Founder Collective

Founder Collective is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2009 with roots in Cambridge, Massachusetts and offices in New York. The firm is built by entrepreneurs who have founded and exited technology companies, and it aims to back founders by providing practical capital and guidance to navigate the risks of venture funding. It concentrates on early investments in technology companies, with an emphasis on software and information technology, and it makes bets across the United States and beyond, though its roots are on the East Coast. The team partners with portfolio companies to help them scale, often supporting startups that seek modest initial financings. Through its network and hands-on approach, Founder Collective seeks to partner with ambitious teams to grow durable, technology-driven businesses.

Joe DeFilippi

CFO

David Frankel

Managing Partner

Amanda Herson

Principal and Investor

Zach Klein

Founder and Partner

Eric Paley

Managing Partner

Past deals in Software

Rynse

Seed Round in 2025
Rynse specializes in fleet management software for businesses, particularly those in technology and automotive sectors. Its platform offers features such as compliance tracking, expense management, real-time analytics, and streamlined billing processes to enhance operational efficiency. Users can manage their fleets remotely.

AirOps

Series A in 2024
AirOps is a technology company specializing in data analytics platforms. It empowers operators to transform business data into actionable insights, offering interactive enterprise analytics, data discovery tools, and streamlined analysis processes. This enables businesses to generate more revenue from their data.

Anjuna

Series B in 2024
Anjuna is a company that specializes in cloud security, providing a platform designed to deliver hardware-grade protection for sensitive data, applications, and workloads. The company's innovative technology leverages secure computing capabilities to ensure that enterprises can safely operate their most critical workloads in the public cloud. By utilizing end-to-end encryption and secure enclaves, Anjuna protects against insider threats and malicious code, offering a more robust alternative to traditional perimeter security solutions. This approach allows businesses to confidently take advantage of cloud resources while maintaining the highest levels of data security.

TravelJoy

Series A in 2024
TravelJoy is a travel management platform designed to enhance the trip planning experience for travel agents and their clients. It provides a suite of tools that streamline the booking process, allowing travel professionals to manage their businesses more efficiently. The platform offers modern, digital solutions that simplify invoicing and secure payments, enabling users to save time and stay organized. By focusing on these essential services, TravelJoy aims to help travel agents attract ideal clients more quickly and with less effort, thereby improving the overall efficiency of their operations in the tourism industry.

Breadboard

Venture Round in 2023
Breadboard develops software that integrates and streamlines global electronics supply chains. It provides tools for hardware firms to automate purchasing processes, track progress, and communicate effectively with suppliers.

AirOps

Seed Round in 2023
AirOps is a technology company specializing in data analytics platforms. It empowers operators to transform business data into actionable insights, offering interactive enterprise analytics, data discovery tools, and streamlined analysis processes. This enables businesses to generate more revenue from their data.

Videowise

Seed Round in 2023
Videowise is a video review application platform that automates the process of gathering and displaying product video reviews for online retail businesses. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Dover, Delaware, the platform efficiently searches, verifies, syncs, and serves video reviews sourced from various video streaming websites. It offers features such as floating widgets, a theme builder, and real-time analytics, allowing eCommerce companies to track return on investment and analyze customer engagement. By leveraging these capabilities, Videowise aims to enhance customer conversions and overall shopper experience, thereby increasing customer value for online stores.

CultureScience

Pre Seed Round in 2022
CultureScience is a cloud-based platform focused on employee experience management, founded in 2021 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The platform aggregates data from various operational tools, providing businesses with insights into team time, capacity, and client demands. By detecting common causes of burnout, CultureScience aims to enhance workplace culture and improve employee retention. It delivers valuable information through weekly Burnout Reports and user-friendly dashboards, highlighting aspects such as available focus time and after-hours email activity.

Decipad

Seed Round in 2022
Decipad develops low-code interactive documents that facilitate data analysis and decision-making. Its platform uses generative AI to enable users without extensive data expertise to derive insights from data, fostering a two-way conversational approach.

Knapsack

Seed Round in 2022
Knapsack offers a unified platform for managing design and coding decisions across products and brands. This enables faster delivery of improved user experiences. As a remote, venture-backed startup, Knapsack assists design and development teams to halve production time.

Knapsack

Seed Round in 2021
Knapsack offers a unified platform for managing design and coding decisions across products and brands. This enables faster delivery of improved user experiences. As a remote, venture-backed startup, Knapsack assists design and development teams to halve production time.

Kambr

Seed Round in 2021
Kambr Inc. is a company that provides advisory and software solutions specifically designed for the airline industry. Established in 2019 and based in Amsterdam, New York, Kambr focuses on helping airlines optimize their commercial processes to enhance revenue generation. The company's offerings include a modular revenue management system that supports total airline commercial optimization, allowing clients to navigate the complexities of digital transformation. By leveraging automation, insights, and data-driven guidance, Kambr aims to improve productivity and decision-making for airlines. The company also features distinct units for Advisory, Media, and Solutions, positioning itself as a leader in commercial intelligence and demand management within the aviation sector.

