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Founder's Co-op

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Founders’ Co-op, based in Seattle, Washington, is a seed-stage fund that helps extraordinary founding teams located outside the Bay Area build companies that the best VC firms in the world want to back.

The fund GPs – who also lead and manage TechStars Seattle – scout “secondary” innovation markets (i.e., everywhere but the Bay Area, with a particular focus on the Pacific Northwest) for extraordinary founders with the skills, insight and drive to build big, valuable companies in both Enterprise (60% of the portfolio to date) and Consumer (40%) sectors.

Founders Co-op portfolio companies have access to 60+ LP mentors, 150+ TechStars Seattle mentors and the founders of 40+ existing portfolio companies to create unfair advantage – including helping them raising Series A+ capital.

The fund is managed by co-founders Andy Sack and Chris DeVore.

Recent Milestones

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  Founder's Co-op invested in Haiku Deck. (4/3/13)
  Posted 8/17/11 at 12:15pm via techcrunch.com
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  Founder's Co-op invested in GroupTalent. (2/14/13)
  Posted 2/13/13 at 7:09pm via techcrunch.com
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  Founder's Co-op invested in FlexMinder. (1/30/13)
  Posted 1/30/13 at 8:22pm via freshnews.com
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  Founder's Co-op invested in Tred. (1/15/13)
  Posted 11/21/12 at 10:18pm via techcrunch.com
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  Founder's Co-op invested in Apptentive. (12/11/12)
  Posted 12/11/12 at 4:02am via techcrunch.com
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  Founder's Co-op invested in Vadio. (9/1/12)
  Posted 5/8/13 at 10:10am
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  Founder's Co-op invested in Haiku Deck. (7/1/12)
  Posted 8/30/12 at 12:26pm via geekwire.com
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  Founder's Co-op invested in Remitly. (4/11/12)
  Posted 4/11/12 at 5:25pm via techcrunch.com
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  Founder's Co-op invested in Unbounce. (12/1/11)
  Posted 12/1/11 at 7:14pm via finsmes.com
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  Founder's Co-op invested in Highlighter. (12/1/11)
  Posted 8/6/12 at 10:27am
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  Founder's Co-op invested in Clipboard. (11/7/11)
  Posted 11/8/11 at 11:00am via techcrunch.com
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  Founder's Co-op invested in Apsalar. (9/13/11)
  Posted 9/13/11 at 4:16am via techcrunch.com
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  Founder's Co-op invested in AppFog. (8/10/11)
  Posted 8/11/11 at 5:19am via gigaom.com
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  Founder's Co-op invested in Simply Measured. (8/1/11)
  Posted 1/22/13 at 9:04am via geekwire.com
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  Founder's Co-op invested in Haiku Deck. (4/15/11)
  Posted 8/17/11 at 12:04pm via geekwire.com
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  Founder's Co-op invested in Thinkfuse. (3/24/11)
  Posted 3/24/11 at 9:47pm via techcrunch.com

Investments

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1. Founder’s Co-Op Closes $8M Second Fund (xconomy.com) [edit]
2. http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/07/seattles-top-entrepreneurs-band-together-to-invest/ (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. With 500K Downloads, Haiku Deck Raises $3M Series A For Its Unique, Mobile-First Presentation Creation App (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. GroupTalent Grabs $1M From Founders Co-Op, Menlo & Others To Help Businesses Connect With Top Technical Talent (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. FlexMinder Announces $1.4M in Series AA Financing (freshnews.com) [edit]
6. Tred Gets $1.7M To Be An Uber For Car Test Drives (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. Apptentive Scores $1.2M From Founder’s Co-Op, Google Ventures, To Help Mobile App Publishers Solicit Better Feedback (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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9. A next-gen PowerPoint? Haiku Deck looks to help people make beautiful presentations (geekwire.com) [edit]
10. Mobile Payments Startup Beamit Raises $2.4M From Founder’s Co-op, Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt & Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
11. Unbounce Raises $850K in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
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13. ‘Web Clipping 2.0′ Startup Clipboard Backed By Andreessen Horowitz, Index, CrunchFund, Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
14. Apsalar Raises $5 Million For Mobile Analytics And Behavioral Targeting Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
15. AppFog lands $8M for PHP Cloud (gigaom.com) [edit]
16. Simply Measured rings up $750,000 to help brands monitor social media chatter (geekwire.com) [edit]
17. Posse on Facebook? Sir Mix-A-Lot debuts social media game with Seattle's Giant Thinkwell (geekwire.com) [edit]
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19. Much more than a blog commenting system, Highlighter raises $300,000 (geekwire.com) [edit]
20. Deal Co-op takes space in Innovation Depot following incubator expansion (bizjournals.com) [edit]
21. PHP Fog Raises $1.8 Million To Be The Heroku Of PHP (techcrunch.com) [edit]
22. Founders Co-op (founderscoop.com) [edit]
23. Urban Airship Closes $5.4 Million Funding Round To Help Power Mobile Apps (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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26. Untitled Startup (untitledstartup.com) [edit]
27. Urban Airship raises $1.1M to provide infrastructure for mobile apps (mobile.venturebeat.com) [edit]
28. Appature Raises $3.5M, Led by Ignition and Madrona, to Expand Healthcare Customer Base (xconomy.com) [edit]
29. BigDoor Opens Doors To Public Beta Of Website And iPhone App Monetization Tool (techcrunch.com) [edit]
30. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/23/lookstat-raises-500k-for-microstock-photography-analytics/ [edit]
31. FrugalMechanic Gets A Tune-Up With A New Round Of Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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