Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital firm built by entrepreneurs. Our mission is to be the most aligned fund for founders at the seed stage. This informs everything we do. We keep our fund size small - approximately $280M over four funds. The GPs are the biggest LPs in the fund - we’re principals, not agents. We’re not lifecycle investors - we invest at the beginning and align our interests by diluting alongside founders over time. Everyone on the investment team has founded a startup or massively scaled one. All these choices align our interests with the founders and make Founder Collective a unique partner for entrepreneurs.
We also believe that venture capital should come with a warning label and that themes are poor predictors of startup success. These ideas run counter to a lot of VC orthodoxy, but it has worked well for us so far. Over the last dozen years, we’ve backed nearly 25 $1B+ startups.