Many early-stage firms fail to translate early performance into institutional scale. The data doesn’t hold, LP conviction drops, and the firm stops raising.
Collide Capital has moved through that transition.
The Brooklyn-based firm closed a $95 million Fund II, oversubscribed, bringing total AUM to $170 million. The firm produced top-quartile TVPI across Fund Zero and Fund I. That is what made institutional capital at this level possible.
Fund II LPs include Insight Partners, General Catalyst, Bain Capital, Citi, Amazon, Alphabet, and Bank of America.
Collide invests across fintech, supply chain, and the future of work, writing $1 million to $3 million checks from pre-seed through Series A. Co-founders Brian Hollins and Aaron Samuels each spent over a decade operating inside those sectors before deploying capital into them.
The firm’s core argument is access. Portfolio companies get direct entry into procurement and revenue teams at Fortune 500 companies, compute credits from Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Anthropic, and financing introductions through institutional lenders.
For an early-stage company trying to close its first enterprise contract, that infrastructure compresses the timeline from product to revenue. More than 80 percent of the portfolio is led by Black, Latine, or female founders.
Fund II has already deployed into Art Lab, Jelou, Ocho, Prefix, and Sytrex. The broader portfolio includes more than 75 companies with five exits.
The campus program across Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, and peer institutions functions as a consistent sourcing channel. More than 50 participants to date, feeding directly into deal flow and hiring.
Seventy-five companies in. Verified performance across multiple funds. Institutional capital secured.
The proof-of-concept phase is over.
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