Vid Micevic
Investor at Collaborative Fund
Washington, District of Columbia
Overview
Work Experience
Investor
2023 - Current
- Spearheading operations and strategic initiatives for the founding partner, leading to the successful fundraising of $125M for Fund VI. - Developing briefing materials and presentations for 100+ high-stakes meetings with LPs, board members, and key stakeholders. - Directing a cross-disciplinary team to create Collab Fund’s first impact report, establishing impact methodology and measurement practices. - Researched and implemented 10+ AI tools to improve team efficacy. - Revamped institutional voice and brand, implementing a video-forward media strategy resulting in 3x content engagement.
Collaborative Fund is an investment fund that provides funding to companies based on creativity and collaborative consumption.
Steering Committee & Co-Organizer
2024
Part of the founding team of DC Climate Week. Executing on multiple initiatives including sponsorships, programming, and marketing.
Founder
2022
- Built a thriving professional DC sustainability community with 1,350+ newsletter subscribers and 100+ attendees at monthly events. - Secured partnerships and sponsorships to increase financial solvency while managing tax, legal, and accounting operations. - Led a board of advisors and created strategic direction in quarterly meetings. - Implemented a leadership transition plan to ensure the organization’s long-term impact.
Venture Scout
2023 - 2023
Enduring Planet provides key financial instruments to diversify an entrepreneur's capital stack in climate tech. I help Enduring Planet ensure they are funding the right climate tech entrepreneurs that are in need of financing to scale. If you have $500k in revenue with solid MoM growth or recently secured a state/federal grant, don’t hesitate to reach out to me!
Enduring Planet is a fintech lender focused on the New Climate Economy.
Raised $5,000,000.00 from Dangerous Ventures.
Impact Partner
2022 - 2023
Contact me if you are interested in investing in climate solutions or seeking investments for your climate project or business.
Raise Green is a climate tech marketplace for local impact investing.
Raised $3,510,000.00 from Skyview Ventures, Connecticut Innovations and Techstars.
Principal
2022 - 2023
- First team member to join founding GP to operationalize the business through scalable workflows - Led a deal team of associates and analysts to source, diligence, and invest in pre-seed climate ventures aligned with M1C’s thesis. - Built financial models, including three-statement projections and waterfall returns analysis, to support investment decisions. - Re-modeled the fund’s impact metrics to ensure CO2e that can be measured consistently over portfolio lifetime.
Mission One Capital is a venture capital investment firm.
Venture Selection Manager
2021 - 2023
Managed end-to-end selection for Unreasonable Fellows from research, entrepreneur outreach, diligence, investment memo creation, selection committee management, and the onboarding process. Since joining Unreasonable over the 3 years, the Venture Selection Team has doubled Unreasonable's global portfolio to 376 ventures with a total of over $24B in capital raised/revenue generated. Furthermore, we've applied an inclusion lens to our work, so access to Unreasonable's resources is reserved for those that need it most. As a result, most of the entrepreneurs we've supported are considered underrepresented in their respective fields.
Venture Selection Associate
2020 - 2021
- Performing diligence calls daily assessing business, financial, and impact metrics that meet Unreasonable portfolio requirements and venture selection criteria. - Assessing >1,200 ClimateTech ventures annually from personal VC network, Unreasonable community, and more. - Managing and updating Unreasonable's venture information database with thousands of interconnected records. - Conducting in-depth sector analyses in CarbonTech, Circular Economy, Green Hydrogen, and Long-Duration Energy Storage to guide investment decision-making.
Unreasonable builds community between entrepreneurs, institutions, and investors to profitably solve pressing global problems.
CELI DC 2021 Fellow
2021 - 2021
Participated in a five-month fellowship program that equips emerging leaders with technical knowledge, leadership development training, and a passionate community dedicated to building an equitable, decarbonized, and resilient energy ecosystem
Clean Energy Leadership Institute is a non-profit dedicated to preparing young professionals for careers in clean energy.
Entrepreneur Support Manager
2020 - 2020
- Scaled SEED SPOT support systems from handling 800 entrepreneurs to supporting 3,000 entrepreneurs by launching several new products including the Alumni Resource Center, High Impact Venture Program, and Mentor Directory. - Scoped and managed 10+ new partnerships that offer discounts and further SEED SPOT entrepreneur support post-program which resulted in 92% of entrepreneurs using SEED SPOT services repeatedly. - Unlocked SEED SPOT entrepreneur peer-to-peer support through high-touch virtual communities including Slack, Linkedin, and Founder Scrums which steadily increased weekly engagement growth. - Built SEED SPOT's internal case management system to ensure all entrepreneur needs are prioritized and served efficiently.
Senior Entrepreneur and Support Analyst
2019 - 2020
- Supported over 300 entrepreneurs daily by assessing venture barriers and triaging support through SEED SPOT's alumni resources - Recruited and onboarded 360+ C-suite clients and investors where 60% of the National Mentor Network is from traditionally under-represented groups in the social entrepreneur space. -With more robust alumni relationships, yearly impact survey response rate increased from 20% to 40% which also doubled SEED SPOT’s impact metrics
Mentorship and Impact Analyst
2018 - 2019
- Managed post program entrepreneur experience by assessing alumni needs and pairing them up with right resources (including Mentor Program, goal setting sessions, pro bono legal law services, and more) - Recruited and trained 250+ mentors that pair up with SEED SPOT alumni for a goal oriented 8-week mentor program - Deployed more accurate impact metrics so SEED SPOT ventures can track their progress to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
SEED SPOT is an accelerator focused on supporting impact-driven entrepreneurs across the USA.
Raised $399,396.00 from US Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administation and Bush Foundation.
Co-founder, COO
2016 - 2018
33 Buckets is a clean water consulting firm where local governments contract 33 Buckets to set up sustainable water micro-franchise businesses for rural communities that lack access to clean water. With projects in Bangladesh, Peru, and the Dominican Republic, the COO ensures that the projects implemented are community owned and sustainably financed to support more jobs, improve community health, and create more lasting impact through local school partnerships.
33 Buckets is a nonprofit providing sustainable clean water access through local franchise development.
Raised $17,500.00 from eSeed Challenge and Frederick Pakis.