# Collaborative Fund

> Collaborative Fund is a VC fund backing Software and Food and Beverage. See 335 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 335
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last fund: Jun 2024
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/collaborative-fund/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/collabfund
- Website: http://www.collaborativefund.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/collabfund

Collaborative Fund is an investment fund that provides funding to companies based on creativity and collaborative consumption. The fund centers around two macro themes which drives business innovation in the coming years: the growth of the creative class and the concept of collaborative consumption. Craig Shapiro founded it in New York in 2010.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Collaborative Fund. Shizune tracks 10 team members at Collaborative Fund. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/collaborative-fund?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$11M |
| Series A | $4.7M–$40M |
| Series B | $18M–$85M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 36 | 11% |
| Food and Beverage | 34 | 10% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 29 | 9% |
| Health Care | 27 | 8% |
| Financial Services | 24 | 7% |

279 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 147 | 44% |
| Series A | 77 | 23% |
| Series B | 24 | 7% |
| Pre-Seed | 19 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 17 | 5% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 212 | 63% |
| United Kingdom | 9 | 3% |
| South Korea | 5 | 1% |
| France | 4 | 1% |
| Chile | 2 | 1% |

23 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Guy Vidra | Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guy-vidra |
| Jungju Kim | Partner | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jung-ju-kim |
| Bryan Chang | Principal | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bryan-chang |
| Craig Dalton | VP Portfolio | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craig-dalton |
| Craig Shapiro | Founder & Managing Partner | 33 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/craig-shapiro |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Osmo Studio | Agentic video editing for motion graphics and post-prod. Launch films, storytelling and new media for frontier tech co's | $5M | Seed | Aug 05, 2026 |  |
| Hippo Harvest | Hippo Harvest develops an agriculture technology to help scale sustainable agriculture. It was founded in 2019 and is based in Half Moon Bay, California. | $30M | Series C | Jul 09, 2026 |  |
| Fuse Energy | Fuse is an energy supplier that offers the UK's cheapest electricity tarif. Also active in the US. | $30M | Series B | Jun 04, 2026 |  |
| Mentat | Mentat is a legal tech company that offers an AI powered platform for legal document preparation. | $737K | Seed | May 12, 2026 |  |
| Era | Era AI, a startup building a software platform for AI‑powered consumer gadgets and peripherals. | $9M | Seed | Apr 23, 2026 |  |
| Plume | Plume makes it easy to improve home energy efficiency by assessing home, suggesting upgrades, and finding trusted contractors. | $3.9M | Seed | Apr 09, 2026 |  |
| Highlight | Highlight is an AI company that offers an on-screen virtual assistant that helps AI models understand desktop activity. | $40M | Series A | Mar 24, 2026 |  |
| Good Girl Snacks | Good Girl Snacks is a consumer snacks company that offers organic and flavorful pickled products. | $3M | Seed | Mar 19, 2026 |  |
| Osmo | Osmo gives computers a sense of smell that improves the health & wellbeing of human life. | $70M | Series B | Feb 04, 2026 |  |
| CAMBIOTICS | Cambiotics mission is to reducing the widespread presence of chemicals in the body whc are spread through various everyday products like non stick cookware, cosmetics, food wrapers and water. | $4.7M | Seed | Feb 02, 2026 |  |

10 of 335 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Collaborative Fund invest in?

Collaborative Fund invests primarily in Software, Food and Beverage and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 335 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Collaborative Fund's check size?

Collaborative Fund typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$11M at Seed, $4.7M–$40M at Series A and $18M–$85M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Collaborative Fund participates in.

### How do I contact Collaborative Fund?

Public channels for Collaborative Fund include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Collaborative Fund?

The team at Collaborative Fund includes Guy Vidra (Partner), Jungju Kim (Partner) and Bryan Chang (Principal), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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