Founder Collective

Here’s What We Believe

Founder Collective is a partner from idea to IPO

The partners at Founder Collective have all built and sold technology companies Our goal is to make Founder Collective the firm we wish had existed when we were starting out Venture capital is a dangerous commodity – we provide an instruction manual

Great startups practice efficient entrepreneurship

We believe entrepreneurs should try to raise as little money as possible to accelerate their businesses, while preserving ownership Startups don’t have to raise billions to be worth billions—a point proven by The Trade Desk which raised just $22 5M in VC before earning a billion dollar IPO

The future belongs to the weird & wonderful

Founder Collective is deliberately anti-thematic We don’t have a thesis, but when Embark showed us the future of doggy DNA, we couldn’t resist Visionary founders have shown us that the weird use cases of today can become the hot themes of tomorrow

Organic venture capital is rare – and valuable

We invest for the seed-stage which means when it comes time to raising the next round we are fully-aligned with the founding team We have structured the firm to be as aligned with the entrepreneur's financial interests as possible – at our short-term expense We’re founders first, financiers second

We’re our own biggest investors

Our mission is to be the most aligned fund for founders at the seed stage Everyone on the investment team has started a company and understand the ups and downs of entrepreneurship

Announcing Founder Collective IV

Founder Collective barrels forward, closing its fourth and newest fund with $85 million

2020 Forbes Midas List: FC Managing Partner Eric Paley Ranked #9