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Websitefoundercollective...
Twitter@fcollective
Emailcontact@founderco...
Employees7
Founded5/09
DescriptionSeed Stage Fund

Funds

Total$110M
Unknown, 11/09 $40M
Founder Collective II, 9/12 $70M

Offices

New York Office
500 7th Ave
17th Fl.
New York, NY, 10018
USA
Cambridge Office
1 Mifflin Place
Cambridge, MA, 02138
USA

People

Founder Partner
Co-founder, Partner
Founder Partner
Founder Partner
Founder Partner
Managing Partner
Managing Partner
LP Advisory Board Member

Tags

Founder Collective

Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital fund, built by a collection of successful entrepreneurs. They are headquartered in New York City and Cambridge, but make investments all over the world.

Recent Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
JoyTunes 5/13Seed$1.5M6
Riskified 4/13Seed$1.65M6
CompStak 3/13Series A$4.45M9
Centzy 3/13Series A$1.6M4
Omada Health 3/13Series A$4.7M5
Getable 2/13Seed$1.8M4
Kitchensurfing 2/13Seed$1M11
Blue Box 1/13Series A$4.3M2
Picturelife 11/12Series A$4M10
Gigwalk 10/12Series A$6M6
Oyster 10/12Venture Round$3M5
SeatGeek 8/12Venture Round$1.65M5
DeckDAQ 8/12Debt4
GiveForward 7/12Series A$2M4
ThriveHive 7/12Seed$1.5M4
Gradient X 6/12Seed$3.75M8
Meddik 5/12Seed$750k5
Couple 5/12Seed$4.2M12
Boundless 4/12Series A$8M5
Dragonplay 4/12Series A$14M3
Boundless 4/12Seed$1.7M4
EmployInsight 2/12Venture Round$1M5
See.Me 2/12Seed$1.5M7
Pinwheel 2/12Series A$7.5M6
2bkco 2/12Series A$2M6
Paddle8 2/12Series A$4M1
Ridejoy 1/12Seed$1.3M7
Hackruiter 1/12Venture Round$200k2
Custora 1/12Seed8
Infinio 1/12Seed$2M3
IFTTT 1/12Seed$1.5M14
JoyTunes 1/12Angel$500k4
Tutorspree 12/11Venture Round$1M6
Harvest Automation 11/11Series B$7.8M4
CustomMade 11/11Series A$2.1M8
HALL.com 10/11Seed$580k2
Top10 9/11Series A$3.5M4
AI Exchange 9/11Venture Round$1.5M4
Sift Science 9/11Seed$1.6M10
Moat 8/11Angel$1.5M8
Pocket 7/11Series A$2.5M4
Contently 7/11Debt$335k2
Lore 6/11Seed$1M8
ToutApp 5/11Seed$350k8
Gobble 5/11Venture Round$1.2M14
Gigwalk 5/11Seed$1.7M6
COLOURlovers 5/11Venture Round$1M8
Skillshare 5/11Angel$550k9
Extension Entertainment 4/11Seed$750k5
Listia 4/11Venture Round$1.75M8
Zencoder 4/11Series A$2M14
Chirply 4/11Seed$1.1M18
A Bit Lucky 3/11Venture Round$5M5
BoostCTR 3/11Seed$1.64M6
BackType 3/11Seed$1M8
Breezy 3/11Angel$750k8
Uber 2/11Venture Round$11M6
StepOut 2/11Series A$3M8
SHIFT 2/11Series A$2M11
MileWise 1/11Seed$1.5M17
Pose.com 1/11Venture Round$1.6M3
GroupMe 1/11Series B$10.6M7
Sulia 12/10Venture Round$3.5M5
Artsy 11/10Angel$1.25M15
Svpply 11/10Seed$550k5
Shareable Ink 11/10Series A$4.5M3
BaubleBar 11/10Seed$1.1M6
FanBridge 11/10Series A$2M8
Uber 10/10Angel$1.25M15
SeatGeek 10/10Series A$550k6
ADstruc 9/10Seed$1.1M8
Harvest Automation 9/10Series A$1.3M1
Votizen 9/10Venture Round$1.5M13
HowAboutWe 9/10Series A$3.1M7
Pantheon 9/10Seed$1.3M7
Chartbeat 9/10Seed$3M12
Cue 8/10Seed$700k9
SavingStar 8/10Series A$2.3M7
20x200 8/10Series A$2M8
SeatGeek 7/10Series A$1M2
Ze Frank Games 7/10Seed$500k11
thredUP 7/10Venture Round$1.4M3
Integral Ad Science 7/10Series B$7.25M3
Heyzap 6/10Series A$3M3
Open Places 6/10Seed$1.1M7
Tello 6/10Seed$1M12
Metamarkets 6/10Seed$2.5M13
Giiv 6/10Series A$3.35M4
BillGuard 5/10Series A$3M6
Blockboard 5/10Seed$1M8
Fluidinfo 5/10Series A$800k12
Extension Entertainment 5/10Seed$500k4
Canvas Networks 5/10Seed$625k5
BuzzFeed 5/10Series B$8M8
Venmo 5/10Seed$1.2M8
ReadyForce 3/10Series A$12.2M6
The Trade Desk 3/10Seed$2.5M5
A Bit Lucky 3/10Debt$2.6M6
betaworks 3/10Series B$20M13
Posterous 3/10Series A$4.4M8
Vook 2/10Seed$2.5M7
Factual 2/10Seed$1M14
Datalot 1/10Series A2
Cardpool 1/10Seed17
Hot Potato 11/09Series A$1.42M16
Milo 11/09Series A$4M17
20x200 10/09Series A$800k9
DealBase Corporation 5/09Seed$1M3
Convertro 1/09Series A3
Vaultive 1/09Angel$1M3
OLO 1/08Series A$7M3

