Collateral Good
VC Fund
Pfäffikon, Switzerland
Collateral Good is a VC fund in Pfäffikon focused on Manufacturing and Chemical. Collateral Good Ventures is a technology-focused venture capital firm founded in 2022 by molecular and cell biologist Dr Regina Hecker and serial entrepreneur and investor Michael Kleindl. The founders and team of Collateral Good Ventures feel responsible for contributing with their means (human and capital) to help the world eat better andmitigate climate change.Collateral Good Ventures is dedicated to collaborating and supporting visionary business leaders who are ambitious and focused on how their business can be a positive force for stakeholders, communities and nature as a whole, companies that do “collateral good”, i.e. providing for their stakeholders while intrinsically contributing to social and environmental impact. Each opportunity has to have the potential to generate significant returns on capital and impact.The underlying mission of the managed funds is to support and promote a positive, measurable social and global environmental impact alongside a significant financial return. The main focus areas are plant-based and novel ingredients, cellular agriculture (clean meat), food waste, food as medicine, personal nutrition and sustainable packaging.The firm has committed that all strategies follow Art 9 under the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).
- Total investments:
- 12
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
- Fund size:
- $108M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Collateral Good invests in
Stages Collateral Good invests in
Countries Collateral Good invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.8M–$8.2M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $4.1M–$33M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Manufacturing 4 (33%)
- Chemical 2 (17%)
- Textiles 2 (17%)
- Recycling 2 (17%)
- Biotechnology 2 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (33%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (25%)
- Funding Round 2 (17%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (8%)
- Series A 1 (8%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mariana Gonzalez
Co-Founder & Principal
|
Co-Founder & Principal | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Michael Kleindl
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 25 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ravel is a waste management company that offers purification recycling services for blended textiles. | $8.2M / Seed / Sep 17, 2026 | ||
| Climatex offers climate risk analytics and patented textile separation technologies. | $4.1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 20, 2026 | ||
| Synflux is a fashion, design, and technology professional firm that does design and research and takes on the challenge of innovative development and social implementation. It is a digital technology combining AI, 3D technology, and blockchain. For inquiries, an online inquiry form is available on their website. | $1.7M / Jan 15, 2026 | ||
| Chromologics develops innovative natural food colorants. Chromologics is a Danish biotech spin-out from the Technical University of Denmark. We have developed a fungal biotech platform for the production of novel, natural colorants. | $8.1M / Venture - Series Unknown / Nov 18, 2025 | ||
| Brightplus is an innovative renewable materials manufacturing company from Finland. We specialise in design and development of new functional properties for industrial biomaterial solutions. We cater for industries like packaging, construction, cosmetics and consumer goods. Our expertise is based on developing solutions to multiple industries andproviding fast prototyping and full fit for customers’ production lines. Our deep chemical BrightBio® technology creates an optimal fit between coatings, barriers and plastic replacing materials to help you in raising your material functionality to the next level. | $2.3M / Jul 15, 2025 | ||
| Ravel is a waste management company that offers purification recycling services for blended textiles. | Pre-Seed / Mar 11, 2025 | ||
| Nfinite Nanotechnology is an advanced material company that enables breakthrough innovations to redefine how we live, use, and create using open-air atomic layer deposition (ALD) technology. Nfinite makes functional nanomaterials that accelerate the development and commercialization of transformative technologies for a sustainable future, such assustainable packaging, batteries, and photovoltaics. They have created a rapid open-air nanocoating system that produces large-area, high-quality, ultrathin films at up to 100x the speed of conventional ALD at a lower cost. | $6.5M / Seed / May 14, 2024 | ||
| Polytag is a recycling technology firm designed to improve packaging connectivity and circularity. | $3.7M / Series A / Mar 11, 2024 | ||
| sykell developing scalable and sustainable packaging and pooling solutions for retail, gastronomy and catering industry. | $5M / Seed / May 03, 2023 | ||
| On DP we believe that humanity deserves a new generations of ingredient to improve our health. To do that we created Arya, our platform of discovery and development of new ingredients that combines fermentations technologies with circular economy.This new ingredients allow us to reduces the uses of salt in several applications or create sustitutesof animals meat usisng micoproteins. | $1.8M / Seed / Feb 13, 2023 | ||
| See all 12 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Collateral Good invest in?
Collateral Good invests primarily in Manufacturing, Chemical and Textiles startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Chile. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Collateral Good's check size?
Collateral Good typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$8.2M at Seed and $4.1M–$33M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Collateral Good participates in.
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Who are the partners at Collateral Good?
The team at Collateral Good includes Mariana Gonzalez (Co-Founder & Principal) and Michael Kleindl (Managing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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