Founder Collective

Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital fund, built by a collection of successful entrepreneurs, providing the first professional round of capital to promising entrepreneurs with compelling business concepts. Founder Collective is focused on helping the next generation of great entrepreneurs build important and lasting businesses. Founder Collective focuses on technology-driven companies across a broad range of industries. Despite having backed 20+ billion-dollar startups, we intentionally keep our fund sizes below $100M to stay aligned with our founders. Massive funds need massive exits to move the needle, which incentivizes a "billions or bust" mentality—big VCs insist on $1B+ exits, even if it means many incredible startups burn out trying. Our hope is that every startup we back will become a public company, but our model doesn’t require it. As seed investors, we dilute alongside our founders over time, so we have the same incentives to minimize dilution while maximizing value. We sit on the same side of the table round after round, and we can be enthusiastic supporters of exits of all sizes. You're not a lottery ticket. We don't invest to buy ourselves optionality for a later round. We invest in your company because we think you're going to build something important.