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FounderPartners
Venture studioSilicon Valley · Seed–Growth · 13 people tracked
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Investment thesis
Founder Partners works closely with technical founders from pre-revenue through profitability and exit, leveraging the team's experience as serial entrepreneurs and M&A advisors. The firm invests its own capital as principal investors, ensuring alignment with founders and portfolio companies. They claim an 85%+ success rate (profitable exits or ongoing viable concerns) versus an estimated 10% baseline for startups, and have closed over 150 transactions worth $100+ billion combined.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 6, 2026.
Team · 13 people
from the firm's website & public directories
Founder mafia
3 people who came through FounderPartners went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 16 of 38 portfolio companiesSaaS ×7AI & Machine Learning ×6E-commerce ×4Marketing Tech ×4Creator Economy ×3Developer Tools ×3Enterprise Software ×3Consumer ×2
HQs:United States×9Poland×1Taiwan×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 12 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×72 founders×43 founders×1
Where their founders studiedfrom 14 founders with education data
University of California, Berkeley ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 14 founders with field-of-study data
Engineering ×5Economics ×3Computer Science ×2Humanities ×2
Investments · 38 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2025 · 12022 · 12014 · 13 dated
Roblox operates an online platform where users sign up to play and create games and interactive experiences.
Creator EconomyGamingSocialSan Mateo, US
David Baszucki(Founder)inErik Cassel(Founder)Naveen Chopra(Chief Financial Officer)inCraig Donato(Executive Officer)inMichael Guthrie(Executive Officer)inDaniel Sturman(Executive Officer)in
Co-investorsAdventure FundAltos VenturesAndreessen HorowitzFirst Round CapitalGreylock PartnersIndex Ventures+10 more
Ceramic provides a decentralized protocol for event streaming and data management that enables interoperable apps and services to share verifiable data at scale.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Danny Zuckerman(Founder)Joel Thorstensson(Founder)Michael Sena(Founder)
Co-investorsAmbush CapitalCoinbase VenturesCollab+CurrencyDeepTech VenturesDraft Ventures LlcFenbushi Capital+8 more
Chairish operates an online marketplace for vintage, antique, and pre-owned furniture, home décor, and art, alongside new products from brands and small makers.
Circular EconomyE-commerceMarketplacesSan Francisco, US
Anna Brockway(Executive Officer, Director)inGregg Brockway(Executive Officer, Director)inLyle Poindexter(Executive Officer)inAndrew Denmark(Executive Officer)Kris Miller(Director)
BoardMike Kwatinetz(Director)in
Co-investorsAzure Capital PartnersBonnier CapitalEscalate Capital PartnersTritium PartnersAltos VenturesOATV
Web3 music venture founded by Cooper Turley, investing in music startups and artists and issuing tradable song-linked coins.
Co-investors1k(x)1kxCoinbase Ventures1confirmation
iDentalSoft is a cloud-based dental practice management software that consolidates billing, patient communication, business communication, and workflow analytics into one system.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtechSaaSMilpitas, US
Michael Nguyen(Founder)in
Co-investorsFCA Venture Partners
Landingi is a landing page builder that lets marketers and entrepreneurs create pages using an AI-powered composer, goal-specific templates, or programmatic CSV-based generation, with features for personalization and multilingual content.
AI & Machine LearningMarketing TechSaaSGliwice, PL
Błażej Abel(Founder)
Co-investorsbValue Venture CapitalKnowledgeHubbValue Venture Capital
Markable.ai is an all-in-one platform for affiliate creators to monetize content through Amazon, Target, and Walmart deeplinks, featuring automated tools for link management, content boosting, and performance optimization.
AI & Machine LearningCreator EconomyMarketing TechMadison, US
Joy Tang(Executive Officer, Director)inFiona Wang(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardSheng Fu(Director)
Co-investorsArbor VenturesFoundersX VenturesNOEMIS VenturesPartech VenturesPlum Alley InvestmentsHeadline
Mixbook provides a platform for creating and sharing photo books and digital memory products, enabling users to capture and preserve personal stories and memories.
ConsumerCreator EconomyDirect to ConsumerE-commerceBerkeley
Andrew Laffoon(Co-Founder and CEO)inAryk Grosz(Co-Founder)in
Co-investorsCentral Texas Angel NetworkLevel EquityNo Talking CapitalSteamboat Ventures Asia Management, Ltd.
My Home Park sells regionally-native plant gardens direct to homeowners, shipping curated plant sets with free yard mock-ups so customers can convert lawns into pollinator-supporting native gardens.
Climate TechDirect to ConsumerE-commerceChagrin Falls, US
David Levine(Co-founder)inWyatt(Co-founder)
Co-investorsJumpstart Ventures
Pinkoi is an online marketplace for design goods, connecting independent brands and designers with shoppers across categories such as fashion, stationery, home and kitchen, and gourmet food.
