Collaborative Fund

The secret to affordable, sustainable heating might literally be buried beneath your feet. Curious? Dan Yates, CEO of Dandelion Energy, shares how they do it.

Anthro has been named as the #3 Most Innovative Company for Energy in 2025 by Fast Company! I'm grateful for this recognition of the exciting work we are doing to redefine battery possibilities with our advanced electrolyte technology!

📢📢 Big news! We’re excited to announce a partnership with Genesis — a Technip Energies independent consulting arm — to conduct an engineering study that will accelerate the scale-up of our disruptive ammonia production technology! 📢📢 In 2024, we achieved a 250X scale-up of our proprietary reactor technology. Now, we’re setting our sights on another 1000X scale-up by the end of 2026 — bringing us closer to commercial deployment. But we can’t do it alone - world-class partners such as Genesis bring unique expertise to accelerate our path to market and widespread impact. Through our joint engineering study with Genesis, we optimized our ammonia production process and validated our substantial cost-advantage vs traditional Haber-Bosch across scales, taking a critical step in towards making sustainable, cost-effective clean ammonia a reality at scale. Our process operates at significantly lower pressures and temperatures than Haber-Bosch, reducing costs, boosting efficiency and cutting emissions. We look forward to continuing our non-exclusive partnership with Genesis. 👉 Read the full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/dnVSaDVa #SustainableInnovation #CleanAmmonia #Decarbonization #EnergyTransition #Ammobia #Genesis #FutureOfEnergy #ClimateSolutions #CERAWeek

📢📢 Big news! We’re excited to announce a partnership with Genesis — a Technip Energies independent consulting arm — to conduct an engineering study that will accelerate the scale-up of our disruptive ammonia production technology! 📢📢 In 2024, we achieved a 250X scale-up of our proprietary reactor technology. Now, we’re setting our sights on another 1000X scale-up by the end of 2026 — bringing us closer to commercial deployment. But we can’t do it alone - world-class partners such as Genesis bring unique expertise to accelerate our path to market and widespread impact. Through our joint engineering study with Genesis, we optimized our ammonia production process and validated our substantial cost-advantage vs traditional Haber-Bosch across scales, taking a critical step in towards making sustainable, cost-effective clean ammonia a reality at scale. Our process operates at significantly lower pressures and temperatures than Haber-Bosch, reducing costs, boosting efficiency and cutting emissions. We look forward to continuing our non-exclusive partnership with Genesis. 👉 Read the full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/dnVSaDVa #SustainableInnovation #CleanAmmonia #Decarbonization #EnergyTransition #Ammobia #Genesis #FutureOfEnergy #ClimateSolutions #CERAWeek

Collaborative Fund turns 15 this year. ⚡ We started with a simple idea: back founders who are making the world better in ways that don’t ask people to compromise. Fifteen years later, that idea still drives us. Not just because it sounds nice, but because it works. The best companies we’ve seen are the ones where doing good and doing well don't compete, they compound. And they’re led by founders who aren’t just building businesses but building something bigger: progress. Supporting those people has been a privilege. And we’re more motivated than ever to keep building alongside them. I'm forever grateful to all of my teammates, investors, partners, and advisors—past and present—who have been a part of this journey. Let's keep going!

Introducing Forethought Voice—our new, fully agentic AI that resolves customer calls from start to finish. No menus. No hold music. Just fully-autonomous, agentic AI. Powered by Forethought's proprietary Autoflows, Voice instantly understands, responds, and resolves customer inquiries in real time, freeing human agents to focus on more complex and valuable work. We're thrilled to help companies elevate customer experiences by turning traditional phone support into effortless conversations at scale. And we're proud to partner with Cartesia and Karan Goel. With this launch, Forethought has become the first complete agentic AI across all CX channels. Welcome to the future of customer experience—smarter, faster, and more human than ever. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gk2wjKPc #ForethoughtVoice #AgenticAI #CustomerExperience

“Explain it like I’m 4”. The secret to understanding isn’t intelligence; it’s curiosity. Deon Nicholas, Founder and CEO of Forethought, shares how learning from a first principles perspective helps him grasp technical subjects more easily.

Pet isn’t just recession-proof ... it’s venture-scale. Farmers Dog quietly crossed $1B in annualized revenue and hit profitability. Proud to see two Collaborative Fund Seed companies represented in this Pitchbook article: Farmer's Dog and Loyal. https://lnkd.in/ecus69zb

Financial Times just published an excellent piece by 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗸 about Bandit, one of Collaborative Fund’s portfolio companies. At first glance, Bandit might look like an apparel company—but it’s so much more. It’s building a powerful community and creating something fundamentally different. This is the kind of company that doesn’t just compete in a category—it rewrites the rules. Keep an eye on Bandit. They’re onto something big.

Are all ideas bad? Marc explains.