Venture capital firm Collab Capital has closed a $75 million Fund II, with backing from Apple, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and The Leon Levine Foundation. The fund will focus on Seed and Series A investments, supporting founders who, as Collab puts it, are “best equipped to solve real-world, consequential problems through unique market expertise and lived experience.” Using Fund II to sharpen its investment model Collab Capital was founded by Barry Givens, Justin Dawkins, and Jewel Burks Solomon, who gained Silicon Valley prominence as the first head of Google for
Tech startup ImIn has further closed $1 million in seed funding to expand its employee scheduling app. Black-led venture capital firm Collab Capital led the funding round. ImIn, founded by Chime Solutions exec Lauren Wilson, is a staffing software platform aimed at helping the call center industry. After seven years of working at her father’s high-volume call center business, Wilson came up with the idea to launch her app after identifying the missed opportunities both companies faced because of a familiar yet widely accepted industry challenge: absenteeism. According to a 2017 US Department
