My guests in this episode are Sophie Bakalar and Tomás Álvarez Belón from Collaborative Fund.
Collaborative Fund is a 10-year-old VC firm investing at the intersection of for-profit and for-good, with a long-time focus on climate. Today, they’re investing in Series A- and B-stage startups from their $200M Collab SOS Fund. Through their Shared Future initiative, they're also investing $100,000 into 100 startups per year that come through top-notch accelerator programs like YCombinator, Activate, and AirMiners.
In this episode, we talked about the following:
- How they make investment decisions
- Lessons they’ve learned from past investment mistakes
- Tips for startup founders who are new at pitching to investors
- Two of their portfolio companies tackling cell cultured animal fat and smarter EV charging through software that recognizes the bottlenecks of the power grid
- The importance of distinguishing roles and responsibilities among founders
- Personal goals of ever greater simplicity in life
- Recommended sci-fi books to read
- The power of slow mornings
- And lots more
Hope you enjoy!
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