Founder Collective

Founder Collective, established in 2009 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with an additional office in New York, is a venture capital firm managed by entrepreneurs who have founded and sold technology companies. The firm focuses on seed-stage investments in technology-related companies across the United States, with a preference for the Boston and New York regions. Founder Collective aims to provide a user-friendly approach to venture capital, advising entrepreneurs to raise the least amount of money necessary to maintain control of their firms. The firm manages multiple funds, including Founder Collective I, II, III, and IV, investing between $0.2 to $2 million per round, primarily in the software and information technology sectors.

Joe DeFilippi

Partner and CFO

Noah Glass

Partner

Jack Groetzinger

Founder Partner

Amanda Herson

General Partner

Eric Paley

General Partner

Brent Willess

Principal

Past deals in Media

Sonoro

Seed Round in 2020
Sonoro is a global entertainment company focused on creating culturally relevant audio-first content in English and Spanish, including Spanglish. The company collaborates with both established and emerging talent to produce engaging stories that can be accessed anytime and anywhere, whether on a computer, mobile device, or during activities such as exercising or shopping. By delivering content that resonates with diverse audiences, Sonoro aims to enhance the way people consume stories, making it convenient for users to stay informed and entertained while managing their daily routines.

Memo

Seed Round in 2020
Memo is a media marketplace designed specifically for public relations professionals, aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of earned media. The company leverages innovative data to transform how brands measure and share their narratives, establishing a new standard for public relations measurement. By collaborating with publications, Memo provides access to actual readership data on earned articles, allowing companies to gain valuable insights into their communications strategies. This data-driven approach supports major brands in optimizing their PR efforts, offering insights across various areas such as campaign summaries, competitive analysis, content strategy, and crisis management. Memo's commitment to revealing the true value of earned media positions it as a leader in the PR and communications industry.

PROPS

Venture Round in 2017
PROPS is a new cryptocurrency that grants access to features, content and status across media apps that share a currency and identity layer, and whose users benefit from the PROPS rewards pool.

Stanza

Seed Round in 2015
Stanza is an internet company that creates own events calendars, and share with family, friends, and beyond. The company empowers people and organizations to create their own event calendars, subscribe, and share. To date, 6M+ fans have found and synced over 315M events via Stanza. Notable publishers include NBA, NHL, and NFL teams, FOX Sports, Billboard, Warner Brothers, and thousands more. These organizations can also distribute content and video across Stanza’s network of nearly 200M monthly page views. Stanza smart Add to Calendar button is easy to embed in any business' website/mobile app and offers its audience a two-click process to sync future events with any calendar. The product includes a dashboard that lets businesses modify their events on the fly, track links and eventually drive transactions.

Media Radar

Venture Round in 2014
MediaRadar, now including the data and capabilities of Vivvix, powers the mission-critical marketing and sales decisions that drive competitive advantage. Our innovative solutions enable clients to achieve peak performance with always-on marketing intelligence that spans the media, creative, and business strategies of five million brands across 30+ media channels. By bringing the advertising past, present, and future into focus, our clients rapidly act on the competitive moves and emerging advertising trends impacting their business.

Stanza

Venture Round in 2014
Stanza is an internet company that creates own events calendars, and share with family, friends, and beyond. The company empowers people and organizations to create their own event calendars, subscribe, and share. To date, 6M+ fans have found and synced over 315M events via Stanza. Notable publishers include NBA, NHL, and NFL teams, FOX Sports, Billboard, Warner Brothers, and thousands more. These organizations can also distribute content and video across Stanza’s network of nearly 200M monthly page views. Stanza smart Add to Calendar button is easy to embed in any business' website/mobile app and offers its audience a two-click process to sync future events with any calendar. The product includes a dashboard that lets businesses modify their events on the fly, track links and eventually drive transactions.

Periscope

Seed Round in 2014
Periscope, Inc. is a full-service marketing agency headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with additional offices in Chicago, Toronto, Hong Kong, and Delhi. Established in 1964, the agency has become the largest independent agency in the Twin Cities, employing around 240 individuals. Periscope offers a comprehensive range of services, including strategy and analytics, branding, advertising, digital and social media marketing, experiential events, media planning and buying, e-commerce, and direct response marketing. The company also provides specialized services such as global photography, packaging, retouching, and vendor management. Serving diverse industries such as sports, retail, healthcare, and corporate communications, Periscope has built an impressive portfolio of local, national, and international clients. As of January 2019, it operates as a subsidiary of Quad/Graphics, Inc., further enhancing its capabilities in the marketing sector.

PJX Media

Seed Round in 2010
PJX Media is an out-of-home advertising agency that specializes in creating and executing advertising campaigns across various formats, including billboards and transit ads. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Denver, the company utilizes advanced technology to facilitate the entire advertising process, from audience-based planning to execution and performance reporting. PJX Media offers a comprehensive suite of services, including strategic planning that leverages data to identify target markets and optimize budgets, as well as management services that ensure campaign success through proof of posting and detailed performance analysis. As a subsidiary of ADstruc, PJX Media combines industry expertise with innovative tools to enhance the effectiveness of out-of-home advertising for its clients.

Integral Ad Science

Series B in 2010
Integral Ad Science operates as a media valuation platform that enables digital buyers and sellers to assess the value of every advertising opportunity across various channels and screens, facilitating informed decisions in the digital advertising ecosystem. The company offers solutions such as Firewall for blocking unwanted impressions, Causal Impact for quantifying buying strategies' effectiveness, Bid Expert for dynamic data-driven programmatic buying, Server Link for API data exchange integration, and Pub Expert for detailed analysis of individual advertising units. Integral Ad Science's technology provides insights across multiple media quality metrics to enhance online advertising potential. The company serves brands, agencies, publishers, and ad-tech companies, with a mission to be the global benchmark for trust and transparency in digital media quality. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in New York, Integral Ad Science has additional offices globally.
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