Founder Collective

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.

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.

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.