Collaborative Fund

Walker's Heirloom Craft is buying up and scaling fine craft trade schools, starting with a leatherworking school in San Francisco founded by Hermes' first American artisan ambassador.

Walker is also running Collaborative Holdings, a fund carved out by the venture firm Collaborative Fund built to give founders more time to build their businesses.

On the surface, a game console and a leather craft school do not appear to have that much in common.

But both founders think there's money in fostering the kind of connection that technology has eroded over the last couple of decades.

Phone calling was one of our top requests, and your feedback helped make it happen." And yet, even if we have hit some sort of tipping point where the patterns in things like Muse and GrokBot and Instinct are actually getting consumer devotion for the first time, there are some who think that there are still a lot of developments to come.

Collab Fund's Sophie Bakalar wrote, "Using Muse/Instinct/Hermes, it is so clear this is the future of consumer tech.

It's also clear that the rails need to be completely reimagined.

Right now, agents are adapting to systems designed for humans.

I'm Vikas, your host, and this week, like every week, we're talking DC United.

A week in which the main character was Craig Shapiro, the founder and managing partner of venture capital firm Collaborative Fund, who reportedly is buying a stake in DC United and Audi Field.

The way this has been mentioned is a little bit strange.

And nobody really knows the details yet.

Oh, boy.

But when they talk about like why they are investing in DC United.

weirdly they talk a lot about putting the other brands that collaborative fund invest in or owns or whatever into the stadium.

So brands like Olipop, which is, you know, this periodic soda or whatever whoop, which I don't actually know what it is, but they talk about, Oh, we'll have activations for our brands in the stadium.

So if you caught the news this week, there's been a couple, there's, it's very rare when you find DC United on TechCrunch, a blog that I read for non-soccer reasons.

But DC United apparently has sold or is attempting to sell a stake and theoretically a sizable stake of the club and the Audi and the stadium to a group, a private equity fund called Collaborative Fund.

Now, if you are familiar with private equity, they don't necessarily have a sterling reputation across the board.

They typically take your favorite things, try to find efficiencies, extract any value from those things, and then leave them as husks of whatever they were before.

And mental health chatbot Yana has roughly ten million users, around three-quarters young women.

Collab Fund twenty twenty-four, Pulso Capital twenty twenty-five, Mexico Business News twenty twenty-five.

So what? Mexico is likely to produce at least one breakout FemTech for emerging markets by twenty twenty-six.

But go-to-market will depend more on pharmacies, WhatsApp-centric UX, cash options, and public system pilots than on App Store positioning.

Patients access specialized biomarker testing, certified clinicians, and prescription-grade therapies, including targeted binders and compounded treatments, all delivered through a virtual platform at a fraction of conventional out-of-pocket costs.

MoldCo has raised $11 million to date, including an $8 million seed round, co-led by Cantos and Collaborative Fund.

The company is targeting full nationwide coverage and is investing in clinical research collaborations to advance the standard of care for a condition that still lacks an ICD-10 diagnostic code.

Prior to Moldco, Ariana held operating roles spanning Fortune 500 companies, formation stage, startups, and academic spinouts.