MeetingNotes

Seed Round in 2020
Hugo Corporation, founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, specializes in cloud-based connected meeting notes software. Its primary product, the Hugo application, enables teams to collaboratively set meeting agendas, share notes, and organize insights based on participant attendance. The software facilitates the transformation of meeting notes into actionable items and includes integrations with over 20 tools such as chat, CRM, video conferencing, and project management applications. This functionality allows organizations to manage their meetings effectively, ensuring efficiency and transparency in communication and collaboration among team members.

Allma

Seed Round in 2020
Allma develops a collaboration enhancement tool that optimizes workflows, simplifies task management, and improves team communication. Its AI-powered platform summarizes threads, analyzes data, suggests actions, centralizes communication, and offers insights to streamline processes.

HumanFirst

Seed Round in 2019
HumanFirst is a company focused on enhancing patient-centered clinical trials through its advanced precision measures platform, which is recognized as the world's largest AI-powered software-as-a-service solution for improving health outcomes. The platform offers insights and validated evidence data to support biopharmaceutical companies in their drug development processes, enabling them to incorporate digital health technologies, digital biomarkers, and electronic clinical outcome assessments. By providing industry educational tools and facilitating collaboration with research partners, HumanFirst helps biopharma organizations increase research efficiency and accelerate the deployment of innovative treatments. The platform has been utilized by a significant majority of the largest pharmaceutical companies globally, underscoring its role in transforming clinical research and driving the evolution of drug development.

TetraScience

Series A in 2019
Founded in 2014, TetraScience develops hardware and software solutions for monitoring and managing research experiments, with a focus on life sciences. It offers sensors, cameras, switches, adapters, and timers to collect data from various lab tools like syringe pumps and wave generators. The company's platform, Tetra R&D Data Cloud, provides centralized, standardized, and actionable scientific data, serving scientists, engineers, managers, and safety officers in enterprise pharma and biotech organizations.

Kambr

Seed Round in 2019
Kambr Inc. is a company that provides advisory and software solutions specifically designed for the airline industry. Established in 2019 and based in Amsterdam, New York, Kambr focuses on helping airlines optimize their commercial processes to enhance revenue generation. The company's offerings include a modular revenue management system that supports total airline commercial optimization, allowing clients to navigate the complexities of digital transformation. By leveraging automation, insights, and data-driven guidance, Kambr aims to improve productivity and decision-making for airlines. The company also features distinct units for Advisory, Media, and Solutions, positioning itself as a leader in commercial intelligence and demand management within the aviation sector.

Flatfile

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Flatfile is a data onboarding platform that enables developers to validate, map, and import customer data from spreadsheets into software applications. It embeds a JavaScript snippet to add an import button in web apps and provides a secure Concierge workspace for collaboration to manage data ingestion. The platform supports CSV, XLS, and TSV uploads, allows users to configure a target model for data validation, and learns over time to improve accuracy. It is API-first and widely adopted by hundreds of companies, including AstraZeneca, Square, and Sage.

Ethyca

Seed Round in 2019
Ethyca is a software company that develops data privacy and AI governance platforms to help enterprises automate privacy compliance. Its offerings include Ethyca Pro, a cloud-based self-service privacy solution that automates data mapping, data subject rights management and consent across privacy laws such as the CCPA. The platform provides an engineered data privacy infrastructure that enables developers and privacy teams to embed privacy controls into systems. It builds a data map that tracks data locations and flows across an organization, enabling automated processing of key privacy tasks to build consumer trust and meet global regulatory requirements. The company focuses on scalable privacy automation to reduce time, cost and risk for organizations and supports privacy engineering across products and services.

Higharc

Seed Round in 2019
Higharc, Inc. is a technology company based in Durham, North Carolina, founded in 2018. It offers a comprehensive web platform designed for homebuilders and new homebuyers, focusing on three-dimensional home design and customization. The platform allows users to create tailored home designs while managing plans, standards, and options within a single interface. It provides accurate materials lists and generates permit-ready construction documents, streamlining the building process. By enabling builders to design and sell homes in 3D, Higharc aims to enhance the efficiency of design, construction, and sales, ultimately reducing material waste and costly errors. The company's mission is to support builders in creating high-quality homes and communities in a more affordable manner.

