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An Annual Showcase of Impact Investment Fund Managers

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ImpactAssets 50: A Global Landscape of Impact Investment Fund Managers
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ImpactAssets 50

An Annual Showcase of Impact Investment Fund Managers

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Collab Capital

Total Assets Under Management: $100 – 499M
Asset Class: Private Equity
Primary UN Sustainable Development Goal: 3 – Good Health & Well-Being
Financial and Economic Inclusion
Health and Wellbeing
Racial Equity and Justice

Firm Overview

Category: Venture Capital - Early Stage (Pre-seed/seed, Accelerator, Angel) - Developed Markets

Collab was founded in 2019 and is co-managed by Jewel Burks Solomon and Barry Givens. Since its formation Collab has invested in 38 companies. The firm has a focused investment approach, targeting companies led by at least one Black founder with controlling interest. This is important, because the fund was founded with a goal to disrupt the racial wealth gap by growing Black ownership in high-growth companies, that would go on to create high paying jobs and underlying solutions that close access gaps across the main determinants of wealth - work, health, and infrastructure (ie. software to support transportation, digital access, housing, etc). Collab targets market-making and/or category defining solutions that have the potential to improve the lives of millions of people at scale.

Firm Headquarters: United States
Years of Operation: 3 – 4 years
Total Assets Under Management:
$100 – 499M
Total Number of Investors: More than 25
% of Capital from Top 3 Investors: Less than 25%
Investment Thesis:

Collab Capital invests in the building blocks of shared prosperity. 

Investment Overview:

At Collab, we invest in market making solutions to the world's most pressing problems across healthcare access, economic mobility and community infrastructure. We invest at the seed stage, $1-2M with a target ownership of 10%. 

Company Differentiator:

Our backgrounds as successful founders with exits turned corporate leaders and ecosystem builders, means we've navigated a lot of what our founders have experienced which is unlike many of our peers. Additionally, our focus on helping companies reach sustainability and build the right capital stack (instead of chasing the next round of VC) sets us apart from our peers. 

Investment Example

Goodr - Goodr is on a mission to combat hunger and reduce food waste. At Goodr, they've been dedicated to feeding families and seniors through impact data solutions and partnerships nationwide. Goodr is on track to hit $11M in revenue in 2024. 

Leadership and Team

Cumulative Leadership Experience in Impact Investing:
10 – 19 years
Cumulative Impact Experience of Top Three Firm Leaders:
10 – 19 years
Jewel Burks Solomon – Managing Partner More Info

Jewel Burks Solomon is an advocate for representation in and access to the technology industry. As co-founder of Partpic, a startup designed to streamline the purchase of maintenance and repair parts using computer vision, Jewel and her team built groundbreaking technology poised to change the way people everywhere locate products. Partpic raised over $2 million in seed funding and integrated its software into mobile apps/websites of large parts distributors and retailers. Jewel successfully negotiated the deal to sell Partpic to Amazon in late 2016, where she led the integration of Partpic’s technology into the Amazon Mobile App and launched it to the 150M+ Amazon Mobile Shopping App users as PartFinder in 2018.
Barry Givens – Managing Partner More Info

Barry Givens is a dynamic entrepreneur and technology innovator, widely recognized for his work to bring parity to the innovation economy. He was the founder and CEO of Monsieur, an innovative company that developed one of the first robotic bartending systems, a groundbreaking invention that blended advanced technology with the art of mixology. Barry raised over $4M while building an impressive roster of customers including sports arenas, hotels, and movie theaters before licensing his technology to Napa Technology in 2017.

Financial Performance

Target Financial Returns Relative to Benchmark:
Above Market Rates
Actual Performance of Impact Products/Funds Relative to Target Financial Returns in the Past Three Years:
In line with initial target returns
Financial Reporting Frequency to Investors or Donors
Quarterly

Impact Performance

Percentage of Total Assets Under
Management that are Impact Investments:
100%
Primary Impact Outcomes:
Increasing access to healthcare services and improving health
Secondary Impact Outcomes:
Addressing climate change and environmental issues
Alleviating poverty
Increasing access to workforce development services, job skilling and retraining
Creating jobs
Increasing access to education and improving educational outcomes
Increasing access to financial services
Increasing access to water and sanitation
Promoting arts and media
Providing housing
Addressing racial inequities
Addressing gender inequities
Value-added Services Offered:
Access to markets
Business and legal training
Financial literacy training
Technology training
Health services
Education services
Human Resources, recruiting and professional development services

Investments systematically target companies where social and/or environmental impact is integral to the product/service being created:

We invest in founders who are building solutions to increase shared prosperity and doing so with teams that are properly incentivized with equity. We believe Black founders are uniquely positioned and equipped to solve our most pressing problems with the right level of support and investment, so we focus on investing in them. 100% of our Fund II investments will be in companies solving problems across economic mobility, healthcare access and community infrastructure. 

Impact Tracking and Monitoring

Impact is Tracked:
Yes
Impact Verified by an Independent Third-Party:
No
Social and/or Environmental Impact is Reported to Investors and Donors:
Yes – to investors and donors
Third Party Validations:
GIIRS-rated fund
B-Corp certified firm
Participant in Global Reporting Initiative
Signatory of the United Principles for Responsible Investing
Member of Impact Capital Managers
Impact Frontiers Cohort Participant
Implement recommendations from Task Force on Climate Related-Financial Disclosure
Net Zero Assets Managers Initiative
Utilizes standardized impact metrics (e.g. IRIS+, GIIRS, etc.)
Listed on ImpactBase
Participant on steering committees or leadership roles within impact industry associations
Publisher or contributor to industry white paper or other research in impact investing
Participant in the Impact Management Project
Signatory of the Operating Principles for Impact Management
None

Learn More

Key Contact Name: Jewel Burks Solomon
Phone: 615-491-0381
Website: https://collab.capital/
Mailing Address:

310 Peters Street, Atlanta, GA 30313 USA

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