Emerson Collective
VC Fund
Palo Alto, United States
Emerson Collective is an organization dedicated to removing barriers to opportunity so people can live to their full potential. Established and led by Laurene Powell Jobs, we center our work on education, immigration reform, the environment, and other social justice initiatives. We use a wide range of tools and strategies—partnering withentrepreneurs and experts, parents and policymakers, advocates and administrators—to develop and execute innovative solutions that will spur change and promote equality.
- Total investments:
- 172
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 16%
Last updated:
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Industries Emerson Collective invests in
Stages Emerson Collective invests in
Countries Emerson Collective invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 22 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$14M
- Series A
- $7.5M–$100M
- Series B
- $15M–$150M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 24 (14%)
- Health Care 19 (11%)
- Biotechnology 19 (11%)
- Education 17 (10%)
- EdTech 11 (6%)
Stage
- Series A 27 (16%)
- Series B 27 (16%)
- Seed 22 (13%)
- Series C 20 (12%)
- Series D 17 (10%)
Country
- United States 94 (55%)
- Canada 2 (1%)
- France 2 (1%)
- United Kingdom 2 (1%)
- Norway 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Arne Duncan
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Sarah A. Pinto Peyronel
Partner (Senior Director)
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Partner (Senior Director) | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Steve McDermid
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Amy Low
Managing Director, Communications
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Managing Director, Communications | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Anne Marie Burgoyne
Managing Director, Social Innovation
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Managing Director, Social Innovation | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 22 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| InduPro is a biotechnology company that specializes in protein therapeutics and cell-surface platform technologies. | $77M / Series B / Aug 12, 2026 | ||
| GridCARE provides energy security and resilience at a never-before-seen pace, making it the indispensable one-stop power solution for AI data centers. | $64M / Series A / May 14, 2026 | ||
| The aim of Ultralight is to empower healthcare professionals to take charge of the future and make today's lives more lively. | $9.3M / Seed / Apr 13, 2026 | ||
| Stipple Bio is a biotech company that focuses on advancing cellular profiling and target discovery using epitope-level resolution technologies. It develops proprietary platforms that analyze cellular interactions, enabling researchers to identify precise therapeutic targets for drug development. The company’s approach is particularly applied inoncology, where it aims to discover tumor-specific cell surface epitopes to create safer and more effective treatments. Its “Pointillist” platform is designed to map these epitopes with high precision, helping overcome limitations of traditional therapies such as off-target toxicity. | $100M / Series A / Apr 06, 2026 | ||
World Labs
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World Labs is an AI startup that can analyze visual data with comprehension akin to a person's, a substantial advancement above existing capacities. | $1B / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 18, 2026 | |
| Midi Health provides virtual healthcare services focused on midlife women’s health, especially around hormonal changes such as perimenopause and menopause, through personalized care plans delivered by clinicians trained in these areas. Its services include telehealth consultations that can integrate prescription support, supplements, lifestyleguidance, and symptom-specific treatments to address issues like weight, mood, sleep, and sexual wellness. Midi Health also offers tailored support protocols that consider an individual’s health history and goals to guide ongoing care. Its platform makes care accessible online and works with insurance for coverage of visits and prescriptions. The company additionally offers targeted supplements designed to complement its clinical care approach. | $100M / Series D / Feb 03, 2026 | ||
| Chai Discovery creates Chai-1, a multi-modal foundation model designed for predicting molecular structures relevant to drug discovery. The model facilitates the unified prediction of proteins, small molecules, and nucleic acids, and is available for free for commercial applications. By enabling accurate predictions without the need for multiplesequence alignments, Chai-1 advances the capabilities of molecular modeling in the life sciences. | $130M / Series B / Dec 15, 2025 | ||
| Harmonic builds mathematical superintelligence. The company develops Mathematical Superintelligence (MSI), a next-generation artificial intelligence based on mathematical principles that ensures accuracy and eliminate hallucinations. | $120M / Series C / Nov 25, 2025 | ||
| X-Energy is a nuclear reactor and fuel design engineering company that develops Generation IV, high-temperature gas-cooled small modular reactors (SMRs) together with proprietary TRISO-X particle fuel. Their flagship reactor, the Xe-100, delivers about 80 MWe per unit and can be scaled in modular “packs” to reach higher output. X-Energy also buildsits own TRISO-X fuel to maintain supply control and quality. In addition, the company operates a plant support center to provide fleet monitoring, maintenance planning, training, and diagnostics for its reactor customers. | $700M / Series D / Nov 24, 2025 | ||
| Commonwealth Fusion Systems develops fusion energy systems using high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets to create compact tokamak reactors. It is building SPARC, a demonstration device designed to achieve net energy gain from fusion and laying the groundwork for ARC, a grid-connected fusion power plant targeting early 2030s operation. Thecompany partners with MIT and manufactures its HTS magnets and related components, applying peer-reviewed science in its firewalling of plasma and reactor engineering. It has introduced innovations like the PIT VIPER superconducting cable to support pulsed-power magnet systems and accelerate readiness for commercial fusion. | $863M / Series B / Aug 27, 2025 | ||
| See all 172 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Emerson Collective invest in?
Emerson Collective invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Biotechnology startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 172 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 Emerson Collective's check size?
Emerson Collective typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$14M at Seed, $7.5M–$100M at Series A and $15M–$150M 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 Emerson Collective participates in.
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Who are the partners at Emerson Collective?
The team at Emerson Collective includes Arne Duncan (Managing Partner), Sarah A. Pinto Peyronel (Partner (Senior Director)) and Steve McDermid (Managing Director), among 22 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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