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Founders' Co-op
Venture capital · Seattle, WA, United States · North America
Founders' Co-op is a Seattle-based venture capital fund that makes seed and early-stage investments, typically writing the first institutional check of $1-1.5M into a company's first $1M-$3M fundraise. It is run by two founder-investors, Aviel and Chris, and also runs a community for founders in the Seattle region.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software
In its own wordsenterprise softwaretechnical foundersseed stagepacific northwestfounder community
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Or find every investor that fitsFounders' Co-op lists 5 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 6 funding rounds, 3 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 83% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (50%), Enterprise Software (30%) and Cybersecurity (10%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside A.Capital Ventures, Act One Ventures and Alumni Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Founders' Co-op, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 17% |
| Seed | 83% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| 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 | 1 | 1 |
| '26 | 5 | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 4th | 5 companies |
| Recent activity | 86th | 5 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 85th | 50% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| A.Capital Ventures | 1 |
| Act One Ventures | 1 |
| Alumni Ventures | 1 |
| Ascend | 1 |
| Audacious Ventures | 1 |
| BoxGroup | 1 |
| Canaan | 1 |
| Draper Associates | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers5100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 50% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 30% | 8% |
| Cybersecurity | 10% | 4% |
| Fintech | 10% | 12% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with A.Capital Ventures
Compare Founders' Co-op 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 Founders' Co-op| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Jul 2026 | Pre-Seed Led | |
| 20 May 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 5 May 2026 | Seed | |
| 29 Jan 2026 | Seed | |
| 20 Oct 2025 | Seed Led |
Round details for Founders' Co-op
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Founders' Co-op's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
5 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arkero connects a sports business's existing technology stack into one intelligence layer that AI agents can reason over to perform tasks such as recovering renewals and planning matchdays. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Jan 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| The company provides an AI engineering layer for the OS stack to diagnose and analyze issues in various systems, including mobile, automotive, and embedded Linux. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Jul 2026Pre-Seed | Funding round | |
| The company provides a platform for building and deploying software agents based on specifications | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Oct 2025Seed | Funding round | |
| SageOx develops a product that helps teams work with AI agents by capturing and utilizing context from conversations and decisions | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | May 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| StitcherAI provides IT finance intelligence for cloud, AI, and SaaS investments | FintechAI & Machine Learning | May 2026Seed | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 11 Nov 2026- Site
- founderscoop.com
- Last read
- 11 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 20 Oct 2025
- Companies checked
- 5
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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