Cooperative Capital

Cooperative Capital is a U.S. early-stage venture capital firm with a distinctive community-cooperative fund structure, positioned as a ''venture capital fund in which the community acts as the investor.'' The firm was founded by Managing Partner Quincy Springs and focuses on early-stage start-ups founded by historically underrepresented entrepreneurs, particularly African-American / Black and minority founders in the Detroit, Michigan metropolitan area and broader Midwest region. Cooperative Capital's model is structured as a pooled community-member-LP vehicle enabling modest accredited-investor minimums (typically USD 1,000+) to provide collective capital for investment in local / regional minority-led start-ups, with a mission of economic-empowerment and wealth-creation impact alongside financial returns. The fund typically writes modest initial check sizes in the USD 25,000 to USD 250,000 range at pre-seed and seed stage. Detailed aggregate capital-deployed figures, current fund vintages, and comprehensive portfolio-company disclosures are partially documented publicly, consistent with the firm's community-fund boutique scale.