Founder Collective is deliberately anti-thematic. Visionary founders have shown us that the weird use cases of today can become the hot themes of tomorrow.
BuzzFeed is the leading independent digital media and tech company delivering news and entertainment content to a global audience. BuzzFeed publishes news stories, investigations, lists and videos about identity and experience, quizzes, recipes, and cartoons across our site and mobile apps, Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, Twitter, Pinterest and more. We use proprietary technology and modern data metrics to continuously test, learn, and optimize. Our workflow and products are constantly evolving to better serve our audience.
Jonah Peretti
NYSE: BZFD
Coupang is one of the largest and fastest growing e-commerce platforms on the planet. Their vision is to create a world in which customers ask “How did I ever live without Coupang?” Based in South Korea and powered by world-class technology and operations, they have set out to transform the end-to-end Customer experience -- from revolutionizing last-mile delivery to rethinking how customers search and discover on a truly mobile-first platform. Coupang has been named one of the “50 Smartest Companies in the World” by MIT Technology Review and “30 Global Game Changers” by Forbes.
Coupang is a global company with offices in Beijing, Los Angeles, Seattle, Seoul, Shanghai, and Silicon Valley.
Bom Kim
NYSE: CPNG
Omnichannel buying capabilities and industry-leading tech.
The Trade Desk is a buy-side platform providing access to all RTB inventory for display, television, video, social, mobile, and more. Media buyers using our products can run campaigns in every online media channel and report on how each channel combines to influence their customer.
Buyers on The Trade Desk utilize a fully self-serve platform, with industry-best training and support. Tech-forward agencies, aggregators, and platforms can enhance their proprietary offerings with The Trade Desk’s leading APIs.
Jeff Green | Dave Pickles
NASDAQ: TTD
Stack Exchange is a network of 150+ Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the preeminent site for programmers to find, ask, and answer questions about software development. Founded in 2008 by Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood, the company was built on the premise that serving the developer community at large would lead to a better, smarter Internet. Since then, the Stack Exchange network has grown into a top-50 online destination, with Stack Overflow alone serving more than 40 million professional and novice programmers every month.
Joel Spolsky | Jeff Atwood
Acquired by Prosus
Optimizely is the world’s leading experimentation platform, enabling businesses to deliver continuous experimentation and personalization across websites, mobile apps and connected devices. Optimizely enables businesses to experiment deeply into their technology stack and broadly across the entire customer experience.
Pete Koomen | Dan Siroker
Acquired by Episerver
IBM Blue Box Local offers a turnkey, private-cloud-as-a-service (PCaaS) solution, delivered to your in-house or colocation data center in a streamlined process so you can quickly leverage the service. Powered by OpenStack, the industry-leading open source cloud platform, Blue Box Cloud Local delivers a fully-managed OpenStack PCaaS solution that maintains the highest levels of performance, security, and compliance.
Adam Ely | Caleb Sima
Acquired by IBM
Kaggle is the world's largest community of data scientists. They compete with each other to solve complex data science problems, and the top competitors are invited to work on the most interesting and sensitive business problems from some of the world's biggest companies through Masters competitions.
Anthony Goldbloom | Ben Hamner
Acquired by Alphabet
Hivemapper is a mapping and navigation tool for drone fliers to plan better, explore further, and fly safer. They are mapping the entire earth for drone fliers and making the information easily accessible for all to use and contribute to across the web, mobile, and drones.
Ben Wong | Ariel Seidman
Current
BookBub is a free service that helps millions of readers discover great deals on acclaimed ebooks while providing publishers and authors with a way to drive sales and find new fans. Members receive a personalized daily email alerting them to the best free and deeply discounted titles matching their interests as selected by the BookBub editorial team. BookBub works with all major ebook retailers and devices, and is the industry's leading ebook promotion service.
Nicholas Ciarelli | Josh Schanker
Active
BillGuard is a personal finance security and productivity company. Its mobile and website application scans credit card and debit card transactions, alerting users to possible scams, billing errors, fraudulent charges and hidden fees.
Yaron Samid | Amir Orad | Raphael Ouzan
Acquired by Prosper
Solutions from Socure easily integrate into existing workflows to verify the authenticity of a new user, verify an existing user for fraud, or to evaluate risk levels in a transaction. Its RESTful APIs are delivered via a secure and scalable cloud-based software infrastructure, to predict fraud and validate identities from over 180 countries in real-time.
