Craig Wilson
Founder of The Crop Project
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Venture Partner
2024 - Current
Collaborative Fund backs entrepreneurs pushing the world forward
Collaborative Fund is an investment fund that provides funding to companies based on creativity and collaborative consumption.
Prize Advisor
2025
The David Prize is a celebration of New Yorkers with ideas for extraordinary change. 5 New Yorkers. $200,000 each. No strings attached
Visiting Professor
2022 - 2025
Teach J-Term Class on Climate & Technology
Executive Director of Innovation & Entrepreneurship
2024 - 2024
Institute for Invention, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (IIIE), Urban Future Lab, Data Future Lab, Veterans Future Lab, NYC Media Lab, FLAX Venture Studio
Adjunct Professor
2020 - 2024
Department of Technology Management & Innovation
Manging Director of NYU Tandon Future Labs
2014 - 2023
The Future Labs are a public-private-academic partnership with New York City and State leveraging the economic engine of NYC and the resources of a world class engineering university Cofounder of Veterans Future Lab
Co-Founder & Advisor
2019 - 2024
The Crop Project is an agricultural processing and wholesale ingredient company devoted to bringing regenerative crops to the marketplace
The Crop Project is an agricultural processing and wholesale company that sells Atlantic kelp.
Venture Partner
2021 - 2022
Allegory is flexible capital that invests in digital climate innovation *Transitioned away to go on paternity leave
Allegory Labs is an investment company that invests and builds at the intersection of web3 and climate.
Founding CEO
2021 - 2022
The Climate Collective is an innovation network that supports companies building for maximum climate impact *Transitioned away to go on paternity leave
Associate
2013 - 2014
Founder Collective aims to build the most aligned VC fund for Founders at the seed stage
Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital fund that helps entrepreneurs build their businesses.
Investor
2012 - 2013
Collaborative Fund backs entrepreneurs pushing the world forward
Collaborative Fund is an investment fund that provides funding to companies based on creativity and collaborative consumption.
Founding Associate
2009 - 2012
Locus Analytics (now Syntax Data) is a software and asset-management company that has the most comprehensive, transparent, and accessible financial data in the world