Sophie Bakalar

Sophie is a Partner at Collaborative, focused on venture investments from seed to growth and leading the firm’s later-stage investments.

Sophie joined Collaborative in 2016, initially focused on investing in consumer brands such as Daily Harvest and OLIPOP. Since then, she has led investments in consumer tech, energy, and AI companies including Phaidra AI and Anthro Energy. She’s been published and/or quoted in Fortune, TechCrunch, Financial Times, and the Economist. She is a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute.

Prior to joining Collaborative Fund, Sophie co-founded digit, a machine learning company specializing in software that digitized chart images. The company was acquired in 2016 by think Cell Software.

Prior to di8it, Sophie spent 10 years as a quant trader for III Capital Management, a $5+ billion fixed income hedge fund, and concurrently earned a B.S. in Mathematics and B.A. in Public Health from Tufts University.

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