# Founder Collective: investment profile

Published mandate, cheque sizes and source evidence for Founder Collective. Sources checked 2026-10-11.

Source: https://12inf.ai/resources/funds/founder-collective
Updated: 2026-10-14

Founder-aligned seed fund that deliberately keeps funds under $100M, backs pre-seed and seed companies in any sector, and will lead or participate without rigid ownership targets.

## Published mandate

- **Stage:** Pre-seed, Seed

- **Sectors:** Generalist

## Sources

Sources checked **2026-10-11**.

- [Founder Collective — Website](https://www.foundercollective.com/)

- [Founder Collective — Ethos](https://foundercollective.com/ethos/)

- [Founder Collective — Team](https://foundercollective.com/team/)

- [Founder Collective — Portfolio](https://foundercollective.com/portfolio/)

- [Founder Collective — Startup success outside silicon valley data from over 200 exits in 17 cities](https://foundercollective.com/blog/startup-success-outside-silicon-valley-data-from-over-200-exits-in-17-cities/)

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- [Pre-seed investors](/resources/investors/pre-seed)

- [Seed investors](/resources/investors/seed)

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