Grow

A few months ago I was having breakfast with a mentor and investor of ours, who said something very interesting…

A New Basis For Brand Loyalty

Brand loyalty, for CPG and retail companies, can be tough to achieve, but once unlocked, can be a transformative force…

Put down Pokémon Go, kids: there’s something better

For all its challenges, being a kid right now is pretty darn cool.

The Business of Good Style

Shirley Kurata was 19 when she decided to move to Paris to study fashion.

Adventuring with Sawyer, One Kids’ Class at a Time

Marissa Evans Alden was a college student when she started her first company.

Grow the Pie (not Your Slice)

It’s incredibly common to hear the following as a seed stage VC: “I decided to hire [junior employee X…

Leveling Up

Ryan Caldbeck wants to level the playing field.

Putting Parents’ Oxygen Masks on First

Discussion about parental leave has reached a fever pitch these last few weeks, and it marks an important turning point…

Wait, What Is Technology?

To start, I consulted the official definitions, to see if I could anchor in something that I understood well.

Hydrating the World

Mike Del Ponte was standing in a puddle of spilled water when he first got the idea for Soma, a…

The Case for a Millennial Ronald McDonald

Marketing to kids is big business.

The Baby-Sitters Club v2.0

At Collab+Sesame, we think that helping families is one of the most important ways to help kids.

Do Your Research Before Changing the World

Shivani Siroya knows what it means to do your research.

Eliminate the Friction

When life hands Steven van Wel a frustrating problem, he builds a startup.

Talk It Out

From cave drawings to Snapchatting, the way we communicate with each other has changed a lot.

Investing in the next generation

Investments in child development are creating tremendous opportunities to build massively successful businesses and have a positive social impact.

Starting up to solve the right problem

When Tristan Walker first heard about Foursquare, he knew that it was something he wanted to be a part of.

Getting creative within constraints

Photo @MaxJoseph.

Q&A with Chuck Templeton

Chuck Templeton is a serial entrepreneur, founder of OpenTable, and former Director of Grubhub.

A history lesson with Tom McMurray

From 1990-1998 Tom was a general partner at Sequoia Capital, one of the leading venture capital firms in the world.

Empowering creativity through mistakes

Photo by Elizabeth Lippman.

Some good eggs

When Rob Spiro set out to build Good Eggs, he didn’t have a product, a business plan, or even a…

With noses pressed against the glass

The more I think about it, the more strongly I believe that there are a few ways to think about…

What would you build if you could reach 490 million users?

Collaborative Fund and LINE have partnered to invest in companies that can leverage a fast growing mobile platform.

21st century unions

Unions were a fixture of the 20th century, serving as a stabilizing force against corporate and investor interests in business…

Goodness, power, and data

Today we announced an investment in Placemeter, alongside some great partners.

What does peer-to-peer look like at scale?

I’ve been thinking about peer-to-peer models today, and what early learnings signify for how these businesses might work at scale.

To change culture, be a sheep in wolf’s clothing

A successful company, in my mind, is one who changes culture for the better.

Why Minecraft is the new Microsoft Office

While news of the Apple Watch has been dominating the news cycle, we also learned that Microsoft is in talks…

Why Wouldn’t a Founder Want to Exit?

At Collaborative Fund, we’ve been talking about how investors and founders can align incentives for the long run.

How A 10-year Fund Life Impacts Your Startup

Venture capital Limited Partner Agreements look very similar.

Collaborative & CircleUp Announcement

We’ve heard many times that it’s easier and cheaper to launch a company than ever before.

Parsing The ‘Venture Subsidy’

There is a subtle but very important distinction between venture capital “subsidizing” a service-oriented business, and a service-oriented business that…

Let’s PlayAlong!

We like to experiment at Collaborative Fund.

This Week in Collaborative Fund

Our weekly update highlighting new products and jobs in our portfolio.

What Is Citizenship On The Internet?

Lately, crowdsourcing is almost a dirty word.

Making Sense Of Connected Devices

There are a number of ways to connect hardware to the internet.

