aid: founder-collective
name: Founder Collective
description: 'Founder Collective is a seed and pre-seed stage venture capital firm that
  describes itself as stage-focused, sector agnostic, and proudly anti-thematic. Founded
  more than fifteen years ago and operating from Cambridge, MA (Harvard Square) and New
  York, NY (SoHo), the firm positions itself as founder-aligned, backing capital-efficient
  companies from idea through IPO. General partners include Micah Rosenbloom, David Frankel,
  and Amanda Herson, with Eric Paley as partner emeritus. Notable portfolio companies
  include Uber, SeatGeek, WHOOP, The Trade Desk, Airtable, Cruise, Coupang, Verkada, Shield
  AI, and Suno. Added to the API Evangelist network via the venture-capital portfolio graph.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/founder-collective/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- foundry-group
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-sector: venture-capital
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://foundercollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/fc_favicon-300x300.png
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Venture Capital
- Seed Stage
- Pre-Seed
- Startups
- Investment
- Sector Agnostic
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/founder-collective-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://foundercollective.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://foundercollective.com/blog/
- type: About
  url: https://foundercollective.com/ethos/
- type: Portfolio
  url: https://foundercollective.com/portfolio/
- type: Team
  url: https://foundercollective.com/team/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/founder-collective
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/fcollective
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence