Founder Collective

Founder Collective is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with an additional office in New York City. Established by a group of successful entrepreneurs, the firm aims to provide a supportive framework for early-stage technology companies. It emphasizes the importance of entrepreneurs raising the least amount of capital necessary to maintain control over their firms. The company focuses on seed-stage investments and is industry agnostic, although it shows a preference for businesses that incorporate information technology. Founder Collective seeks to guide startups through the complexities of venture capital, drawing on the firsthand experiences of its partners who have founded and sold their own technology companies.

Elliot Cohen

Founder and Partner

Joe DeFilippi

CFO

Amanda Herson

Seed Investor

Eric Paley

Managing Partner

Micah Rosenbloom

Managing Partner

James Tamplin

Founder Partner

Brent Willess

Principal

Past deals in Boston, MA

Mable

Series A in 2020
Mable is an online wholesale platform designed for retailers and distributors to discover and purchase products. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Mable offers a diverse range of brands, including Black Dinah Chocolatiers, Brave Coffee & Tea, Coastal Craft Kombucha, Crown Maple, Eddie's Bakery, Loco Coffee, Real Food Bar, and STOKES Firestarters. The platform serves as a mobile and web-based B2B e-commerce solution specifically tailored for grocers, facilitating the buying process in the wholesale market.

Mable

Seed Round in 2019
Mable is an online wholesale platform designed for retailers and distributors to discover and purchase products. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Mable offers a diverse range of brands, including Black Dinah Chocolatiers, Brave Coffee & Tea, Coastal Craft Kombucha, Crown Maple, Eddie's Bakery, Loco Coffee, Real Food Bar, and STOKES Firestarters. The platform serves as a mobile and web-based B2B e-commerce solution specifically tailored for grocers, facilitating the buying process in the wholesale market.

Zoba

Seed Round in 2019
Zoba, Inc. is a Boston-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in providing a web application to enhance the operational efficiency of mobility operators. The company offers an API-first platform that automates decision-making processes related to fleet rebalancing, driver tasking, routing, and dynamic pricing. By leveraging real-time predictions of human behavior and environmental data, Zoba enables organizations to optimize their networks and improve fleet performance across more than 150 cities worldwide. This technology helps mobility operators increase profitability and customer satisfaction by minimizing guesswork in their operations and enabling informed decisions about risk and locational strategies.

Sentenai

Seed Round in 2017
Sentenai Inc. is a Boston-based company that specializes in a cloud-based platform designed to automate data engineering for machine learning and predictive applications, particularly in the Internet of Things (IoT) and logistics sectors. Founded in 2015, Sentenai provides a service that connects intelligent systems to the necessary data for real-time decision-making. Its platform integrates distributed systems and applied machine learning to automatically organize sensor data streams, rendering them searchable and accessible. By automating data integration and enabling continuous analysis, Sentenai allows organizations to gain a comprehensive view of their systems, facilitating agile decision-making and generating actionable insights from operational data.

Alyce

Seed Round in 2017
Alyce is an AI-powered platform that works as a door-opener or to continue to develop real sales relationships. The platform redefining direct mail, swag and gifts with its scalable, sustainable, hyper-personalized approach to account-based marketing. It uses personal social data to tell you the perfect gift to give and handles orders, shipping, and reporting for 1-10,000 gifts, and is 100% free. Alyce builds real, personal relationships that deliver up to twice the named account penetration and drives 5x pipeline versus traditional approaches. It makes B2B gift-giving simple, effective and measurable. The company was founded in December of 2015, Alyce is a privately held company headquartered in Boston, MA.

Sentenai

Seed Round in 2016
Sentenai Inc. is a Boston-based company that specializes in a cloud-based platform designed to automate data engineering for machine learning and predictive applications, particularly in the Internet of Things (IoT) and logistics sectors. Founded in 2015, Sentenai provides a service that connects intelligent systems to the necessary data for real-time decision-making. Its platform integrates distributed systems and applied machine learning to automatically organize sensor data streams, rendering them searchable and accessible. By automating data integration and enabling continuous analysis, Sentenai allows organizations to gain a comprehensive view of their systems, facilitating agile decision-making and generating actionable insights from operational data.

Whoop

Series A in 2014
WHOOP is the performance optimization system that tracks recovery, training, and sleeping hours thus helping elite athletes and teams win. The company provides athletes, coaches, and trainers with a continuous understanding of strain and recovery to balance training, reduce injuries, and predict performance. It creates a product that makes individuals and teams perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives. The WHOOP Strap 3.0 collects physiological data 24/7 to provide an accurate and granular understanding of the body. Aurelian Nicolae, John Capodilupo, and Will Ahmed established WHOOP in 2012 and in Boston, Massachusetts.

Whoop

Seed Round in 2013
WHOOP is the performance optimization system that tracks recovery, training, and sleeping hours thus helping elite athletes and teams win. The company provides athletes, coaches, and trainers with a continuous understanding of strain and recovery to balance training, reduce injuries, and predict performance. It creates a product that makes individuals and teams perform at a higher level through a deeper understanding of their bodies and daily lives. The WHOOP Strap 3.0 collects physiological data 24/7 to provide an accurate and granular understanding of the body. Aurelian Nicolae, John Capodilupo, and Will Ahmed established WHOOP in 2012 and in Boston, Massachusetts.
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