Founder Collective
VC Fund
Cambridge, United States
Founder Collective is a VC fund in Cambridge focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Each Founder Collective partner has founded and sold a technology company. The company we wish had existed when we first started out is what we hope to create with Founder Collective. We offer a user guide for managing the risky commodity known as venture capital. The company believes that in order to advance their firms and maintain control,entrepreneurs should aim to raise the least amount of money possible.Founder Collective was established on May 22, 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Total investments:
- 454
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 6%
- Fund size:
- $95M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Founder Collective invests in
Stages Founder Collective invests in
Countries Founder Collective invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 13 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$6.5M
- Series A
- $1.5M–$16M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 91 (20%)
- Artificial Intelligence 39 (9%)
- Internet 38 (8%)
- E-Commerce 33 (7%)
- SaaS 31 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 216 (48%)
- Series A 107 (24%)
- Funding Round 19 (4%)
- Series B 18 (4%)
- Pre-Seed 17 (4%)
Country
- United States 272 (60%)
- United Kingdom 12 (3%)
- Canada 6 (1%)
- India 4 (1%)
- Israel 4 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
James Tamplin
Founder Partner
|
Founder Partner | Total investments: 17 | Find email | |
Zach Klein
Founder and Partner
|
Founder and Partner | Total investments: 7 | Find email | |
Amanda Herson
Seed Investor
|
Seed Investor | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
Andy Palmer
Founder and Partner
|
Founder and Partner | Total investments: 25 | Find email | |
Dan Sommer
Founder Partner
|
Founder Partner | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
| See all 13 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personalized prenatal supplements and early screening rapid tests to improve access to care and accelerate time to care. Advocating for proactive family planning and reproductive health education. | $13M / Series A / Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| Verascient is the knowledge layer that sits underneath a company's AI tools. Businesses accumulate knowledge scattered across inboxes, meetings, documents, CRMs, and people's heads; Verascient pulls all of it into a single living knowledge graph, keeps it current automatically, and makes it available to any AI agent the team uses—Claude,Codex, or their own internal agents. | $1.2M / Pre-Seed / Aug 24, 2026 | ||
| Reservoir provides smart heat pump water heaters with connected energy management and thermal storage. | $8.1M / Seed / Aug 12, 2026 | ||
| Modern life insurance payouts | $2.4M / Pre-Seed / May 29, 2026 | ||
| Windmill is an information technology company that provides a tools for reviews, feedback, goal tracking and manage people, performance. | $12M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 28, 2026 | ||
| Rebar is a construction technology company that develops AI-powered estimating software for HVAC equipment suppliers and representative firms. Its platform helps teams automate HVAC takeoffs, the process of reviewing building plans, to identify and count equipment needed for a project. The company’s software uses artificial intelligence to analyzeconstruction drawings and automatically tag and quantify HVAC components such as dampers, diffusers, and other equipment. This reduces the manual work involved in estimating and enables teams to generate project estimates much faster.In addition to automated takeoffs, the platform provides tools for tracking estimating performance, analyzing market specifications, and monitoring bidding activity to help HVAC suppliers make more informed sales and product decisions. It focuses on bringing AI-driven automation to the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) sector by streamlining complex estimation workflows for HVAC businesses. | $14M / Series A / Mar 10, 2026 | ||
| Shellworks is a biomaterials company that develops and manufactures a bio-based material that offers a sustainable alternative to conventional plastics. The company’s technology converts natural raw materials into polymers that can be used in packaging, consumer goods, and other applications where traditional plastics are commonly employed. Vivomeris engineered to provide similar functional properties as conventional plastics while offering improved environmental performance through biodegradability or compostability. Shellworks focuses on integrating its materials into manufacturing processes, collaborating with companies seeking to reduce plastic waste and transition to renewable, circular solutions. Through its research, development, and production of bio-based polymers, the company aims to enable practical, eco-friendly material alternatives across multiple industries. | $15M / Series A / Mar 04, 2026 | ||
| tofu is an online marketplace for founders, hiring managers, and talent team leaders to find talent. | $3.6M / Seed / Dec 16, 2025 | ||
| Radial provides new medical treatments for mental conditions including treatments like neuromodulation and rapid acting medications. | $50M / Series A / Dec 09, 2025 | ||
| Ezeebit is a payment solutions provider that enables African merchants to accept cryptocurrency payments both in-store and online. The platform processes transactions quickly and automatically converts the cryptocurrency into stablecoins to eliminate volatility risk. Funds are then settled into the merchant's local currency account, typicallySouth African Rand (ZAR), on the next business day. The company offers multi-currency support for popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum and maintains compliance with financial regulatory bodies. | $2.1M / Seed / Nov 06, 2025 | ||
| See all 454 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Founder Collective invest in?
Founder Collective invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 454 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Founder Collective's check size?
Founder Collective typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$6.5M at Seed and $1.5M–$16M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Founder Collective participates in.
How do I contact Founder Collective?
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Who are the partners at Founder Collective?
The team at Founder Collective includes James Tamplin (Founder Partner), Zach Klein (Founder and Partner) and Amanda Herson (Seed Investor), among 13 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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