Ask Lorem

Seed Round in 2018
Lorem Technologies, Inc., established in 2016 and headquartered in New York, operates an on-demand freelance marketplace called Lorem. This platform connects non-technical business owners with skilled web developers and designers globally, facilitating swift project collaborations within 10 minutes. The company's mission is to empower business owners and promote freelancing as the future of work.

nPlan

Seed Round in 2018
Founded in London in 2017, nPlan specializes in AI-driven construction project management software. Its solution uses machine learning to provide schedule certainty, identify risks, suggest optimal execution paths, and offer statistical risk attribution for individual activities.

Minim

Seed Round in 2018
Founded in 1977 as a networking company, Minim delivers intelligent software to protect and improve WiFi connections. Its cloud platform powers intuitive apps and routers, helping customers manage their connected experience and privacy.

Anjuna

Seed Round in 2018
Anjuna is a company that specializes in cloud security, providing a platform designed to deliver hardware-grade protection for sensitive data, applications, and workloads. The company's innovative technology leverages secure computing capabilities to ensure that enterprises can safely operate their most critical workloads in the public cloud. By utilizing end-to-end encryption and secure enclaves, Anjuna protects against insider threats and malicious code, offering a more robust alternative to traditional perimeter security solutions. This approach allows businesses to confidently take advantage of cloud resources while maintaining the highest levels of data security.

JuliaHub

Seed Round in 2017
JuliaHub is a platform empowering scientists, engineers, and innovators with high-performance computing capabilities. It enables discovery, building, and sharing of packages, along with effortless parallel computing.

Ask Lorem

Seed Round in 2017
Lorem Technologies, Inc., established in 2016 and headquartered in New York, operates an on-demand freelance marketplace called Lorem. This platform connects non-technical business owners with skilled web developers and designers globally, facilitating swift project collaborations within 10 minutes. The company's mission is to empower business owners and promote freelancing as the future of work.

FloydHub

Seed Round in 2017
FloydHub is a Platform-as-a-Service designed for training and deploying deep learning models in the cloud. The platform simplifies the process of initiating machine learning projects, allowing users to start within 30 seconds. FloydHub provides the necessary infrastructure, enabling teams to focus on their core challenges rather than technical setup. It offers customizable CPU and GPU environments tailored for deep learning, along with features that automatically save projects and databases through cloud interactions. The platform includes a web dashboard that facilitates tracking, monitoring, editing, and sharing project progress, which enhances collaboration among team members and boosts productivity through effective performance reviews and project planning.

TravelJoy

Seed Round in 2017
TravelJoy is a travel management platform designed to enhance the trip planning experience for travel agents and their clients. It provides a suite of tools that streamline the booking process, allowing travel professionals to manage their businesses more efficiently. The platform offers modern, digital solutions that simplify invoicing and secure payments, enabling users to save time and stay organized. By focusing on these essential services, TravelJoy aims to help travel agents attract ideal clients more quickly and with less effort, thereby improving the overall efficiency of their operations in the tourism industry.

GetHuman

Venture Round in 2016
GetHuman is an online consumer service platform that provides tools and information to help people resolve customer service issues, including step-by-step guides, access to company contact details, and options to review and compare service providers. Users can skip long holds, call from a browser, and receive guidance for common problems, while a team of experts can coordinate with customer care representatives and follow up on users' behalf to save time, money, and frustration. Founded in 2005 and based in Boston, GetHuman concentrates on simplifying the process of reaching the right support and obtaining quicker resolutions for consumer inquiries.

Formlabs

Series B in 2016
Formlabs designs and manufactures professional 3D printing systems and materials for engineers, designers, educators, and manufacturers. The company offers high-resolution stereolithography printers such as Form 3, Form 3B, and Form 3L, along with post-processing equipment Form Wash and Form Cure, and the SLS-based Fuse 1 printer. It develops in-house high-performance resins and materials used across industries including education, dentistry, healthcare, jewelry, and manufacturing. Its software ecosystem includes PreForm, which prepares models for printing, and Form Cell for automated manufacturing. Formlabs serves customers worldwide and maintains headquarters in Somerville, Massachusetts with international offices. The company focuses on enabling designers and engineers to produce detailed, functional parts and complex geometries, expanding access to professional-grade 3D printing through scalable hardware, materials, and software solutions.

Font Awesome

Seed Round in 2015
Font Awesome, founded in 2014 and based in the United States, provides a comprehensive web font and icon toolkit tailored for developers and businesses. The company offers scalable vector icons that can be easily customized in terms of size, color, and effects using CSS. Its platform allows users to build and manage icons and typefaces efficiently in one location, serving them with a simple line of code. With access to a variety of high-quality icon sets and the ability to upload custom icons, Font Awesome helps website creators enhance the visual appeal of their sites, ultimately aiming to attract more viewers.

