# The Community Fund

> The Community Fund is a VC fund in New York backing Women's and Health Care. See 22 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 22
- Last investment: Apr 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Fund size: $5M
- Last fund: Oct 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-community-fund-vc
- Website: https://thecommunity.vc

The Community Fund is a $5 million early-stage fund investing in community-driven companies through an investment partner team. The investment team consists of operators, founders, and investors that bring a wide range of complementary functional and industry expertise. The Community Fund is led by Lolita Taub and Jesse Middleton.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$4.4M |
| Pre-Seed | $313k–$2.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Women's | 4 | 18% |
| Health Care | 4 | 18% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 18% |
| Beauty | 3 | 14% |
| Finance | 3 | 14% |

44 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 11 | 50% |
| Pre-Seed | 8 | 36% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 55% |
| Pakistan | 2 | 9% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |
| Israel | 1 | 5% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Calanthia Mei | Investment Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/calanthia-mei |
| Hassan Bhatti | Investment Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hassan-bhatti |
| Jesse Middleton | Co-Founder & General Partner | 28 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jesse-middleton |
| Kara Weber | Investment Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kara-weber |
| Sonia Nagar | Investment Partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sonia-nagar |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Eli | Eli empowers women to understand their body and the transitions it goes through every day, and across life. We develop a device that uses saliva to capture hormone fluctuations at home, and an app that gives women the information they want to own their health decisions. | $3.6M | Seed | Apr 04, 2023 |  |
| Entrée | Entrée is meal delivery service offering restaurant-quality meals. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Mar 15, 2023 |  |
| TBD Health | TBD Health makes at-home STD/STI screening kits that are accurate, easy to use, and built for women. | $4.4M | Seed | Jan 31, 2023 |  |
| Snowball Wealth | Snowball Wealth gives personalized guidance for your student loans. We connect with your student debt accounts and give you a free personalized plan to pay off your loans and help you monitor your progress until you finish paying them off. Comparing refinancing, optimizing payments, and federal programs, Snowball ensures users make the bestdecision for their situation.Snowball Wealth is based in San Francisco, California. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Oct 18, 2022 |  |
| Snowball Wealth | Snowball Wealth gives personalized guidance for your student loans. We connect with your student debt accounts and give you a free personalized plan to pay off your loans and help you monitor your progress until you finish paying them off. Comparing refinancing, optimizing payments, and federal programs, Snowball ensures users make the bestdecision for their situation.Snowball Wealth is based in San Francisco, California. | $1.6M | Seed | Oct 18, 2022 |  |
| InSightec | InSightec is the pioneer and global leader in MR guided focused ultrasound technology for image guided acoustic surgery.ExAblate® 2000 system was the first system to use the MR guided focused ultrasound technology. The ExAblate system received CE mark in 2002 and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval in 2004 for the treatment ofsymptomatic uterine fibroids. ExAblate received the European CE Mark for pain palliation of bone metastases in June 2007 and for adenomyosis in June 2010. This device has won numerous innovation awards and has been used to treat thousands of patients around the world. | $100M | Debt Financing | Sep 01, 2022 |  |
| Farmdar | Farmdar empower farmers with actionable data to lower costs, increase yield, enhance quality, and reduce waste. | $1.3M | Seed | Jun 07, 2022 |  |
| Brandefy | Brandefy is a Developer of a personal care product reviewing platform designed to offer reviews and information about those products. The company's platform shows shoppers how store brand and name brand products stack up against each other utilizing honest, straightforward consumer feedback and it also offers its own reviews encompassingingredient analyses, it's own experiences with the product and chemical analyses when necessary, enabling customers to discover unknown information about the products before actually purchasing or using it. | $1.7M | Seed | Aug 16, 2021 |  |
| Sugar | Formerly known as Jetpack, Sugar builds community and transforms the residential experience by integrating with technology stacks that power modern buildings. Sugar's product is built in partnership with real estate investment groups and property management companies to build the most relevant features. The product works with a smart intercomdevice that allows residents to unlock both private and communal doors inside the Sugar app. Unlike other smart locks, Sugar doesn’t require any lock replacements.Their goal is to leverage technology and design thinking to deliver an amazing living experience to residents by making daily tasks and community engagement significantly easier. | $2.5M | Seed | Jul 12, 2021 |  |
| Copper Books | Copper is the place for authors and readers to build community around books. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Jun 30, 2021 |  |

10 of 22 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does The Community Fund invest in?

The Community Fund invests primarily in Women's, Health Care and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 22 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 The Community Fund's check size?

The Community Fund typically joins rounds of $1M–$4.4M at Seed and $313k–$2.5M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds The Community Fund participates in.

### How do I contact The Community Fund?

Public channels for The Community Fund include LinkedIn 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 The Community Fund?

The team at The Community Fund includes Calanthia Mei (Investment Partner), Hassan Bhatti (Investment Partner) and Jesse Middleton (Co-Founder & General Partner). 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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