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The Founder VC

Venture capital · United States · North America

The Founder VC is a venture capital firm that invests in pre-seed and seed stage companies. It co-invests alongside other venture firms in venture-scale rounds.

Invests inAI & Machine Learning

In its own wordsvertical ai artificial intelligence pre-seed seed

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9portfolio companies

2funding rounds on record

2rounds, last 12 months

$1M to $5Mtypical round it comes in at

Pre-seedmost frequent entry

The Founder VC lists 9 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Pre-seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (44%), E-commerce & Marketplaces (6%) and Healthcare & Biotech (6%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Draper Associates, Act One Ventures and Actions Capital.

Counts come from funding rounds that name The Founder VC, 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 round

50%

Pre-seed

Seed

Series A

Series B

Growth

Stated on its site

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Share of companies by the stage of the firm's first round
	Value
Pre-seed	50%
Seed	50%
Series A	0%
Series B	0%
Growth	0%

Activity by year

rounds it joined, last 10 years

'17

'18

'19

'20

'21

'22

'23

'24

'25

'26

Rounds it ledRounds it joinedPartly covered: rounds are complete from mid-2025

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Funding rounds per year
	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	0	0
'26	2	0

Investor profile

percentile among all firms

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The Founder VC compared with all firms
Measure	Percentile of all firms	Value
Portfolio size	19th	9 companies
Recent activity	69th	2 rounds in 12 months
Early stage	100th	100% of entries at pre-seed or seed
Evidence	93th	22% of companies confirmed by a round
Sector focus	78th	44% in its largest sector
Reach	19th	1 country

Investment themes

share of its checked companies

AI & Machine Learning 44%E-commerce & Marketplaces 6%Healthcare & Biotech 6%Media & Entertainment 6%Real Estate & Construction 6%Space & Defense 6%Consumer 6%Cybersecurity 6%

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Investment themes
	This firm	All checked companies
AI & Machine Learning	44%	18%
E-commerce & Marketplaces	6%	6%
Healthcare & Biotech	6%	15%
Media & Entertainment	6%	4%
Real Estate & Construction	6%	3%
Space & Defense	6%	3%
Consumer	6%	3%
Cybersecurity	6%	4%

Invests most often with

firms sharing its portfolio companies

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Co-investors
	Share
Draper Associates	2
Act One Ventures	1
Actions Capital	1
Alumni Ventures	1
Audacious Ventures	1
Citta Capital	1
Crosslink Capital	1
DEPO Ventures	1

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Its portfolio companies

where they are based, and what their own sites show

Headquarters

United States100%

Site status

Site answers9100%
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.

Co-investor network

who it backs companies with, and who they back together

Shared portfolio companies with The Founder VCFirms that also back companies together

All co-investors or Compare portfolios with Draper Associates

Compare The Founder VC head to head

portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both back

vs Draper Associates2 shared companies

vs Act One Ventures1 shared company

vs Actions Capital1 shared company

vs Alumni Ventures1 shared company

vs Audacious Ventures1 shared company

vs Citta Capital1 shared company

Three or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.

Recent portfolio activity

when companies last raised with The Founder VC

Date	Company	Stage
16 Jul 2026	logcat.ailogcat.ai	Pre-Seed
7 Apr 2026	www.ridgedata.ai/ridgedata.ai	Seed

Round details for The Founder VC

Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in The Founder VC's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.

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Portfolio

9 companies checked against their own sites

Company	What it does	Themes	First round with it	Evidence
Autoauto.inc	The company provides an app that organizes and allows searching of photos, connected to personal assistants.	AI & Machine LearningConsumer		Portfolio page
Catchousecatchouse.com · United States	Catchouse connects users with local real estate experts and provides neighborhood insights	Real Estate & Construction		Portfolio page
Daydreamdaydream.ing	The company provides an AI shopping agent for fashion brands	E-commerce & MarketplacesAI & Machine Learning		Portfolio page
Liminaryliminary.io	Liminary provides AI-powered storage and memory solutions for professionals and small teams to manage and retrieve information	AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software		Portfolio page
logcat.ailogcat.ai · United States	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	Page + round
Otismeetotis.com	Otis AI manages planning, targeting, testing, optimization, and reporting to help businesses and agencies execute paid ads	AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment		Portfolio page
Planetteplanette.ai · United States	The company provides long-range weather forecasts using AI and Earth science advances.	AI & Machine LearningClimate & Energy		Portfolio page
Potato AIreadysetpotato.com · United States	Potato builds AI-native software that helps scientists research methods, build protocols, design experiments, and improve plate-based assays in one connected workspace.	Healthcare & Biotech		Portfolio page
www.ridgedata.ai/ridgedata.ai · United States	Ridge AI provides AI-native embedded analytics for SaaS companies	AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense	Apr 2026Seed	Page + round

About this data

site last read 5 Nov 2026

The homepage of The Founder VC, as last read — thefounder.vc as VCinfo last read it

Site: thefounder.vc
Last read: 5 Nov 2026
Watching since: 6 Nov 2026
Rounds since: 7 Apr 2026
Companies checked: 9

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