Hello! For those new to The Community Fund, TCF is a $5M institutionally-backed seed-stage venture fund focused on investing in community-driven founders through our own community of operator-investor partners (there are 13 of us!). We’re on a mission to produce outsized returns. And, while we’re at it, we’re changing the narrative of who VCs are, who we invest in, and how companies become unicorns (the TCF fam pic for proof 😉)
Read more about our community-driven thesis here.
On that note, TCF is nearing the end of year 1, we’ve reviewed thousands upon thousands of early-stage community-driven startups (thanks to…
Enabling social capital access for underestimated founders and fund managers
A year ago, Josh and I launched the Startup-Investor Matching Tool with the goal to help address the startup-investor social capital gap, get underestimated and underrepresented founders connected with investors, and watch them get funded. Happy to report that we’ve seen success (more on this below), and so now (right this moment), we’re launching the GP-LP Matching Tool to get underestimated and underrepresented fund managers intros to LPs (more below)!
Underestimated founders: founders who can build unicorns but are looked over because they don’t fit the stereotypical Silicon Valley mold
Startup-Investor Matching Tool Success
We measure success by the intros we make between underestimated…
This week, The Community Fund’s LP, Flybridge Capital, released The Community Playbook, a guide to help founders set up their communities and leverage community as their differentiation moat. It’s an awesome playbook (Jesse and I edited it 😉). You can check it out here.
To complement the playbook, in this The Community Playbook Cheat Sheet post, I share a short Q&A + a check-list + my notes to get you started on building your company’s community.
Q&A
Before you launch a community you need to answer a few questions.
- Why — Why do you want to build a community? Do…
How venture capital funds source deals, select and support startups is still opaque in the industry and we want to change that at The Community Fund (TCF). We believe that to build community we need to be transparent in our processes and build in public because we want to keep real, stay accountable, and bring you on our journey. So, in this post, we’re pulling back the curtain for you to peek into who we are and sharing our approach to sourcing, selecting, and supporting startups.
What is TCF?
The Community Fund is a $5 million early-stage fund that invests in community-driven…
Hi all! My name is Lolita Taub. I’m Co-Founder and General Partner at The Community Fund (TCF) where our mission is to leverage the power of our incredible operator-investment team to invest in community-driven future unicorns. We believe that companies with community at the core will become unicorns and produce outsized returns.
What’s a community-driven company?
At TCF, our partners all have various takes on what community-driven companies are. It’s part of what makes this model so special. But we all coalesce around a few key points including…
- customers identify as members
- members are able to create value for other members
- members start…
We’re thrilled to announce The Community Fund investment team.
After +450 applicants went through our selection process, we accepted just 2% of the talented and community-centric applicants as partners on our new team. Our 11 partners will work closely with Jesse and me to change how the world thinks about who builds the most successful companies and who funds them.
Our partners include Elias Torres, Cheryl Campos, Calanthia Mei, Melissa Moore, Hassan Bhatti, Sonia Nagar, Aaron Samuels, Kara Weber, Mike Swift, Songe LaRon, and Dave Salvant. They are leaders in communities that span across and within North America. They are…
Hi there! You’ve likely landed on this page because you heard that, along with my co-founder Jesse Middleton, I launched a venture capital fund called The Community Fund. You’re likely wondering “what is this fund about and who is Lolita Taub?” Well, the short of it is that through the fund, we’ll invest in community-driven companies destined to become unicorns through an investment team, taking a page from XFactor’s playbook.
As for me, I’m an unlikely VC fund manager. Yes, I have fourteen years of experience as an operator and investor in tech corporations, startups, and VC that equate to…
Fundraising is hard. Full stop. What can make it even harder is not knowing the capital options your business is best suited for and chasing after money that may not be in your best interest.
Why can this cause hardship? Because choosing the wrong type of fundraising strategy is likely to cause emotional and time depletion, in addition to a failed fundraise. So to increase your chances in fundraising successfully, you’ve got to pick the right fundraising strategy for you and your company.
Below I share 5 steps on how to select the best fundraising strategy for you and your…
Latinx founder numbers are growing at a faster rate than any other group and we’re expected to yield $1.4 Trillion in US GDP.
A couple of years ago, I started my journey in supporting Latinx founders as an investor at Backstage Capital through the Accelerator and with this post. And I believe what I wrote then even more now!
TL;DR Latinx entrepreneurs are a strong force to be reckoned with! With capital and support, we can grow our businesses to produce in the trillions — trillions that can better the lives of our families, ourselves, and the world.
Now: I want to invest and support more Latinx founders because I want to support my community and there’s money to be made.
Guide: My mami always taught me to be resourceful to those I want to help and work with…
To efficiently give founders access to investors and capital, Josh Taub and I created a free startup-investor matching tool. Learn more about the backstory, the tool itself, and feel free to submit your co!
Startup-Investor Matching Tool Backstory
A couple of months ago, pre-COVID, I was given the opportunity to take on two operator titles, Chief of Staff and a Sales Head role at Catalyte. I said, “yes!” and ran with it! It’s super fun but my workload has definitely increased. Well, a few weeks ago I accepted that and the fact that in order for me to provide quality work in both my…
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