Videos

Sources

  1. Mass High Tech (masshightech.com) [edit]
  2. Founder Collective Raises $70 Million For New Fund (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. JoyTunes Raises $1.5M in Seed Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  4. Citation Needed [add]
  5. CompStak Raises $4.45M in Series A Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
  6. Centzy Raises $1.6M Seed Round From Cowboy Ventures, Founder Collective, Lightbank & Others To Bring Offline Biz Data To Web & Mobile (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  7. Omada Health Secures $4.7M From USVP, NEA, Kapor & More To Roll Out Its Online Diabetes Prevention Program (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  8. With $1.8M From Andreessen, Chris Sacca & More, Rental Marketplace Getable Digs Into The $32B Construction Market (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  9. Private chef service Kitchensurfing grabs $1 million, expands beyond New York (pandodaily.com) [edit]
  10. Blue Box Closes $4.3M Series A funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  11. OMGPOP Founder Charles Forman Raises $4M For Picturelife, An App For Backing Up Your Photos In The Cloud (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  12. Paid Task App Gigwalk Raises $6M From August Capital, Greylock; Expands Deal With Microsoft (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  13. Oyster raises $3 million from Founders Fund for “Spotify for books” (pandodaily.com) [edit]
  14. Ticketing Startup SeatGeek Raises $1.65M To Embrace Mobile And More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  15. Citation Needed [add]
  16. GiveForward Raises $2 Million For Crowd-sourced Donation Service (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  17. ThriveHive Raises $1.5 Million For Small Biz Marketing Subscription Service (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  18. Gradient X Raises $3.75 Million to Unlock Mobile Advertising, Because Someone Needs To (pandodaily.com) [edit]
  19. Meddik Grabs $750K From Chris Dixon, Founder Collective & More To Build A Better WebMD (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  20. Yuri Milner, Dave Morin, SV Angel, CrunchFund And More Hook Up Pair With $4.2M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  21. Publishers Sue As Boundless Learning Grabs $8M For An Open Alternative To Textbooks (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  22. Mobile Social Gaming Company Dragonplay Raises $14M From Accel To Expand To iOS (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  23. Boundless Learning Raises $1.7M, Taking Big Swing In Education (bostinno.com) [edit]
  24. EmployInsight Grabs $1M For Its Employee Measurement Platform (And NYSE As Its First Client) (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  25. See.me’s community is 500K artists, $1.5M strong (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  26. Caterina Fake’s Pinwheel raised $7.5M from Redpoint (gigaom.com) [edit]
  27. More Details On Caterina Fake’s New Startup, Pinwheel (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  28. Founder Collective Makes A $4 Million Bet On Paddle8′s Online Marketplace For Fine Art (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  29. Social Ridesharing Startup Ridejoy Raises $1.3M From Freestyle Capital, Lerer Ventures And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  30. SV Angel And Founder Collective Give Hackruiter $200K For Its Hacker School (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  31. SV Angel, Founder Collective And Others Put $850K In Customer Retention SaaS Custora (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  32. techcrunch.com [edit]
  33. IFTTT, A Glue Gun For Sticking The Web Together, Raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  34. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  35. Tutorspree Raises $1 Million Round Led By Sequoia Capital (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  36. Harvest Automation Ripens With $7.8M For Agriculture Robots (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
  37. Google Ventures And First Round Drop $2.1 Million Into Custom Marketplace CustomMade (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  38. HALL.com Raises $580K From Founder’s Collective And Others To Transform Realtime Collaboration (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  39. Social Recommendation Platform Top10 Raises $3.5M From Accel Partners, Idealab, Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  40. AI Exchange Raises $1.5M in Venture Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  41. Citation Needed [add]
  42. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  43. Read It Later Raises $2.5 Million, Wants To Become The Dropbox Of Content (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  44. Contently Raises Seed Capital To Give Writers And Publishers An Alternative To Content Farms (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  45. Penn Students Leave School to Launch CourseKit With $1 Million Seed Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  46. ToutApp Raises Seed Round from Esther Dyson, Dave McClure, Eric Ries and others. (www1.toutapp.com) [edit]
  47. Marketplace For Home-Cooked Food Gobble Raises $1.2M From Founder Collective, Greylock And Other Angels (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  48. Gigwalk Launches the First On-Demand Mobile Workforce; Receives $1.7M in Seed Funding From Harrison Metal, SoftTech VC and Greylock Discovery Fund (gigwalk.com) [edit]
  49. COLOURlovers Raises $1 Million To Make Everyone An Artist (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  50. SEC (sec.gov) [edit]
