Founder Collective

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Cambridge, United States

Total investments

489

Average round size

4M

Portfolio companies

332

Rounds per year

32.60

Lead investments

23

Follow on index

0.32

Exits

111

Stages of investment
Seed
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareAdvertising

Summary

Founder Collective appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2009. The main department of described VC is located in the Cambridge. The venture was found in North America in United States.

This organization was formed by Andy Palmer, Bill Trenchard, Caterina Fake, Chris Dixon, David Frankel, Eric Paley, Jack Groetzinger, James Tamplin, Micah Rosenbloom, Noah Jessop, Parul Singh, Raj De Datta, Zach Klein. We also calculated 8 valuable employees in our database.

The fund is constantly included in 25-48 deals per year. The real fund results show that this VC is 14 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. This Founder Collective works on 6 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The average startup value when the investment from Founder Collective is 10-50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2010. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Coupang, Buzzfeed, Desktop Metal. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Enterprise Software, Advertising.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 partakers. Despite the Founder Collective, startups are often financed by BoxGroup, Paul Sethi, NYC Seed. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are NYC Seed, Lowercase Capital, Accomplice. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Index Ventures, Foundry Group, Founders Fund.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistMartech/AdtechB2B/EnterpriseConsumer/RetailEcommerce Show 2 more
Stage focus
Seed
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
400K — 2M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 85000000
Fund raised date
2020-04-20

Analytics

Total investments
489
Lead investments
23
Exits
111
Rounds per year
32.60
Follow on index
0.32
Investments by industry
  • Software (132)
  • Internet (77)
  • E-Commerce (62)
  • Mobile (50)
  • SaaS (50)
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Investments by region
  • United States (445)
  • United Kingdom (10)
  • Israel (10)
  • Nigeria (4)
  • Germany (2)
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Peak activity year
2010
Number of Unicorns
13
Number of Decacorns
15
Number of Minotaurs
4

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
9
Avg. valuation at time of investment
416M
Group Appearance index
0.91
Avg. company exit year
6
Avg. multiplicator
3.16
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Breadboard 12 Jun 2023 Seed 4M United States, New York, New York
GetHenry 19 Jul 2023 Transportation, Software, Electric Vehicle Early Stage Venture 12M Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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