TetraScience

Seed Round in 2015
Founded in 2014, TetraScience develops hardware and software solutions for monitoring and managing research experiments, with a focus on life sciences. It offers sensors, cameras, switches, adapters, and timers to collect data from various lab tools like syringe pumps and wave generators. The company's platform, Tetra R&D Data Cloud, provides centralized, standardized, and actionable scientific data, serving scientists, engineers, managers, and safety officers in enterprise pharma and biotech organizations.

Experiment Engine

Seed Round in 2014
Experiment Engine, Inc. is a conversion optimization platform based in Austin, Texas, founded in 2014. The company focuses on enabling brands and agencies to effectively manage testing programs, scale experimentation, and measure return on investment through its user-friendly platform. Experiment Engine provides tools for planning, reviewing, and reporting on various testing projects, while also offering access to resources in design, development, copywriting, and quality assurance. Its platform facilitates testing different versions of web pages, allowing users to analyze results, prioritize experiments based on data, and refine conversion strategies. Serving sectors such as e-commerce, publishing, lead generation, and agencies, Experiment Engine aims to enhance the effectiveness of digital marketing efforts through informed decision-making and collaboration. As of 2017, it operates as a subsidiary of Optimizely, Inc.

Twill

Seed Round in 2013
Twill is a developer of a software-enabled healthcare platform focused on enhancing mental and physical wellness. The company offers a web and mobile-based technology that evaluates users' happiness through both subjective and objective assessments. In addition, Twill provides a variety of programs and games designed to promote healthier mindsets. This approach enables individuals, employers, and care delivery systems to effectively address issues such as stress, depression, anxiety, and social isolation, which are often associated with chronic illness. By integrating these tools, Twill aims to support users in achieving improved overall well-being.

Picturelife

Series A in 2012
The Picturelife team is a group of accomplished software engineers and designers that came together to solve a frustrating problem that everyone has: keeping our pictures safe and secure. It takes a fraction of a second to capture a memory that's meant to last forever, but just an instant to lose it to a thief, data corruption, or natural disaster. That’s why we built Picturelife. We’ve been working hard to make Picturelife the service we always wanted. We want our pictures safely backed because we're afraid of losing them. We value our privacy so we built Picturelife to be private and secure by default. And we're always on the go, so we made Picturelife accessible from any computer or device with an Internet connection.

Twill

Venture Round in 2012
Twill is a developer of a software-enabled healthcare platform focused on enhancing mental and physical wellness. The company offers a web and mobile-based technology that evaluates users' happiness through both subjective and objective assessments. In addition, Twill provides a variety of programs and games designed to promote healthier mindsets. This approach enables individuals, employers, and care delivery systems to effectively address issues such as stress, depression, anxiety, and social isolation, which are often associated with chronic illness. By integrating these tools, Twill aims to support users in achieving improved overall well-being.

Infinio

Seed Round in 2012
Infinio Systems Inc. specializes in developing software solutions aimed at enhancing storage performance in virtual environments. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with an additional office in New York, the company addresses a critical challenge faced by data center administrators: the need for improved storage performance rather than merely increasing hardware capacity. Infinio's software-only solution focuses on optimizing network-attached storage (NAS) performance, allowing businesses to improve their operational efficiency and customer experience without the high costs associated with additional storage hardware. The company is backed by prominent venture capital firms, which underscores its potential in the market.

Codecademy

Series A in 2011
Codecademy is an online education platform that teaches coding and digital skills through interactive, project-based courses accessible on web and mobile. It offers tutorials in HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, PHP, APIs, and other technologies, with learners building real projects and receiving feedback from a community of peers. The platform emphasizes a networked, interactive learning experience that enables users worldwide to practice coding in a convivial environment.

Picturelife

Debt Financing in 2011
The Picturelife team is a group of accomplished software engineers and designers that came together to solve a frustrating problem that everyone has: keeping our pictures safe and secure. It takes a fraction of a second to capture a memory that's meant to last forever, but just an instant to lose it to a thief, data corruption, or natural disaster. That’s why we built Picturelife. We’ve been working hard to make Picturelife the service we always wanted. We want our pictures safely backed because we're afraid of losing them. We value our privacy so we built Picturelife to be private and secure by default. And we're always on the go, so we made Picturelife accessible from any computer or device with an Internet connection.

Stack Overflow

Series A in 2010
Stack Overflow is a company that operates an online platform and community for developers to learn, ask, and share programming knowledge. It offers complementary products including Stack Overflow for Teams, a knowledge-management platform for mission-critical information; Stack Overflow for Talent and Jobs, a hiring and employer-branding solution for technology teams; Stack Overflow Advertising for product promotion; and Stack Overflow Enterprise, a private, centralized space for large teams to collaborate and access critical company information. The platform also supports private knowledge sharing and helps developers solve coding problems as well as discover job opportunities, contributing to both individual learning and organizational efficiency.
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