Founder Collective website screenshot

Founder Collective

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.

Founder Collective is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Venture Capital, Seed Stage, Pre-Seed, and Startups.

Founder Collective’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 7 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Source on GitHub
7.2/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
0 APIs
CompanyVenture CapitalSeed StagePre-SeedStartupsInvestmentSector Agnostic

Kin Score

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 7.2/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. This rating is computed from github.com/api-evangelist/founder-collective: open an issue to ask a question, or submit a pull request to add artifacts. Want it done for you? Prioritized profiling — $2,500 →

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Founder Collective Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog
 About
About
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Twitter
Twitter

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Portfolio
Portfolio
 Team
Team

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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