Founder Collective

Founder Collective is a venture capital firm founded in 2009 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with an office in New York. It focuses on seed- and early-stage technology companies, investing primarily in software, information technology, and TMT sectors across the United States and globally. The firm was established by successful entrepreneurs who have built and exited companies, and it emphasizes a founder-friendly approach that aims to minimize capital requirements while supporting portfolio companies. Although industry-agnostic, Founder Collective prefers opportunities with an information technology component and pursues a hands-on, founder-oriented investment style through multiple co-managed funds.

Joe DeFilippi

CFO

David Frankel

Managing Partner

Amanda Herson

General Partner

Zach Klein

Venture Partner

Eric Paley

Managing Partner

Past deals in Video Streaming

Videowise

Seed Round in 2023
Videowise is a video review application platform that automates the process of gathering and displaying product video reviews for online retail businesses. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Dover, Delaware, the platform efficiently searches, verifies, syncs, and serves video reviews sourced from various video streaming websites. It offers features such as floating widgets, a theme builder, and real-time analytics, allowing eCommerce companies to track return on investment and analyze customer engagement. By leveraging these capabilities, Videowise aims to enhance customer conversions and overall shopper experience, thereby increasing customer value for online stores.

PacketZoom

Venture Round in 2016
PacketZoom provides cloud services and a content delivery network solution that accelerates mobile application performance by analyzing, detecting, and resolving networking issues in real time without changing app code. It helps mobile apps deliver content faster and more reliably by optimizing large dynamic content, such as video and game data, and supports a range of apps including mobile games, shopping, travel, and news. The company focuses on improving mobile reliability and performance for developers and publishers.

Stanza

Seed Round in 2015
Stanza is an internet company that creates own events calendars, and share with family, friends, and beyond. The company empowers people and organizations to create their own event calendars, subscribe, and share. To date, 6M+ fans have found and synced over 315M events via Stanza. Notable publishers include NBA, NHL, and NFL teams, FOX Sports, Billboard, Warner Brothers, and thousands more. These organizations can also distribute content and video across Stanza’s network of nearly 200M monthly page views. Stanza smart Add to Calendar button is easy to embed in any business' website/mobile app and offers its audience a two-click process to sync future events with any calendar. The product includes a dashboard that lets businesses modify their events on the fly, track links and eventually drive transactions.

PacketZoom

Seed Round in 2015
PacketZoom provides cloud services and a content delivery network solution that accelerates mobile application performance by analyzing, detecting, and resolving networking issues in real time without changing app code. It helps mobile apps deliver content faster and more reliably by optimizing large dynamic content, such as video and game data, and supports a range of apps including mobile games, shopping, travel, and news. The company focuses on improving mobile reliability and performance for developers and publishers.

PacketZoom

Seed Round in 2014
PacketZoom provides cloud services and a content delivery network solution that accelerates mobile application performance by analyzing, detecting, and resolving networking issues in real time without changing app code. It helps mobile apps deliver content faster and more reliably by optimizing large dynamic content, such as video and game data, and supports a range of apps including mobile games, shopping, travel, and news. The company focuses on improving mobile reliability and performance for developers and publishers.

Stanza

Venture Round in 2014
Stanza is an internet company that creates own events calendars, and share with family, friends, and beyond. The company empowers people and organizations to create their own event calendars, subscribe, and share. To date, 6M+ fans have found and synced over 315M events via Stanza. Notable publishers include NBA, NHL, and NFL teams, FOX Sports, Billboard, Warner Brothers, and thousands more. These organizations can also distribute content and video across Stanza’s network of nearly 200M monthly page views. Stanza smart Add to Calendar button is easy to embed in any business' website/mobile app and offers its audience a two-click process to sync future events with any calendar. The product includes a dashboard that lets businesses modify their events on the fly, track links and eventually drive transactions.

YouNow

Series A in 2013
YouNow, Inc. is a New York-based company established in 2011 that operates a live social networking platform allowing users to broadcast themselves in real-time to a global audience. Its application enables users to discover talented broadcasters, watch live streams, and engage in video chats. Accessible on iOS, Android, and web platforms, YouNow fosters a community where users can create and interact with diverse content. The company also operates PROPS, a blockchain-based platform that supports a decentralized economy for video applications, allowing users to buy virtual currency while content creators earn revenue through audience engagement. Additional offerings include Rize, which connects broadcasters with engaged viewers, and the WTF game show application, where contestants participate in live game shows through video chat. By blending broadcasting, gaming, and social networking, YouNow empowers individuals to express their creativity and forge meaningful connections.

Zencoder

Seed Round in 2010
Zencoder is a cloud-based video encoding service that converts uploaded videos into web and mobile formats suitable for websites and applications. It offers fast encoding speeds, scalable cloud infrastructure, and straightforward API integration, enabling developers to encode live and on-demand video without managing hardware or software. The service supports delivery across devices and platforms, providing reliable, accessible encoding capabilities via a software-as-a-service model.

Big Think

Seed Round in 2007
Big Think, Inc., established in 2007, is a New York-based company that operates a public forum and a corporate learning platform. Its primary business is to facilitate interaction with global thought leaders through idea-driven video interviews, covering a wide range of topics from arts and culture to science and technology. The company's public platform, BigThink.com, offers free access to these interviews, aiming to help individuals stay informed and think critically in a rapidly changing world. Additionally, Big Think offers a corporate learning platform called Big Think Edge, which provides Fortune 500 companies, non-profits, and academic institutions with actionable video insights from leading experts. This platform is designed to help organizations attract, develop, and retain top talent by catalyzing conversations around critical 21st-century business topics.
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