  51. Social Jukebox exfm Raises $750,000 For Its Music Discovery And Sharing Extension (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  52. Andreessen Horowitz Leads $1.75M Round In Freebie Marketplace Listia (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  53. Updated: Zencoder Raises $2M for Video Encoding in the Cloud (gigaom.com) [edit]
  54. Crowd-Sourced Design Startup Chirply Raises $1.1 Million, Launches Redesign (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  55. Social Game Developer A Bit Lucky Scores $5M From Nexon (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  56. The Demand Media of Search Engine Marketing, BoostCTR, Raises $1.6 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  57. Social Analytics Platform BackType Raises a Cool Million in Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  58. Breezy Gets $750K From Accel And Others, To Advance Its Mobile Printing Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  59. Huge Vote Of Confidence: Uber Raises $11 million From Benchmark Capital (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  60. Group Dating Startup Ignighter Raises $3 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  61. GraphEffect Raises $2 Million To Increase Brand “Likes” On Facebook (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  62. Stealth Milewise Raises $1.5 Million To Help People Cash In On Reward Programs (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  63. Pose: A Photo Sharing App For Fashion And Shopping That Just Raised $1.6 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  64. techcrunch.com [edit]
  65. Twitter List Service TLists Becomes Sulia, Raises $3.5 Million (allthingsd.com) [edit]
  66. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  67. Svpply is a Social Shopping Site With a Funny Name, Good Buzz and a New Funding Round (mediamemo.allthingsd.com) [edit]
  68. Shareable Ink Closes $4.5M Series A Financing Round (finsmes.com) [edit]
  69. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  70. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  71. UberCab raises $1.25M to end your futile search for taxis (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  72. SeatGeek Secures A Deal With The Wall Street Journal And $550k In Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  73. ADstruc, A Marketplace For Outdoor Advertising, Closes $1.1 Million Series A Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  74. Harvest Automation Secures Additional Funding and Adds Prominent CEOs of iRobot and Kiva Systems to Advisory Board (harvestautomation.com) [edit]
  75. Votizen Raises $1.5 Million To Make Sure Government Representatives Hear Your Voice (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  76. HowAboutWe Raises $3.1 Million For Its New Take On Online Dating (businessinsider.com) [edit]
  77. Backed With $1.3 Million, Pantheon Launches Drupal-Based Web Development Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  78. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  79. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  80. Digital Couponing Startup SaveWave Scores $2.3M From Leading Investors (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  81. Citation Needed [add]
  82. TC50 Finalist SeatGeek Closes $1 Million Series A Round, Partners With Nielsen (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  83. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  84. Kids Clothing Swap ThredUP Raises $1.4M From Trinity Ventures, Founder Collective And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  85. AdSafe Media Raises $7.25 Million For Brand Verification Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  86. HeyZap Lands Another $3 Million In Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  87. Trazzler Gets $1 Million From Star Investors, Takes a Page From Twitter’s Playbook [Video] (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  88. Photographic Evidence Of Stealth Startup Tello Raising $100k (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  89. TechCrunch: Metamarkets Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  90. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  91. BillGuard Raises $3M To Track Hidden Fees, Billing Errors On Credit Card Bills (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  92. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  93. NYC Startup Fluidinfo Raises $800K From Hotshot Investors (businessinsider.com) [edit]
  94. Extension Entertainment Inc. Launches ExtensionFM: A Chrome Extension That Turns The Entire Web Into Your Personal Music Library (blog.extension.fm) [edit]
  95. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
  96. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  97. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  98. ReadyForce Raises $12.2 Million For On-Demand Labor Marketplace (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  99. The Trade Desk CEO Green Announces Funding And Investors (adexchanger.com) [edit]
  100. SEC D (sec.gov) [edit]
  101. Investors listed on company site (betaworks.com) [edit]
  102. Citation Needed [add]
  103. Vook Announces $2.5 Million in Seed Financing (marketwire.com) [edit]
  104. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  105. Citation Needed [add]
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  107. Hot Potato Raises $1.42 For Event Social Networking (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
  108. Milo, a Site to Help People Shop Offline, Attracts Investors (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
  109. Online Art Store 20x200 Scores $800,000 From True Ventures And Angels (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  110. DealBase Raises $1 Million In Angel Funding (paidcontent.org) [edit]
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  113. Online Ordering Provider OLO Hits 1M Customers, Prepares To Launch GrubHub Integration (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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