Founders' Co-op
VC Fund
Seattle, United States
Founders' Co-op is a seed-stage venture fund built by founders, for founders. Based in Seattle, they help the strongest entrepreneurs in the Pacific Northwest build companies that the best growth investors in the world choose to back. As the largest and longest-running seed-stage specialist fund in the region, they are a trusted partner toearly-stage founders and a trusted point of access to Pacific Northwest dealflow for out-of-region investors at the seed stage and beyond.
- Total investments:
- 177
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 18%
- Fund size:
- $50M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Founders' Co-op invests in
Stages Founders' Co-op invests in
Countries Founders' Co-op invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $800k–$10M
- Series A
- $1.4M–$13M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 37 (21%)
- SaaS 19 (11%)
- Information Technology 18 (10%)
- Analytics 16 (9%)
- Internet 14 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 70 (40%)
- Series A 34 (19%)
- Funding Round 15 (8%)
- Series B 9 (5%)
- Pre-Seed 8 (5%)
Country
- United States 102 (58%)
- Canada 4 (2%)
- Israel 1 (1%)
- United Kingdom 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Aviel Ginzburg
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 33 | Find email | |
Rudy Gadre
General Partner, Fund III
|
General Partner, Fund III | Total investments: 39 | Find email | |
Andy Sack
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 85 | Find email | |
Chris DeVore
Founding Managing Partner
|
Founding Managing Partner | Total investments: 91 | Find email | |
Chris DeVore
Founding Managing Partner
|
Founding Managing Partner | Total investments: 62 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| logcat.ai is an AI-native diagnostics and systems engineering platform built for OEMs, ODMs, chipmakers, and device engineering teams working across smartphones, connected vehicles, robotics, telecom equipment, and embedded hardware. The company’s proprietary Delta investigation engine deploys autonomous AI agents capable of parsing deep OSsignals—including kernel dumps, modem logs, bug reports, and dmesg files—to accurately identify root causes of system crashes or device regressions in minutes. | $2.6M / Pre-Seed / Jul 17, 2026 | ||
| Venice provides private, uncensored AI chat and image generation, with API and token-based access for developers and users. | $65M / Series A / Jul 01, 2026 | ||
| StitcherAI's AI-powered FinOps data platform to expedite your FinOps journey. | $3M / Pre-Seed / May 19, 2026 | ||
| SageOx develops context infrastructure that keeps humans and AI agents aligned around shared decisions and knowledge. The platform captures discussions, coding sessions, and assistant chats, then converts them into structured, searchable team memory. SageOx injects this context into AI coding agents and assistants at the start of each session sothey can follow team conventions and prior decisions. Its Ox Dot device records in‑room conversations, while the Ox CLI connects repositories and agent workflows to shared context. Ox MCP links ChatGPT, Claude, and other MCP-compatible assistants to the same memory, and Ox Console gives teams a unified view across decisions, sessions, and recordings. | $15M / Seed / May 06, 2026 | ||
| Certiv provides a runtime assurance platform that governs AI agents running on employee endpoints. The platform discovers sanctioned and shadow agents, captures reasoning chains, tool calls, and data access, and gives teams a unified view of agent behavior. It enforces deterministic, semantic, and intent-based policies before actions execute toblock exfiltration, privilege abuse, and risky workflows. Certiv works across IDE copilots, browser agents, custom frameworks, and tools like Claude Code and OpenClaw. It serves IT, security, and engineering teams that need productivity from agents while maintaining governance and control. | $4.2M / Pre-Seed / Mar 16, 2026 | ||
| Arkero is an AI-native operations platform tailored for professional sports businesses, such as teams in MLS, NWSL, and the English Football League. It integrates seamlessly with existing tools like ticketing systems, CRM, data warehouses, Slack, and email to automate workflows, provide real-time insights, and drive decisions. | $6M / Pre-Seed / Jan 29, 2026 | ||
| Logic is an AI-powered decision automation platform that enables business teams to automate recurring processes without coding. Founded in 2024 by Steve Krenzel and Jess Garms, Logic helps companies scale decision-making and manual reviews through plain English descriptions that deploy as production-ready automations. | $4.3M / Seed / Oct 20, 2025 | ||
| Aarden AI is an AI platform that helps landowners research and navigate deals with developers to build data centers and others. | $4M / Seed / Oct 09, 2025 | ||
| Row Zero provides a self-serve big data analytics platform. Users can connect directly to data sources, analyze and model data in a spreadsheet interface, build dashboards, and share insights across teams. The platform aims to simplify data analysis and enable users to perform complex analytics without extensive technical knowledge. Row Zerosupports various integrations and offers features for data enablement and last-mile analytics. | $10M / Seed / May 06, 2025 | ||
| Ravenna offers an AI-driven internal help desk platform designed for IT and operations teams. The platform integrates seamlessly with Slack, enabling users to convert any Slack message, including direct messages, into support tickets. Ravenna automates service requests, streamlines workflows, and provides AI-powered knowledge generation to enhanceinternal support processes. It also offers analytics to help teams measure and improve their performance over time. | $15M / Seed / Apr 24, 2025 | ||
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FAQ
What does Founders' Co-op invest in?
Founders' Co-op invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 177 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 Founders' Co-op's check size?
Founders' Co-op typically joins rounds of $800k–$10M at Seed and $1.4M–$13M 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 Founders' Co-op participates in.
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Who are the partners at Founders' Co-op?
The team at Founders' Co-op includes Aviel Ginzburg (General Partner), Rudy Gadre (General Partner, Fund III) and Andy Sack (Venture Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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