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

Zach Klein

Founder Partner

Eric Paley

General Partner

Brent Willess

Principal

Past deals in Spam Filtering

Smyte

Series A in 2017
Smyte Inc. is a Software-as-a-Service company based in San Francisco, California, specializing in trust and safety solutions for websites and mobile applications. Founded in 2014, Smyte employs a combination of manual heuristics, machine learning, and proprietary reputation data to assist organizations in proactively combating spam, fraud, bots, phishing, harassment, and account takeovers. The company caters to a diverse clientele that includes enterprises, marketplaces, and social networks, processing nearly five billion online actions each month. Smyte's automated labeling system identifies potentially malicious activities by analyzing various signals, allowing risk teams to effectively manage threats. As of June 30, 2018, Smyte operates as a subsidiary of Twitter, Inc.

Smyte

Seed Round in 2015
Smyte Inc. is a Software-as-a-Service company based in San Francisco, California, specializing in trust and safety solutions for websites and mobile applications. Founded in 2014, Smyte employs a combination of manual heuristics, machine learning, and proprietary reputation data to assist organizations in proactively combating spam, fraud, bots, phishing, harassment, and account takeovers. The company caters to a diverse clientele that includes enterprises, marketplaces, and social networks, processing nearly five billion online actions each month. Smyte's automated labeling system identifies potentially malicious activities by analyzing various signals, allowing risk teams to effectively manage threats. As of June 30, 2018, Smyte operates as a subsidiary of Twitter, Inc.

Smyte

Seed Round in 2014
Smyte Inc. is a Software-as-a-Service company based in San Francisco, California, specializing in trust and safety solutions for websites and mobile applications. Founded in 2014, Smyte employs a combination of manual heuristics, machine learning, and proprietary reputation data to assist organizations in proactively combating spam, fraud, bots, phishing, harassment, and account takeovers. The company caters to a diverse clientele that includes enterprises, marketplaces, and social networks, processing nearly five billion online actions each month. Smyte's automated labeling system identifies potentially malicious activities by analyzing various signals, allowing risk teams to effectively manage threats. As of June 30, 2018, Smyte operates as a subsidiary of Twitter, Inc.

Burner

Series A in 2013
Burner, established in 2012 and based in Los Angeles, is a mobile software company specializing in privacy and communication management. It develops the Burner app, which allows users to obtain and manage additional, temporary phone numbers for voice, SMS, and MMS communications. Users can acquire multiple numbers, each functioning as a private line on their iPhone or Android device, and choose to keep or 'burn' (discard) them as needed. The app also offers features like SMS scam filtering and monitoring.
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