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Founders’ Co-op

Founders Andy Sack Chris DeVore

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Total investments 175
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$4M
Portfolio companies 115
Rounds per year 10.94
Lead investments 13
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.34
Exits 33
Key employees 5
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • SaaS
  • Analytics
  • Mobile
  • Internet
Summary

Founders' Co-op appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2008. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Seattle. The company was established in North America in United States.

The current fund was established by Andy Sack, Chris DeVore. We also calculated 5 valuable employees in our database.

The real fund results show that this VC is 11 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The important activity for fund was in 2015. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2017. The typical startup value when the investment from Founders' Co-op is 1-5 millions dollars. Comparing to the other companies, this Founders' Co-op performs on 4 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually. The common 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. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Outreach, Bluecore, Amperity. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Finance, Advertising. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the Founders' Co-op, startups are often financed by Madrona Venture Group, Social Leverage, Maveron. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Techstars Ventures, Social Leverage, Maveron. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by True Ventures, Thomvest Ventures, Techstars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Signify

Compliance
Manufacturing
Software
$2M19 Jul 2024 Seattle, Washington, United States

SDF

$9M26 Jun 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Topicflow

$1M25 Jun 2024 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Goodbill

Billing
Consumer Applications
Medical
$2M26 Mar 2024 Seattle, Washington, United States

Rhythms

$26M07 Dec 2023 Bellevue, Washington, United States

KeySavvy

Automotive
Payments
Sales
$2M06 Nov 2023 -

MDmetrix

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Hospital
Medical
$10M11 Sep 2023 Seattle, Washington, United States

Movley

Manufacturing
Quality Assurance
Service Industry
Small and Medium Businesses
Software
Supply Chain Management
$1M14 Aug 2023 Lewes, Delaware, United States

Source

Architecture
Construction
Database
SaaS
$8M18 Jul 2023 Portland, Oregon, United States

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Total investments 175
Average round size 4M
Rounds per year 10.94
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 13
Follow on index 0.34
Exits 33
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Signify

Compliance
Manufacturing
Software
$2M19 Jul 2024 Seattle, Washington, United States

SDF

$9M26 Jun 2024 Los Angeles, California, United States

Topicflow

$1M25 Jun 2024 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Goodbill

Billing
Consumer Applications
Medical
$2M26 Mar 2024 Seattle, Washington, United States

Rhythms

$26M07 Dec 2023 Bellevue, Washington, United States

KeySavvy

Automotive
Payments
Sales
$2M06 Nov 2023 -

MDmetrix

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Health Care
Hospital
Medical
$10M11 Sep 2023 Seattle, Washington, United States

Movley

Manufacturing
Quality Assurance
Service Industry
Small and Medium Businesses
Software
Supply Chain Management
$1M14 Aug 2023 Lewes, Delaware, United States

Source

Architecture
Construction
Database
SaaS
$8M18 Jul 2023 Portland, Oregon, United States
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