Discover how Collaborative Fund backs for-profit & for-good startups — from $200M growth bets to 100 micro-investments fueling the next wave of climate innovation.

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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