Founders, Inc.
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Founders, Inc. is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. At Founders, Inc. we're quietly building the next gen. of emerging tech companies.We start companies from scratch through our venture Studio: - thirdweb ($30M raised) - buildspace ($10M raised) - Zeet ($4M raised) - Scenario ($6M raised) And we bet on early-stage builders - sometimes even before they're ready to start a company(past investments include Lexica, Levels.fyi, and more).Are you a prolific builder with an affinity for emerging tech? We'll be your first check.
- Total investments:
- 108
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 11%
- Fund size:
- $1.1M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Founders, Inc. invests in
Stages Founders, Inc. invests in
Countries Founders, Inc. invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 36 (33%)
- Artificial Intelligence 25 (23%)
- Information Technology 14 (13%)
- Machine Learning 9 (8%)
- Apps 7 (6%)
Stage
- Seed 60 (56%)
- Pre-Seed 27 (25%)
- Angel 4 (4%)
- Series A 3 (3%)
- Funding Round 2 (2%)
Country
- United States 65 (60%)
- Canada 5 (5%)
- United Kingdom 4 (4%)
- India 1 (1%)
- France 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Furqan Rydhan
Founder and General Partner
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Founder and General Partner | Total investments: 18 | Find email | |
Hubert Thieblot
General Partner
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General Partner | Total investments: 17 | Find email | |
|
Joher Khan
COO
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COO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Omar Waseem
VP of Marketing
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VP of Marketing | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monid is an all-in-one tool registry that connects AI agents to over 1,700 tools and APIs through a single integration. | $2.1M / Pre-Seed / Sep 01, 2026 | ||
| Sume provides agent-native video generation APIs and tools for creating avatar-based and UGC-style videos. The company offers Sume Avatar 1.0, a multi-model orchestration system that behaves like a single avatar endpoint for generating talking-head and product-focused clips. Developers use the Sume Developer API and CLI to create reusable avatars,submit structured video generation jobs, track status, and retrieve production-ready media. The platform supports workflows where agents or applications coordinate creative inputs such as avatars, scripts, and product images. Sume for Brands provides an AI creative application that turns product URLs, product assets, and creative direction into ad-ready UGC-style videos. Its services are used for advertising, branded content, and other video-based communication scenarios. | Pre-Seed / Aug 25, 2026 | ||
| Landing Page Builder for Marketing Teams. Build hyper-personalized pages, tailored to audience segments or keywords with our drag-and-drop website builder. | $1M / Pre-Seed / Aug 19, 2026 | ||
| Pally is an AI Agent for your network. | $3.5M / Seed / Aug 06, 2026 | ||
| Parse offers an AI-powered web scraping platform that transforms any website into a structured API for data extraction. | Pre-Seed / Dec 03, 2025 | ||
| Inference is a distributed GPU cluster for LLM inference based on Solana, providing a fast, scalable, and token-based API for models such as DeepSeek V3 and Llama 3.3. | $11.8M / Seed / Oct 14, 2025 | ||
| Bondu combines a soft physical toy with an AI-driven conversational system that responds to spoken questions and engages in dialogue. The platform enables children to practice speaking in multiple languages while receiving real-time replies tailored to their interactions. Bondu also incorporates role-play features, allowing the toy to participatein imaginative scenarios with sound effects and context-based responses. Through its connected app, parents can set reminders and routines that the toy reinforces during daily activities. | $5.3M / Seed / Oct 10, 2025 | ||
| We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app. | $20M / Seed / Sep 01, 2025 | ||
| AI-powered aviation safety platform | Pre-Seed / Jul 15, 2025 | ||
| Helios develops an AI-powered platform to assist government employees with policy tracking and stakeholder management. Its AI-powered platform, Proxi, continuously monitors legislation, regulations, and public sector signals to flag the developments that matter most. It maps the policy landscape, tracks key stakeholders and influence networks, andgenerates polished advocacy materials in seconds. | $4M / Seed / Jul 11, 2025 | ||
| See all 108 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Founders, Inc. invest in?
Founders, Inc. invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 108 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 Founders, Inc.?
The team at Founders, Inc. includes Furqan Rydhan (Founder and General Partner), Hubert Thieblot (General Partner) and Joher Khan (COO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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