# Founder Friendly Labs

> Founder Friendly Labs is a VC fund backing Software. See 123 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 123
- Last investment: Sep 2022
- Lead investor: 2%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/7797700
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/joinffl
- Website: http://www.joinffl.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joinffl/

Founder Friendly Labs is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Founder Friendly Labs (FFL) is the equity-free startup accelerator for experienced professionals. Startups get access to valuable resources like peer mentoring and 100% discount off the first year of Carta's Build or Grow plan w/ 409A valuations and 83(b) electronic filing. We understand founders are busy, so we offer a low-commitmentexperience.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 43 | 35% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 26 | 21% |
| Machine Learning | 22 | 18% |
| Information Technology | 20 | 16% |
| Analytics | 13 | 11% |

151 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 63 | 51% |
| Funding Round | 41 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 8 | 7% |
| Non-equity Assistance | 4 | 3% |
| Convertible Note | 2 | 2% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 94 | 76% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 3% |
| The Netherlands | 3 | 2% |
| India | 2 | 2% |
| Canada | 2 | 2% |

11 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mendel Chuang | Co-Founder & Executive Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mendel-chuang |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| WECHEER | WECHEER- Cherish every drink momentAn innovation that creates immense shared value for Beverage companies, Bartenders, and Consumers alike. Using image recognition, the Patented Smart Bottle Opener can instantly identify the person, time, location, and brand of any crown-capped bottle while it’s being opened! Unlike any other platform, wecapture the full beverage value chain giving access to a big data platform with real-time market intelligence and direct user engagement. Our innovative technology captures, learns, and up-sells each bottle opened. We have upgraded the concept of Pay Per Click (PPC) to Pay Per Bottle (PPB).”We allow beverage companies to: - Connect directly to our bartenders community - Send targeted promotions to our members and upsell their brands - Access real time market insights based on actual bottles being opened | $600K | Seed | Mar 01, 2023 |  |
| Ourdate | Ourdate provides a personalised date planning service that curates activity recommendations based on couples' interests. |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 09, 2022 |  |
| Propellant.digital | We are a Netherlands based FinTech that is focused on bring together public and private data to power business decisions in a low cost way. Born in 2021, our mission is to organise financial markets information and make it transparent, accessible, affordable and useful to all parties in the ecosystem. Propellant.Digital is headed up by foundersVincent Grandjean, and Allan Horgan, both professionals who have a long history in the financial market technology sector and wanted to leverage their experience to create a solution that was low cost. |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2021 |  |
| Numtra | Numtra is an IT company that delivers machine learning, artificial intelligence & data engineering to optimize business processes for firms. |  | Seed | Dec 01, 2020 |  |
| Caplena | Have you ever spent countless hours tediously sifting through huge piles of customer feedback? Caplena.com uses Augmented Intelligence to drastically reduce the amount of time it takes to analyze large amounts of free text from reviews or responses to open-ended questions.It all began when one of the co- founders, Maurice, won the prestigiousSemEval competition for his Master Thesis. He began to explore ideas in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) field with his colleague Pascal, a Machine Learning Engineer specializing in the field of Natural Language and Computer Vision.They soon realized a gap in the industry when Link and Success Drivers - two Market Research firms - inquired if the same technology could help them with open-ended survey coding. As it turned out, almost all firms that handle customer feedback face the same issue: too many open ends and not enough time to accurately analyze them all.Four months later, Pascal and Maurice had completed the first prototype - and things began to take off quickly. Since its inception in the spring of 2017, Caplena has doubled the number of text responses it processes every six months, with over 50M verbatims processed to date. Today Caplena serves companies in more than 15 countries. From rapidly growing start-ups like Joyn to Fortune 500 companies like eBay & DHL - we have managed to achieve unparalleled customer loyalty. Building on that trust and keeping innovation at the core of everything we do, it is our mission to support any insight team that analyses any kind of open-ended feedback. |  | Seed | Dec 01, 2020 |  |
| Vurbl | Vurbl is a creator-first, free streaming audio platform for all audio types, including user-generated audio, across 40 categories. Vurbl is revolutionizing the way people distribute and listen to audio-centric information across the web. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Sep 21, 2020 |  |
| Catalogs.com | Catalogs.com has been considered the web's catalog shopping authority. Their trends experts have carefully reviewed thousands of catalogs and online stores and have featured only the most respected, distinctive, and trusted ones. From popular favorites to new discoveries, you'll shop and save with exclusive coupon codes! |  | Seed | Aug 01, 2020 |  |
| Tiendas.com | Tiendas.com is applying new technologies to help have users have the complete shopping experience, prices, reviews, information and alerts in an easy and efficient way.Tiendas.com compares prices from marketplaces such as amazon, ebay, top stores and local stores.Users may select products to see all info, reviews, price history and functions toset price alerts.Tiendas.com is currently privately funded and based in Spain. In active search for investors to expand and grow in other spanish speaking countries. |  | Seed | Aug 01, 2020 |  |
| Kurrent | The stream database built for Event Sourcing. |  | Seed | Aug 01, 2020 |  |
| Free Loops | Free Loops is an online platform offering more than 2,400 rights free video loops for your events and diverse media projects.They believe in the creative power of people and they support creatives by offering high quality creative videos for all budgets. |  | Seed | Aug 01, 2020 |  |

10 of 123 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BlockVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blockvc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [K9 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/k9-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Right Side Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/right-side-capital-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Founder Friendly Labs invest in?

Founder Friendly Labs invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 123 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Founder Friendly Labs?

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