Craig Shapiro ⚽️
@cshapiro
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Founder and managing partner @collabfund. Investor @airesidency.
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Joined April 2008
The polls this century and rhetoric this year around congressional redistricting tell us something fundamental, writes @PatMcCroryNC: Trust in the election process rises and falls depending on who wins. "That’s not sustainable in a constitutional republic."
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🚨🗣️ Leo Messi on records: "I don't think I need to make a key pass, to score a goal to reach the record, to surpass this, to surpass that player." "Today, people focus too much on statistics and records, and personally, I don't like statistics very much. I live the game and
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Frank Ocean was the 7th most streamed artist on this year’s #SpotifyWrapped despite not releasing an album since 2016.
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We need the equivalent of the 20th-century clean water revolution, except for clean indoor air. People with post-infectious chronic illnesses have known for a while how insane it is that, as a society, we continue to find it perfectly acceptable to breathe air full of viruses
Researchers are uncovering the mysteries of why early-in-life acute infections can lead to neurodegenerative diseases in later years.
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I asked Gemini 3 to make an interactive web page summarizing 10 breakthroughs in genetics over the past 15 years. Result: https://t.co/b9LmllwDVz Pretty cool IMO.
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Exciting expansion! @Waymo now serves the whole SF Bay Area Peninsula from SF to San Jose and is taking riders on freeways. https://t.co/fNgqQtHB7b
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Thanks @RashiShrivast18 for telling the @speak story! We’re pushing hard to make the world’s best AI language tutor available to everyone. Super excited for the slate of new feature launches coming later this year! Stay tuned. https://t.co/uX64S0E7JJ
forbes.com
Founded by former Thiel fellows, AI language tutoring app Speak started its journey in Seoul, South Korea. But as it enters the U.S. market, it’ll have to compete with popular apps like Duolingo.
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We're launching usage-based pricing today. Your most valuable data is trapped in formats you can't use—PDFs, images, documents, audio, etc. The future involves turning any unstructured input into structured data in <60 seconds with infrastructure that powers internal and
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episode 4 of the rise is live. featuring Craig Shapiro (@cshapiro), founder & managing partner of Collaborative Fund (@collabfund), a leading source of capital for entrepreneurs pushing the world forward. based in nyc and managing over $1b, collab has backed category-defining
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new crisp apple yeti packaging is giving me life on this fall monday!!!
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Demis Hassabis, co-founder of Deepmind, on Veo3 learning physics by watching YouTube videos: “If you look at something like Veo, our video generation model, it can model liquids quite well… materials, specular lighting…these systems are reverse‑engineering from just watching
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In the 1990s, people carried their detachable car stereos everywhere — the ultimate anti-theft flex of the era.
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ICAP seeks to maximize income and pursue total return opportunities
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Longer walks linked with less mortality and cardiovascular risk compared with short bouts of physical activity @AnnalsofIM @uk_biobank
https://t.co/DBOFdlm31P
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New Edition, Boyz II Men and Toni Braxton announce they’re going on tour in 2026:
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Prince performing "Purple Rain" in Syracuse (1985) This is by far one of Prince's greatest performances. There will never be another. This man was a genius.
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Fuser launches today. Backed by a $2M pre-seed led by @Collab_Currency, we’re carving a new path for how creatives interface with AI. Sometimes it feels like how we use AI — where it lives, what it’s for — has already been decided for us. But that isn’t true. In fact, it’s
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Yeah, you can transform into animals to see the world through their eyes. But, more realistically, to cause mischief and avoid responsibilities. The game knows what it's doing. Out now on Steam 👇
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We’re announcing a research collaboration with @CFS_energy, one of the world’s leading nuclear fusion companies. Together, we’re helping speed up the development of clean, safe, limitless fusion power with AI. ⚛️
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Exciting day! Applications for AI Residency Cohort 2 are officially open. We’re back small teams building AI that feels human, useful, and new. Deadline is Nov 16 → https://t.co/f7IzC0ErdR 
air.collabfund.com
AIR, a NYC-based, consumer AI startup accelerator
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