# Founder Collective

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/founder-collective/  
**Website:** https://foundercollective.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 5.5 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Founder Collective Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Venture Capital, Seed Stage, Pre-Seed, Startups, Investment, Sector Agnostic

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/founder-collective/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.