
Collaborative Fund
347 Bowery Fl 2, New York City, New York, 10003, United States
Overview
Collaborative Fund is an investment fund that provides funding to companies based on creativity and collaborative consumption. The fund centers around two macro themes which drives business innovation in the coming years: the growth of the creative class and the concept of collaborative consumption. Craig Shapiro founded it in New York in 2010.
- Total investments
- 243
- Lead investments
- 42
- Investments · 12mo
- 20
- Active investors
- 12
Sector focus
- Collaboration
- Finance
- Financial Services
Investment portfolio
- Osmo Studio
Participated · Seed · Aug 2026
Osmo Studio builds an end-to-end editable video platform that generates animation as editable code, with control over timeline, layers, vectors, motion, and brand rules. The product accepts inputs such as Figma files, pasted frontend code, or reference videos and produces animations that teams can edit programmatically. Osmo originated as a software and film studio and, in the seven months before launch, the team produced over 50 films and commercials for clients including Cognition, Parallel Web Systems, and Physical Intelligence. Early customers and teams at companies like Webflow, Resend, Rho, and Gumloop are already using the platform to ship work. The company publicly launched alongside its seed raise and disclosed a $5 million seed financing led by Bain Capital Ventures. The founders highlighted in the launch are Chris He, Oleksandr Shevenionov, Will Hoppin, and Basil Alfaro.
- Hippo Harvest
Participated · Series C · Jul 2026
Hippo Harvest operates robotic, machine learning-driven greenhouses that produce USDA-certified organic leafy greens, combining Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) with a closed-loop direct-to-root nutrient and watering system. The company launched Butter Lettuce to retail buyers in early 2026 and has commercialized indoor-grown Spinach alongside its greenhouse assortment, which it pairs with organic field-grown greens for variety and year-round supply. Hippo Harvest reports its system uses 92% less water, 55% less fertilizer and 94% less land compared to traditional agriculture. Current growing capacity is about one acre, and the company plans to expand via a permitted 30-acre Hollister, CA facility and a next-generation robotic growing system to increase throughput and lower unit costs. Hippo Harvest serves retail customers across Northern California and the Pacific Northwest, including Sprouts, Haggen and Gus's Community Markets, and is pursuing West Coast expansion and additional national retail partnerships. Founded in 2019 and based in Pescadero, CA, the company positions itself as a hybrid supplier combining greenhouse and field-grown organic greens.
- Fuse Energy
Participated · Series B · Jun 2026
Founded in 2022 by ex-Revolut executives Alan Chang and Charles Orr, Fuse Energy supplies energy to more than 300,000 UK households and is building a 1 GW generation pipeline. The company says it runs the full energy value chain in-house—generation, trading and retail—which it credits with delivering roughly 17% efficiency gains versus legacy providers. Fuse uses proprietary trading algorithms and a digital twin of each customer property to predict demand and optimise supply at the household level. Management reports the business has been EBITDA-positive every month since December 2025 and that ARR grew 32% in Q1 to over €472 billion ($550 million). Fuse is opening a 32,000 sq ft headquarters in Canary Wharf, plans to hire over 380 people in the next 12 months, and intends to expand into Europe and North America while launching a plug-in solar product for homes.
- Era
Participated · Seed · Apr 2026
Era builds a software orchestration layer that allows hardware makers to create AI agents and orchestrations for a variety of device form factors. The platform supports over 130 large language models from more than 14 providers to handle multimodal inputs and inference across devices like glasses, jewelry, and home speakers. Era was founded last year by CEO Liz Dorman, CTO Alex Ollman, and CPO Megan Gole. The company says its platform is designed to scale across millions of devices and to let users choose memory and model providers in a privacy-preserving way. Era does not manufacture devices itself but aims to enable third-party hardware makers and to work with the open-source and maker communities to showcase possible device experiences. Financially, the startup has raised $11 million to date across pre-seed and seed rounds.
- Plume
Participated · Equity · Apr 2026
Plume builds a platform that centralises more than 150 continuously updated geographical datasets and deploys AI agents that reason over thousands of unstructured documents to produce territorial site intelligence. Its system synthesises structured geospatial layers (grid capacity, protected areas, zoning, land parcels) and unstructured regulatory information (municipal deliberations, permit histories, environmental studies) to accelerate prospecting, permitting and grid connection. According to the company and its clients, Plume enables site analyses up to 20 times faster and three times more accurate versus traditional manual processes. Founded by Edouard Labarthe (ex-Palantir) and Marc Watine (ex-Harvard researcher) and incubated by Y Combinator, Plume is deployed in France, Spain, Romania and the Czech Republic and aims to expand to Italy and the U.S. in 2026. The company is using the new funding to expand the team, enter new markets and develop advanced AI features such as stakeholder mapping, competitive intelligence and automated permit application drafting.