ConsumerE-commerceMarketplacesTaipei, TW
Peter Yen(Founder)inMike Lee(Founder)inMaibelle Lin(Founder)in
SalesHood is a sales enablement platform that helps revenue teams increase win rates, shorten sales cycles, and improve customer engagement.
Enterprise SoftwareSaaSSales TechSan Francisco, US
Elay Cohen(Founder)in
PilotGPT is an AI copilot for pilots that uses official FAA sources, aircraft POHs, and approved manuals to provide sourced answers on airport data, VFR/IFR maps, route planning, weather briefs, and cockpit checklists.
AI & Machine LearningMobility & TransportationPalo Alto, US
Ali Moiz(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)in
Co-investorsDraper AssociatesExpansion Venture CapitalFlori VenturesKube VCRoot and Shoot VenturesVibe Capital+1 more
Testery is a cloud platform that runs automated test suites in parallel, gates deployments, and provides an audit trail verifying that AI-generated code passes tests.
AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSaaS
Chris Harbert(Founder)in
Wheelhouse (TopAdvisor) operates an online platform with interactive comparison tools for evaluating software vendors, covering pricing, features, ratings, and user reviews.
B2B MarketplacesMarketing TechSaaS
Co-investorsAlignment GrowthFifth WallNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
AcrodeaAdMovateBraintrustCleanshelfDealixFotologGlobalEnglishIMsecureKnowledge RevolutionMeltwaterMindflashOurSongP10YPixoart DesignQpodRelevadSupplyEdgeTrialpayTribefyUltris
Exits · 1
1 IPOsRobloxNYSE: RBLX
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has FounderPartners made?
- FounderPartners has 38 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does FounderPartners invest at?
- FounderPartners invests at the Seed, Series A, Growth stages.
- What is FounderPartners's typical check size?
- FounderPartners typically writes checks of $50K – $1M.
- What sectors does FounderPartners focus on?
- FounderPartners focuses on Crypto & Web3, SaaS.
- Where is FounderPartners located?
- FounderPartners is headquartered in Silicon Valley, US.
- Does FounderPartners lead rounds?
- FounderPartners typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
- Who does FounderPartners co-invest with?
- FounderPartners most often shares deals with No Talking Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, among 39 tracked co-investors.
Co-investors · 15
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, known for pioneering the platform model with a large team of operators supporting founders across stages.
Union Square Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm that invests across a broad range of technology sectors, presenting a large portfolio spanning crypto, fintech, climate, AI, education, health, and marketplaces.
Awesome People Ventures operates as a decentralized VC fund using a network of deal partners and contributors to source and vet investments, while giving carry to core contributors beyond just the GP to mirror web3's community ownership ethos. The fund focuses on investing in awesome people building awesome things in web3 with a world-positive mandate, and is backed by iconic crypto investors including Chris Dixon, Marc Andreessen/a16z, and Multicoin.
Decibel is an early-stage venture firm that backs technical founders building essential software for engineering and security teams.
Ambush Capital is an early-stage angel fund based in New York that supports entrepreneurs during the early phases of building their companies.
Variant is a venture capital firm investing in technology that expands user autonomy through greater access, knowledge, and ownership, focusing on new markets, infrastructure, and applications.
Founders Fund is a venture capital firm that backs technology companies building transformative products.
75 & Sunny operates as both a venture fund and startup studio where Zillow co-founder Spencer Rascoff directly incubates companies like Queue while leveraging his media presence as a CNBC contributor and podcast host to give portfolio companies exposure that few small funds can match. The LA-based fund concentrates heavily on proptech and "future of living" investments while co-creating companies with unconventional capital structures like SPACs and fractional home-ownership models, drawing on Rascoff's experience navigating public markets.
Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm focused on cryptoassets, tokens, and blockchain companies, managing a hedge fund and several venture funds across public and private markets.
Seed Club Ventures is a Venture DAO that backs early-stage founders building at the intersection of web3 and community, drawing on a membership of over 60 crypto innovators and investors.
Canary is a Brazilian venture capital fund founded and led by repeat tech founders that uses a systematic 40+ criteria framework to evaluate startups, positioning itself as the early-stage entry point for top global funds wanting access to Latin American deals. The firm runs JetPack, a program that provides $50k, office space, and operational support to first-time founders living abroad who want to start companies targeting inefficient Brazilian sectors like real estate, healthcare, and financial services.
Divergence is a crypto-focused investment firm that describes itself as backing every radical form of capital, investing across DeFi, NFTs, DAOs, and blockchain infrastructure.
▶3 more co-investors
Firms observed investing alongside FounderPartners, from public investor directories. Shared companies are the overlap with FounderPartners's recorded portfolio.
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