The Community Fund

The Community Fund is a $5 million early-stage fund investing in community-driven companies through an investment partner team. The investment team consists of operators, founders, and investors that bring a wide range of complementary functional and industry expertise. The Community Fund is led by Lolita Taub and Jesse Middleton.

Weber, Kara Berklich

Investment Partner

12 past transactions

Farmdar

Seed Round in 2022
Farmdar is a mobile application that allows you to classify crops and track harvest progress. They provide fertilizer reports, plant health reports, water stress reports, plant stress reports, yield estimation, and real-time soil testing.

Brandefy

Seed Round in 2021
Brandefy is a Developer of a personal care product reviewing platform designed to offer reviews and information about those products. The company's platform shows shoppers how store brand and name brand products stack up against each other utilizing honest, straightforward consumer feedback and it also offers its own reviews encompassing ingredient analyses, it's own experiences with the product and chemical analyses when necessary, enabling customers to discover unknown information about the products before actually purchasing or using it.

Sugar

Seed Round in 2021
Formerly known as Jetpack, Sugar builds community and transforms the residential experience by integrating with technology stacks that power modern buildings. Sugar's product is built in partnership with real estate investment groups and property management companies to build the most relevant features. The product works with a smart intercom device that allows residents to unlock both private and communal doors inside the Sugar app. Unlike other smart locks, Sugar doesn’t require any lock replacements. Their goal is to leverage technology and design thinking to deliver an amazing living experience to residents by making daily tasks and community engagement significantly easier.

Elektra Health

Seed Round in 2021
Elektra Health is a next-gen healthcare platform for the tens of millions of women currently and soon to be navigating perimenopause & menopause. 80% of women report that menopause significantly disrupts their life – symptoms include anxiety, depression, loss of libido/painful sex, brain fog, joint pain & more – but 75% of those who seek help don’t receive appropriate care. Elektra was founded to solve this problem.

Kindra

Seed Round in 2021
Kindra is a leader in scientifically formulated, estrogen-free, and plant-powered menopause essentials. The brand is also a trusted go-to for reliable information and a supportive community. The vaginal lotion and naturally-derived supplements were created to address some of the most common effects of menopause including sleeplessness, hot flashes, brain fog, vaginal dryness, and more. By approaching menopause thoughtfully and holistically, inside and out, Kindra is an ideal partner on the menopause journey, which many women will experience for up to 40% of their lives.

Elphinstone

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Elphinstone serves as the community's investment robo-advisory platform. They provide investment services and products that are handled by companies that are likewise licensed asset management firms that have been registered and are subject to SECP regulation. They assist clients in purchasing community mutual funds with a track record of long-term success, run by some of the area's respected asset management firms.

Baraka

Pre Seed Round in 2021
baraka is an investment app, founded in the UAE. It empowers people to become confident investors by providing educational content, digestible market news and in-depth stock analysis. Access to thousands of stocks and ETFs creates the freedom to explore new opportunities. baraka’s mission: to give everyone access to the markets, and empower everyone to invest. It’s what they call: investing. empowered.

West Tenth

Seed Round in 2021
Discover local, home-based businesses in your community and beyond on the West Tenth app. West Tenth is an easy-to-navigate app that is helping women start or elevate their existing home-based business by connecting them to people in their own communities who can benefit from their talents. It’s a place to discover and work with local home bakers, family photographers, home organizers, baby sleep consultants, home florists, and much more.

Zette

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Zette’s mission is to bring down the barriers to real news by increasing access to journalism while empowering publishers and creators to continue producing high-quality work.

Handsome App

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Handsome App is the leading professional network for beauty professionals. Launched in 2018, Handsome App is based in Austin, Texas, United States.

Healthy Roots Dolls

Seed Round in 2021
Healthy Roots is a toy company that creates dolls and storybooks aimed to teach natural hair care to young girls of color. It aims to empower girls through education, diversity, and positive representation by utilizing a doll, book, and app to teach natural hair care to young girls. The dolls come in different skin tones, facial features, and hair textures to represent the diversity of the African diaspora. Its first Black doll, Zoe, was launched in 2019, which combines educational play experience with curly hair care. The doll's hair can be styled in a variety of ways with the guidance of the Big Book of Hair. The Big Book of Hair is an illustrated manual for natural hair care. Healthy Roots Dolls' app allows users to track their hair health and get curated content for their specific hair needs to be based on the data they input. Yelitsa Jean-Charles founded the Detroit, Michigan-based company in 2015.

Copper Books

Seed Round in 2020
Copper is a new platform created by authors and readers to change the way we interact with books. By assisting authors in reaching and deepening their relationships with readers, the firm is revolutionizing the current publishing industry.
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