Johnny Ayers | Sunil Madhu
Active
Sense360 develops a toolkit that is sold to app developers to increase engagement with their users. Sense360 creates relevant, personalized, and situationally-aware notifications using location, place, activity, context, and other phone sensory data.
Kamil Mroczek | Eli Portnoy
Acquired by Medallia
Take simple blocks and fill them with photos, videos, text, sound—even snippets of code, if you want. Use them to create, well, whatever you want or need. Art, stories, interactive experiences, radical video collages, immersive soundscapes, musical instruments, even games. Or go the practical route: make a portfolio, invitations, how-to guides, recipes, or, heck, a business card.
Joseph Cohen
Active
Embark provides the industry leading dog DNA test that tells owners what breeds make up their pets, how to prevent future possible health problems, and what features and traits your pet might have. Embark aims to end preventable disease in pets and improve the lives of pets and their families through genomics.
Ryan Boyko | Adam Boyko
Active
TravelJoy is a next generation client services platform for Travel Agents. While providing clients a digital experience and wowing them with beautiful itineraries, TravelJoy helps agents save time by cutting out repetitive and mundane tasks and unifying communication and research.
Dayo Esho | Chris Kline
Active
Adhawk uses an API which aggregates data from the most popular advertising platforms to offer frictionless optimization and cross-platform reporting to it's users via a single iOS and Web dashboard. Based on user feedback, changes are then made programmatically across the input platforms.
Todd Saunders | Dan Pratt
Active
The perfect gift, every time. Alyce chooses personalized gifts for prospects, customers, and employees & tells you when to send them to drive ROI. Alyce handles all ordering, shipping, and support and your recipient has the option to accept, exchange or donate their gift.
Greg Segall
Active
Minim provides a home network security, management and monitoring system that enables home network experts to offer a new level of support and service to their customers. Minim’s home network management products help experts offer a service that builds trust, credibility and accountability with their customers.
Jeremy Hitchcock, David Aronoff, and Alec Rooney
Current
Julia is a high-level dynamic programming language designed to address the requirements of high-performance numerical and scientific computing. Julia Computing, Inc., founded by the founders of the Julia language, builds products for users of Julia and provides related professional services.
Jeff Bezanson | Alan Edelman | Keno Fischer | Stefan Karpinski | Viral Shah | Deepak Vinchi
Active
BuzzFeed is the leading independent digital media and tech company delivering news and entertainment content to a global audience. BuzzFeed publishes news stories, investigations, lists and videos about identity and experience, quizzes, recipes, and cartoons across our site and mobile apps, Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, Twitter, Pinterest and more. We use proprietary technology and modern data metrics to continuously test, learn, and optimize. Our workflow and products are constantly evolving to better serve our audience.
Jonah Peretti
NYSE: BZFD
Coupang is one of the largest and fastest growing e-commerce platforms on the planet. Their vision is to create a world in which customers ask “How did I ever live without Coupang?” Based in South Korea and powered by world-class technology and operations, they have set out to transform the end-to-end Customer experience -- from revolutionizing last-mile delivery to rethinking how customers search and discover on a truly mobile-first platform. Coupang has been named one of the “50 Smartest Companies in the World” by MIT Technology Review and “30 Global Game Changers” by Forbes.
Coupang is a global company with offices in Beijing, Los Angeles, Seattle, Seoul, Shanghai, and Silicon Valley.
Bom Kim
NYSE: CPNG
Omnichannel buying capabilities and industry-leading tech.
The Trade Desk is a buy-side platform providing access to all RTB inventory for display, television, video, social, mobile, and more. Media buyers using our products can run campaigns in every online media channel and report on how each channel combines to influence their customer.
Buyers on The Trade Desk utilize a fully self-serve platform, with industry-best training and support. Tech-forward agencies, aggregators, and platforms can enhance their proprietary offerings with The Trade Desk’s leading APIs.
Jeff Green | Dave Pickles
NASDAQ: TTD
Stack Exchange is a network of 150+ Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the preeminent site for programmers to find, ask, and answer questions about software development. Founded in 2008 by Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood, the company was built on the premise that serving the developer community at large would lead to a better, smarter Internet. Since then, the Stack Exchange network has grown into a top-50 online destination, with Stack Overflow alone serving more than 40 million professional and novice programmers every month.
