# Craig Shapiro

> Craig Shapiro is a seed investor at Collaborative Fund backing Food and Beverage and E-Commerce. See 33 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Collaborative Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/collaborative-fund)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 33
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 30%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/craig-shapiro/0/737/91b
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/cshapiro
- Website: http://www.cshapiro.com

Craig Shapiro is a seed investor at Collaborative Fund in New York focused on Food and Beverage and E-Commerce. Craig Shapiro is the Founder and Managing Partner of Collaborative Fund, a venture capital fund investing at the intersection of for-profit & for-good. He has invested in a number of category defining businesses, such as: Beyond Meat, Blue Bottle Coffee, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Facebook, Kickstarter, Lyft, Reddit, Sweetgreen, and Upstart.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Food and Beverage | 5 | 15% |
| E-Commerce | 4 | 12% |
| Delivery | 3 | 9% |
| Software | 3 | 9% |
| Nutrition | 3 | 9% |

77 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 14 | 42% |
| Series A | 8 | 24% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 9% |
| Series B | 2 | 6% |
| Series C | 1 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 20 | 61% |
| Australia | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dandelion Energy | Dandelion Energy offers affordable geothermal heating and cooling installations.Dandelion Energy's home geothermal system replaces your home’s existing air conditioning and heating equipment with a powerful heat pump and safe, underground pipes that move heat between the earth and home.Kathleen Hannun and Rajeez Quazi founded it in 2017,with its headquarters in Palo Alto in California. | $40M | Series C | Sep 24, 2024 |  |
| MeliBio | MeliBio is a technology-based company focusing on plant biology, precision fermentation, and food science that replaces honeybees with microorganisms as a medium for honey production. The company was founded in 2020 by Aaron M. Schaller, PhD and Darko Mandich and is headquartered in Oakland, California, United States. TIME named MeliBio'sapproach in making honey without bees as Best Inventions 2021. In 2023, MeliBio launched consumer-facing brand Mellody. | $2.2M | Seed | Nov 29, 2022 |  |
| Dandelion Energy | Dandelion Energy offers affordable geothermal heating and cooling installations.Dandelion Energy's home geothermal system replaces your home’s existing air conditioning and heating equipment with a powerful heat pump and safe, underground pipes that move heat between the earth and home.Kathleen Hannun and Rajeez Quazi founded it in 2017,with its headquarters in Palo Alto in California. | $70M | Series B | Nov 15, 2022 |  |
| Neutral | Neutral is a carbon-neutral food company that builds a sustainable carbon-neutral food ecosystem starting with milk and a half and half.The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Portland, OR. | $12M | Series A | Aug 31, 2022 |  |
| Street FC | Street FC operates a football club to make soccer accessible to as many people as possible. It develops a technology that specializes in connecting a community of players online and offline by organizing fast-paced street soccer games on hard surfaces. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in New York. | $2.2M | Seed | Aug 17, 2022 |  |
| Flourish Labs | Flourish Labs is a purpose-driven startup combining cutting edge mental health science and technology to foster flourishing and good mental health. Our mission is to mobilize and scale professional peer support with tech to address the mental health crisis. | $6.4M | Seed | Jul 20, 2022 |  |
| MeliBio | MeliBio is a technology-based company focusing on plant biology, precision fermentation, and food science that replaces honeybees with microorganisms as a medium for honey production. The company was founded in 2020 by Aaron M. Schaller, PhD and Darko Mandich and is headquartered in Oakland, California, United States. TIME named MeliBio'sapproach in making honey without bees as Best Inventions 2021. In 2023, MeliBio launched consumer-facing brand Mellody. | $5.7M | Seed | Mar 17, 2022 |  |
| Zoomo | Zoomo is a provider of electric bikes accessed via subscription models to help gig workers in the food delivery industry. Zoomo's high-quality LEV (light electric vehicle) range includes e-Bike, e-Moped, and e-Cargo options.Zoomo plans to use the funding to add new corporate categories such as parcel, mail, and grocery deliveries that itsbikes can be used for as well as other models better suited for individual consumers. | $20.1M | Series B | Feb 21, 2022 |  |
| Kula Bio | Kula Bio specializes in sustainable, biological solutions for modern agriculture. It energizes nitrogen-fixing microbes to produce organic fertilizer. By rewiring the energy flow from the sun to soil, they are disrupting synthetic fertilizer to eliminate the division between affordable practices and stewardship of our land, sea, and air.Thecompany was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts. | $50M | Series A | Jan 03, 2022 |  |
| Spoiler Alert | Spoiler Alert is a Boston-based software company helping perishable CPG brands manage excess and slow-moving inventory. Working exclusively at the manufacturing plant or distribution center level, Spoiler Alert offers a best-in-class B2B sales platform that enables food & beverage brands to manage their liquidation processes across a privatenetwork of discount retailers and nonprofit channels - with a heavy focus on maximizing value recovery, strengthening customer relationships, and increasing the effectiveness of supply chain managers tasked with handling these typically manual sales processes. Founded by alumni of MIT, Spoiler Alert works with some of the world's largest brands, including Campbell's, Danone, HelloFresh, KeHE Distributors, and Kraft Heinz, along with a growing network of discount channels committed to increasing affordable food access and reducing food waste. | $11M | Series A | Dec 01, 2021 |  |

10 of 33 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Breakthrough Energy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breakthrough-energy-ventures) — VC Fund, 8 deals together
- [Building Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/building-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Ground Up Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ground-up-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [LenX](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lenx) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Collaborative Fund

VC Fund · New York, United States

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.

5 contacts available at Collaborative Fund.

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

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## FAQ

### What does Craig Shapiro invest in?

Craig Shapiro invests primarily in Food and Beverage, E-Commerce and Delivery startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 33 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Craig Shapiro last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Craig Shapiro closed in Sep 2024. Shizune tracks 33 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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