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Websitefounderscoop.com
Twitter@founderscoop
Emailhi@founderscoop.com
Employees2
Founded3/08

Funds

Total$10.5M
Fund II, 1/12 $8M
Fund I, 1/08 $2.5M

Offices

HQ
511 Boren North
Suite 200
Seattle, WA, 98109
USA

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Founder's Co-op

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

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Haiku Deck 4/13Series A$3M5
GroupTalent 2/13Seed$1M3
FlexMinder 1/13Series A$1.4M2
Tred 1/13Angel$1.7M8
Apptentive 12/12Seed$1.2M4
Vadio 9/12Seed10
Haiku Deck 7/12Seed$300k3
Remitly 4/12Seed$1.65M6
Unbounce 12/11Venture Round$850k6
Highlighter 12/11Angel$330k6
Clipboard 11/11Seed14
Apsalar 9/11Series A$5M5
AppFog 8/11Series B$8M4
Simply Measured 8/11Angel$750k2
Haiku Deck 4/11Seed$600k2
Thinkfuse 3/11Angel$520k9
Highlighter 3/11Angel$300k3
Deal Co-op 2/11Angel$500k3
AppFog 1/11Series A$1.8M4
Zipline Games 12/10Seed1
Urban Airship 11/10Series B$5.4M3
Apsalar 11/10Seed$800k4
Lighter Capital 6/10Venture Round$6M2
Untitled Startup 3/10Seed$250k1
Urban Airship 2/10Series A$1.1M3
Appature 12/09Series A$3.5M3
BigDoor 10/09Seed$250k1
LookStat 4/09Series A$500k1
FrugalMechanic 2/09Seed1
Orange Line Media 1/08Seed$500k1
Cooler Planet 1/08Seed1
Askablogr 1/08Seed1

Videos

Sources

  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]
  18. techcrunch.com [edit]
  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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