Collaborative Fund
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Sawyer, a software platform for kid classes, raises $6 million, including from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Sawyer, a two-year-old startup that aims to become the OpenTable of children’s activities, has raised $6 million in new funding led by Advance Venture Partners. Others that contributed to the round include Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, 3311 Ventures, Female Founders Fund and earlier backer Collaborative Fund, as well as unnamed investors from the company’s $1.5 million seed round. Read More
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Outschool goes to Sesame Street and picks up $1.4 million for its K-12 online learning marketplace
Now kids can potentially take a class to find out how to get to Sesame Street, thanks to a fresh $1.4 million in new funding for Outschool and its online learning marketplace from Sesame Street’s venture partnership with Collaborative Fund. Read More
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Long Game raises $6.6 million for a savings account that doubles as a lottery ticket
Long Game is a bank account, with a twist. Every dollar saved can go toward winning a lottery. The personal finance app allows users to play games and win cash prizes. It may sound like a gimmick, but these are FDIC-insured accounts backed by Blue Ridge Bank in Virginia. And now Thrive Capital and Collaborative Fund are betting $6.6 million that Long Game will provide a windfall. Read More
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Sesame Street’s VC fund makes its first investment in tutoring app Yup
A venture fund formed by Sesame Workshop and New York-based Collaborative Fund early this year has made its first investment in a tutoring platform called Yup. Specifically, Yup (formerly known as MathCrunch) has raised $4 million in a seed extension round led by Collab+Sesame, in which Sesame Ventures is a limited partner, bringing the company’s total capital raised to date to… Read More
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Line, the newly public messaging app, has funded at least 9 U.S. startups
Line, the popular Japanese messaging service that went public last week on both the NYSE and in Japan, partnered on a fund a couple of years ago with the New York-based venture firm Collaborative Fund in order to gain more of a foothold in the U.S. According to a Dealbook story that announced the pairing, the fund planned to invest less than $10 million and to focus on very early-stage startups. Read More
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Yep, Sesame Street Now Has A Venture Fund
Collaborative Fund is bringing on a pretty big partner for a new seed-stage fund focused on improving children’s lives — and it’s not someone you’d expect to get into the venture capital game. Craig Shapiro’s venture is launching a new $10 million fund that’s tied to Sesame Workshop, creator of Sesame Street and other children’s programming. The fund… Read More
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CircleUp Raises $30M For Its Consumer Brand Crowdfunding Platform
CircleUp, an AngelList-style crowdfunding platform that consumer retail businesses like food companies use to raise money from outside investors, is announcing some funding of its own today. The company has raised a Series C round of $30 million — growth money it intends to use to build out its platform and product teams. Specifically, the company is working on new tech to make… Read More
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Collaborative Fund Raises $70 Million For Its Third Fund
When Craig Shapiro and his team at Collaborative Fund are making investments, they don’t exactly ignore the devil on their shoulders. They look for companies that fall somewhere in the nexus between companies that will address the broader interests of the world around them — but also generate a return on their investment, Shapiro says. Read More
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FeeX, Which IDs Hidden Fees In Financial Products, Scores $2.75M In Fresh Funding
FeeX, a free service that sniffs out hidden fees in retirement and savings accounts, announced that it has raised $2.75 million in new funding. The round was led by Collaborative Fund. Read More
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Backed By $3.5 Million, SnowShoe Debuts Clever, Plastic “Stamps” That Unlock Content On Mobile Phones
Imagine being able to touch a toy figurine to your phone’s screen in order to see the character transported into your video game, or touching another small piece of plastic to the phone in order to unlock exclusive content, like a new video or iTunes download. A startup called SnowShoe has developed technology that does just this – it has created clever, plastic… Read More
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Collaborative Fund Raises $33 Million Second Fund, Adds Nexon Founder Jay Kim As Venture Partner
It’s been three years since Collaborative Fund was founded to invest in startups in the collaborative consumption and adjacent fields. Today it’s announcing that it’s raised $33 million for its Fund 2 and adding Nexon founder Jungju (Jay) Kim as a venture partner. Read More
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P2P Learning Startup Skillshare Gets $550,000 From Founder Collective and SV Angel
Peer-to-peer education startup Skillshare, which just launched in April, raised a $550,000 angel round, according to an SEC filing. Investors in the New York City startup include Founder Collective, SV Angel, Collaborative Fund, David Tisch, and Scott Heiferman. Skillshare is a community where people can offer classes to other members. People sign up online, and meet in person for real… Read More
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Groundcrew Offers a Platform to Help You Mobilize Your Team of Do-Gooders
Last week, we covered the launch of the Collaborative Fund, angel investor Craig Shapiro’s new seed fund aimed at supporting for-profit startups with a social mission. Specifically, Collaborative Fund is investing in companies that apply emerging technologies to peer-to-peer collaboration—like sharing, bartering, trading, and organizing—in order to benefit the greater good. Read More
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Collaborative Fund Aims To Seed Startups That Compete On Values And Crowdsourcing
Angel investor and entrepreneur Craig Shapiro is starting a new seed fund based in Los Angeles with the help of friends and advisors like YouTube founder Chad Hurley and Kiva co-founder and Profounder CEO Jessica Jackley. Investors in the relatively small $6 million fund include GM O’Connell, Nicholas Negroponte, Jason Krikorian (co-founder of Sling Media), Ben Goldhirsh (founder of… Read More
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