Joel Spolsky | Jeff Atwood
Acquired by Prosus
Optimizely is the world’s leading experimentation platform, enabling businesses to deliver continuous experimentation and personalization across websites, mobile apps and connected devices. Optimizely enables businesses to experiment deeply into their technology stack and broadly across the entire customer experience.
Pete Koomen | Dan Siroker
Acquired by Episerver
IBM Blue Box Local offers a turnkey, private-cloud-as-a-service (PCaaS) solution, delivered to your in-house or colocation data center in a streamlined process so you can quickly leverage the service. Powered by OpenStack, the industry-leading open source cloud platform, Blue Box Cloud Local delivers a fully-managed OpenStack PCaaS solution that maintains the highest levels of performance, security, and compliance.
Adam Ely | Caleb Sima
Acquired by IBM
Kaggle is the world's largest community of data scientists. They compete with each other to solve complex data science problems, and the top competitors are invited to work on the most interesting and sensitive business problems from some of the world's biggest companies through Masters competitions.
Anthony Goldbloom | Ben Hamner
Acquired by Alphabet
Hivemapper is a mapping and navigation tool for drone fliers to plan better, explore further, and fly safer. They are mapping the entire earth for drone fliers and making the information easily accessible for all to use and contribute to across the web, mobile, and drones.
Ben Wong | Ariel Seidman
Current
BookBub is a free service that helps millions of readers discover great deals on acclaimed ebooks while providing publishers and authors with a way to drive sales and find new fans. Members receive a personalized daily email alerting them to the best free and deeply discounted titles matching their interests as selected by the BookBub editorial team. BookBub works with all major ebook retailers and devices, and is the industry's leading ebook promotion service.
Nicholas Ciarelli | Josh Schanker
Active
BillGuard is a personal finance security and productivity company. Its mobile and website application scans credit card and debit card transactions, alerting users to possible scams, billing errors, fraudulent charges and hidden fees.
Yaron Samid | Amir Orad | Raphael Ouzan
Acquired by Prosper
Solutions from Socure easily integrate into existing workflows to verify the authenticity of a new user, verify an existing user for fraud, or to evaluate risk levels in a transaction. Its RESTful APIs are delivered via a secure and scalable cloud-based software infrastructure, to predict fraud and validate identities from over 180 countries in real-time.
Johnny Ayers | Sunil Madhu
Active
Sense360 develops a toolkit that is sold to app developers to increase engagement with their users. Sense360 creates relevant, personalized, and situationally-aware notifications using location, place, activity, context, and other phone sensory data.
Kamil Mroczek | Eli Portnoy
Acquired by Medallia
Take simple blocks and fill them with photos, videos, text, sound—even snippets of code, if you want. Use them to create, well, whatever you want or need. Art, stories, interactive experiences, radical video collages, immersive soundscapes, musical instruments, even games. Or go the practical route: make a portfolio, invitations, how-to guides, recipes, or, heck, a business card.
Joseph Cohen
Active
Embark provides the industry leading dog DNA test that tells owners what breeds make up their pets, how to prevent future possible health problems, and what features and traits your pet might have. Embark aims to end preventable disease in pets and improve the lives of pets and their families through genomics.
Ryan Boyko | Adam Boyko
Active
TravelJoy is a next generation client services platform for Travel Agents. While providing clients a digital experience and wowing them with beautiful itineraries, TravelJoy helps agents save time by cutting out repetitive and mundane tasks and unifying communication and research.
Dayo Esho | Chris Kline
Active
Adhawk uses an API which aggregates data from the most popular advertising platforms to offer frictionless optimization and cross-platform reporting to it's users via a single iOS and Web dashboard. Based on user feedback, changes are then made programmatically across the input platforms.
Todd Saunders | Dan Pratt
Active
The perfect gift, every time. Alyce chooses personalized gifts for prospects, customers, and employees & tells you when to send them to drive ROI. Alyce handles all ordering, shipping, and support and your recipient has the option to accept, exchange or donate their gift.
Greg Segall
Active
Minim provides a home network security, management and monitoring system that enables home network experts to offer a new level of support and service to their customers. Minim’s home network management products help experts offer a service that builds trust, credibility and accountability with their customers.
Jeremy Hitchcock, David Aronoff, and Alec Rooney
Current