Investor profile

Founder Collective

Venture Capital · Founded 2009 · Cambridge, United States

Massachusetts-based seed-stage venture capital fund that helps entrepreneurs build their businesses

327 portfolio companies Venture Capital · $2.9B invested · 498 investments · Investor rank #1,070 · Last investment 4/2026

Portfolio companies 327 ↑ 19% 5y

Decacorns 6

Thoroughbreds 31 ↑ 3% 5y

Power Law #24Investor Ranking · Global · 2026 · Top 0.5%

Estimated holdings

Founder Collective’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Founder Collective’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 2 companies where Founder Collective is a named shareholder, worth about $152M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value

1 SunoMusic · Unicorn 4% $2.5B $98M
2 TalosFintech · Unicorn 3.6% $1.5B $54M

Estimated value = Founder Collective’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Founder Collective also appears inside investor groups in Airtable, Socure, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

Exits

Founder Collective’s biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Founder Collective’s transaction record.

Uber

$82B IPO · 2019

Entered SeedNow $150BFood

Coupang

$60B IPO · 2021

Entered SeedNow $28BFashion

McAfee

$8.6B IPO · 2020

Entered Series ANow $14BSecurity

The Trade Desk

$1.1B IPO · 2016

Entered SeedNow $7.6BMarketing

OLO

$3.5B IPO · 2021

Entered Series ANow $1.4BFood

Integral Ad Science

$3.3B IPO · 2021

Entered Series B+Now $1.6BMedia

Riskified

$3.3B IPO · 2021

Entered SeedNow $449MSecurity

OpenGov

$1.8B acquisition · 2024

Entered Series AFintech

Stack Overflow

$1.8B acquisition · 2021

Entered Series AMedia

BuzzFeed

$1.5B IPO · 2021

Entered Series B+Now $174MMedia

Omada Health

$1.3B IPO · 2025

Entered SeedNow $977MHealth

thredUP

$1.3B IPO · 2021

Entered SeedNow $760MFashion

Portfolio analysis

Where Founder Collective’s portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 327 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount

USA298
UK10
Israel5
Canada4
Australia1
Brazil1
China1
Finland1
Germany1
India1
Ireland1
Kenya1

By sectorCount

Enterprise Software72
Fintech42
Media40
Marketing38
Health29
Education22
Fashion19
Food16
Telecom16
Transportation15
Real Estate14
Security14

By stage enteredCount

Seed228
Series A87
Series B+10

By growth stageCount

Early Growth154
Breakout Stage117
Late Growth55
Mature3

Portfolio market map

Inside Founder Collective’s portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 327 tracked.

Enterprise Software · Decacorn

Transportation · Unicorn

$1.0B

Tulip Interfaces

Enterprise Software · Unicorn

Jobs Recruitment · Unicorn

Portfolio founders

Where Founder Collective’s portfolio founders come from.

190 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount

United States150
United Kingdom9
Israel5
Canada3
France3
Australia2
Argentina1
China1
Peru1
South Korea1

UniversityCount

Harvard University23
Massachusetts Institute of Technology23
Harvard Business School13
Columbia University6
Cornell University6
Stanford University6
Duke University5
Princeton University5
Babson College4
University of California, Santa Barbara4

Previous companyCount

Microsoft8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology6
Alphabet | Google4
Harvard University4
IBM4
Amazon3
Bain & Company3
Boeing3
Chegg3
Cheggindia3

How Founder Collective stacks up

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Key people

Key people at Founder Collective.

Source: Dealroom next-gen API — investor team endpoint.

Figures on this page are sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API, joined with Dealroom’s cap-table dataset (estimated holdings) and the Power Law Investor Ranking. News in “Featured in” is drawn from Dealroom’s own coverage — the stories that name this investor, not only those it is the subject of. Market sentiment is omitted until the API exposes it.