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Founder Collective
Venture capital · Cambridge, MA, United States · North America
Founder Collective is a venture capital fund that invests at the earliest stages and partners with entrepreneurs from idea to IPO. It describes itself as stage-focused on seed and pre-seed, sector agnostic, and anti-thematic, leading and participating in rounds without rigid ownership targets.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsseedpre-seedsector agnosticfounder alignmentcapital efficiencyai
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Or find every investor that fitsFounder Collective lists 185 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 11 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 60% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (23%), Healthcare & Biotech (10%) and Fintech (10%). 87% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Techstars, Lerer Hippeau and Y Combinator.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Founder Collective, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Founder Collective's whole history. Rounds on record name 11 companies; its own site lists 185. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 60% |
| Series A | 30% |
| Series B | 10% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 5 | 0 |
| '26 | 5 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 98th | 185 companies |
| Recent activity | 91th | 7 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 76th | 60% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 59th | 4% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 28th | 23% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 96th | 11 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 23% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 10% | 15% |
| Fintech | 10% | 12% |
| Enterprise Software | 10% | 8% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 9% | 6% |
| Cybersecurity | 7% | 4% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 5% | 7% |
| Education | 4% | 7% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Techstars | 12 |
| Lerer Hippeau | 11 |
| Y Combinator | 10 |
| Salesforce Ventures | 9 |
| Accel | 8 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 8 |
| BoxGroup | 8 |
| General Catalyst | 8 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers18097%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company53%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Founder Collective head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Founder Collective| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Sept 2026 | Series A | |
| 24 Aug 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 11 Aug 2026 | Seed | |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Seed | |
| 10 Mar 2026 | Series A | |
| 9 Dec 2025 | Series A | |
| 3 Dec 2025 | Series B | |
| 7 Oct 2025 | Seed |
Round details for Founder Collective
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Founder Collective's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
185 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coupang connects thousands of U.S. companies and brands to international markets, exporting billions in American goods annually to Asia and beyond. | E-commerce & MarketplacesFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Adiabatic Machines builds superconducting AI processors that deliver orders of magnitude better efficiency, cooling included. | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| The company is building RelaySort, a compact sortation engine for retailers to deliver items to customers | Robotics & HardwareE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| AirOps works with clients to set and execute the right AI discovery strategy to earn an agent's trust and drive growth for their brand. | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Airtable provides a platform for building custom applications and workflows | Enterprise SoftwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Altro Health provides a platform for wellness businesses to offer clinician-guided services and products to their clients | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Anjuna provides cloud data security and privacy preserving AI solutions | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides AI-powered coworkers for various business tasks and teams, such as marketing, sales, finance, and operations. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Oct 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Aranya automates GPU orchestration to turn bare metal into custom production-ready clusters in 48 hours | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| B12 creates websites, stores, and web apps using artificial intelligence. | AI & Machine LearningE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Badge2 coordinates prisoner transport between agencies | Legal & ComplianceCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Baselayer provides business identity verification, risk, and fraud services to various industries, including finance and commerce. | FintechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| BaubleBar sells jewelry and personalized accessories | E-commerce & MarketplacesConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Betaworks invests in and works with creators and makers. | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| The company sells prenatals, fertility supplements, and tests | Healthcare & Biotech | Sept 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| The company manages corporate health claims | Healthcare & BiotechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Bridge Money offers a debit card and app that rewards users with cash back and other incentives for everyday purchases and activities | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| Broadlume provides software for flooring businesses to manage operations and generate leads | Real Estate & ConstructionEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Burner provides temporary phone numbers for privacy and calls | Consumer | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 13 Nov 2026- Site
- foundercollective.com
- Last read
- 13 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 20 Apr 2016
- Companies checked
- 185
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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