Stop, Get Out, Unplug…And Notice

Great product design starts with understanding context, behavior, and motivation.

How Do You Stay Relevant When Your Job Is Obsolete?

If you search your memory (aka the web for some of us) for careers that don’t exist anymore you’ll end…

Why does eBay still use seller ratings?

On peer-to-peer platforms, trust and safety is of paramount importance.

This Week in Collaborative Fund

Our weekly update highlighting new products and jobs in our portfolio.

It’s Time To Start Making Data Networks Simple

I saw this tweet over the weekend and thought it was pretty cool…

Change Culture By Making Big Bets

It is instructive, when thinking about venture capital, to consider a venture firm as a two-sided marketplace.

This Week in Collaborative Fund

Our weekly update highlighting new products and jobs in our portfolio.

How Quarterly Became A Platform For Empowering Creative Entrepreneurs

I recently discovered that Magic is Art created a thirty second video promoting his Quarterly subscription.

How Your 8-year Old Is Building A Digital Reputation

One of my favorite posts here at Progress Report was written by Kanyi Maqubela regarding how the credit score is outdated (If…

Win a Scholarship for Seth Godin’s Skillshare Class

The New Business Toolbox: Help Your New Business Do It Right The First Time.

The “Uber of X” Companies Are Only Halfway There

2013 was a big year for Uber.

Building From Your Insight

I’ve been helping out a great team launching an interesting retail company.

This Week in Collaborative Fund

Our weekly update highlighting exciting news about our portfolio and the unique opportunities to join the companies. .

Introducing Collaborative Market

Explore the site and discover new ways to Learn, Make, Read and Play.

Your Ideas Won’t Build Themselves

I work with many small organizations that want to grow their business and impact.

Founders First: DIY

DIY is the best way for kids to get skills, meet others who share the same passions, and generally be awesome.

This Month at Collaborative Fund – Portfolio Updates & Job Opportunities

Our team shares a weekly internal email that highlights exciting news about our portfolio and the unique opportunities to join…

Will [] Make The World Better?

Comic from XKCD.

What Happens When The Peer Economy Grows Up?

Every online marketplace expert will tell you: start with supply.

Build Design Culture, Don’t Wait For It

Last week, I spent an afternoon with the design team at Percolate.

If FICO & Klout Had A Baby

Credit, though we take it for granted, is a revolutionary human invention.

Founders First: Quarterly Co.

Quarterly is a new way to connect with the people you follow and find interesting.

An Update On 1099.is – 42 Million People Are Currently In The Independent Workforce

For those who don’t know, 1099.is is a website that helps everyone involved in the sharing economy (and more broadly…

Putting Sensors To Work For Us

Like I said: Optimistic.

Future Of Payments

Communication protocols on the internet are both wildly varied and constantly evolving.

Should Non-Profits Act More Like Tech Start-Ups?

Nonprofits can be slow-moving organizations, with lots of decision-making layers and bureaucratic stickiness.

Translating Big Ambition Into Great Design

We’re excited by entrepreneurs building businesses, brands, and marketplaces that make the world better and our lives more interesting.

Disruption In Food

The term disruption gets a lot of airtime in the innovation community.

Who Really Should Learn How To Code?

I started coding way before the public Internet became available.

Introducing 1099.is, An Online Tax Resource For The Sharing Economy

If you’ve raised startup seed money recently you’re surely familiar with Series Seed documents.

Founders First: Grand St.

Produced by Show Love.

Announcing Social Citizens! A Partnership With The Case Foundation Promoting Social Entrepreneurship And Impact

From its inception, Social Citizens has served to spark discourse around the ideas we hold dear: collaboration, transparency, and social…

The Sharing Economy is coming of age

In San Francisco, you can find the “Airbnb-of-everything.” Just as Airbnb capitalized on the fact that many of us have…

From editor to investor

I tend to avoid telling people I’m an “investor” or a “writer/editor.” The truth is, I don’t know, and suspect…

Create a community before launching

4 reasons to create a community in your industry before launching your startup…

Backing the Shared Future

Here we are! Collaborative is officially open for business.