Founded in 2009, Founder Collective is a venture capital firm primarily based in New York, New York. The firm also has offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and San Francisco, California. It was established by David Frankel, Caterina Fake, Chris Dixon, Eric Paley, Zach Klein, Bill Trenchard, and Micah Rosenbloom. As of February 2019, the firm is managing 163 companies in its portfolio and has sold off its shares in 128 companies. Within the same month, the firm made its most recent investment, which was to Zoba, a company providing services for spatial analytics for urban landscapes.
Funding
Founder Collective focuses on funding companies that are based in the US’ East Coast. The firm prefers to fund companies in these industries: e-commerce, healthcare, advertising, mobile and Internet of things. It provides capital for startups in the seed and early stage of development. The firm has managed to collect a total amount of $185 million in fund with its most recent round held in November 2016, raising a total amount of $75 million.
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Funded Companies
BuzzFeed is digital media and technology company delivering news and entertainment content.
Uber Technologies Inc. is a transportation network company (TNC) headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Skillshare is a New York-based educational technology company offering an online learning community for creative entrepreneurs.
A company developing fraud-prevention technology for the e-commerce industry.
Universe is a mobile website builder offering no code development founded in 2014 by Joseph Cohen.
Heyzap is a mobile advertising platform that was acquired by Fyber for $45m in 2015. It was founded in 2008 and was located in San Francisco, California.
CompStak is a New York-based company founded in 2011 by Vadim Belobrovka.
42floors is a company providing a platform for searching office space. It participated in the W12 cohort of Y Combinator.
Paid is a San Francisco-based modern billing automation platform for small and large businesses.
Sift Science offers fraud detection technology for companies.
A mobile application, owned by PayPal, that allows users to make fast and direct money exchanges, which can then be transferred directly to the user's bank account.
ThriveHive is a Boston-based company founded by Max Faingezicht, Bryan Pedlar, Nic Mendoza and Adam Blake.
Optimizely is an American multinational internet and technology corporation. It builds customer experience optimization software for enterprises.
zipongo is a San Francisco-based company founded by Jason Langheier.
Pantheon is the website management platform for Drupal & WordPress sites.
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People
Alex Davidov
Employee
Ali Hampton
Employee
Andy Palmer
Founder Partner
Bill Trenchard
Employee
Blanca Rodriguez
Employee
Caterina Fake
Founder
Chris Dixon
Founder
Courtney Stevens
Employee
Craig Wilson
Employee
David Frankel
Founder/Managing Partner
David Peterson
Employee
Eric Paley
Founder/Managing Partner
Founder Collective
Employee
Gaurav Jain
Employee
Jane Wu
Employee
Jason Finger
Investor
Joe DeFilippi
Employee
Joseph Flaherty
Employee
Josh Stylman
Investor
Katherine O'Neil
Employee
Micah Rosenbloom
Founder/Managing Partner
Michael Kim
Investor
Nathaniel Naddaff-Hafrey
Employee
Osman Ahmed Osman
Employee
Parul Singh
Principal
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