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Founder Collective
VC firm · Founded 2009 · Active in 2026
Founder Collective was founded in 2009 by Eric Paley, David Frankel, and Micah Rosenbloom in Cambridge, Massachusetts and New York. The firm is Seed-only by design — its explicit philosophy is that the interests of Seed-stage and venture-stage investors diverge, and Founder Collective sides with founders by staying small and not following on at later stages.
Notable bets include The Trade Desk, Coupang, SeatGeek, and PillPack.
Founder Collective’s biggest exits.
Founder Collective portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
Founder Collective’s selected top 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.
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 →
The 35 Founder Collective Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA31
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India2
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Israel1
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UK1
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eCommerce & Marketplaces7
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Fintech6
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Other B2B Software4
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Marketing3
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Edtech3
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Transportation3
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AI2
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Biotech & Life Sciences2
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Other2
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Robotics1
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Cybersecurity1
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Health Tech & Medtech1
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Series B+4
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Series A6
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Seed23
Founder Collective's 35 Power Law outcomes.
How does Founder Collective stack up?
Founder Collective in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 34 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by entry stage and outcome tierSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsWhere Founder Collective's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
74 founders across the 35 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Founder Collective.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Founder Collective
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Founder Collective on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
In the news
Latest news about Founder Collective
Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Founder Collective — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.
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