# Zach Klein

> Zach Klein is a seed investor at Founder Collective (San Francisco) backing Social Media and Art. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Founder Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founder-collective)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jul 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/zachklein
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/zachklein
- Website: http://zachklein.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/zach

Zach Klein is a seed investor at Founder Collective in San Francisco focused on Social Media and Art. Zach Klein is the Founder and Partner of Founder Collective. He attended Wake Forest University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Social Media | 2 | 29% |
| Art | 1 | 14% |
| Apps | 1 | 14% |
| Solar | 1 | 14% |
| Video | 1 | 14% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 29% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 29% |
| Series A | 2 | 29% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 6 | 86% |
| Australia | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MagicBrief | MagicBrief is the creator of a performance marketing tool for creating and editing video storyboards. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Jul 07, 2023 |  |
| Jupe | Jupe is a hospitality product technology startup producing the next evolution of shelter, designed for discovery. We manufacture base camps for the bold, created to escape the ordinary, offering shelter in extraordinary places (from music festivals to farms to forest to natural disaster areas for relief housing). Jupe is a flat-packed dwelling unitinspired by the stars, designed for new frontiers beyond the city that can be set up in just two hours. These minimalist, modular units remove limitations and redefine access to natural habitats and off-grid living. We operate a production facility in Southern California and support a growing list of customers looking to invigorate their hospitality offerings across the globe. Dimmable LED track lighting, a continuous double-battery system, bedside USB charge stations, and outlets integrated throughout are all features of Jupe shelters. | $9.5M | Seed | Dec 02, 2021 |  |
| Hellosaurus | Hellosaurus is an e-learning platform that offers creative programs, fun activities, and video classes for kids. It offers an interactive video platform for children and specializes in the fields of online portals and the internet. | $3.5M | Seed | Nov 23, 2020 |  |
| Primer | Primer is making transformative home-improvement projects accessible to everyone by reimagining the hardware store for the mobile generation. The company uses augmented reality (AR) tools to help people plan inspiring projects from home and order custom kits with everything they’ll need to get it done.Founded in 2018 by Russ Maschmeyer and AdamDebreczeni, Primer is headquartered in San Francisco, California. |  | Pre-Seed | Mar 01, 2019 |  |
| Kickstarter | Kickstarter is an online crowdfunding platform and community that enables artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, and other creators to raise funds for various community projects focused on movies, music, art, theater, games, comics, technology, fashion, food, design, and photography. Individuals who back these projects are offered tangiblerewards and one-of-a-kind experiences in exchange for their pledges. Kickstarter applies a 5% fee on the total amount of the funds raised and their payments processor applies an additional 3–5% fee. | $10M |  | Mar 17, 2011 |  |
| Hot Potato | Hot Potato connects friends and fans around live events. We're building tools for real-time social collaboration amongst groups who share an interest in any event or experience as it's happening. Whether checking in, recording your perspective, or just enjoying others contributions, it's more fun to participate in events withHot Potato. | $1.4M | Series A | Nov 25, 2009 |  |
| 20x200 | 20x200 is a NYC-based e-commerce site that transforms design-minded consumers into art collectors. The site features a curated selection of affordable, limited-edition, exhibition-quality prints, which are delivered with artist-signed certificates of authenticity. Working directly with hundreds of artists—emerging, established and legendary—theyrelease new, exclusive editions each week at prices ranging from $24 to $10,000. | $800K | Series A | Oct 01, 2009 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Betaworks](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/betaworks) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Initialized Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/initialized-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Archangel Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/archangel-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [1745 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bertelsmann-digital-media-investments) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blackbird Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackbird-ventures-australia) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Founder Collective

VC Fund · Cambridge, United States

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.

5 contacts available at Founder Collective.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| James Tamplin | Founder Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-tamplin |
| Zach Klein | Founder and Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zach-klein |
| Amanda Herson | Seed Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amanda-herson |
| Andy Palmer | Founder and Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-palmer-2 |
| Dan Sommer | Founder Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dan-sommer |

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## FAQ

### What does Zach Klein invest in?

Zach Klein invests primarily in Social Media, Art and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Zach Klein last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Zach Klein closed in Jul 2023. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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