Founder Collective is deliberately anti-thematic. Visionary founders have shown us that the weird use cases of today can become the hot themes of tomorrow.
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The perfect gift, every time. Alyce chooses personalized gifts for prospects, customers, and employees & tells you when to send them to drive ROI. Alyce handles all ordering, shipping, and support and your recipient has the option to accept, exchange or donate their gift.
Greg Segall
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BackEngine.AI analyzes all customer calls, emails, and slack channels and shows you precisely what your customer base (and each specific customer) needs and wants.
Eli Portnoy, Wendell Hicken
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Acquired by IBM
IBM Blue Box Local offers a turnkey, private-cloud-as-a-service (PCaaS) solution, delivered to your in-house or colocation data center in a streamlined process so you can quickly leverage the service. Powered by OpenStack, the industry-leading open source cloud platform, Blue Box Cloud Local delivers a fully-managed OpenStack PCaaS solution that maintains the highest levels of performance, security, and compliance.
Adam Ely | Caleb Sima
Acquired by IBM
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BookBub is a free service that helps millions of readers discover great deals on acclaimed ebooks while providing publishers and authors with a way to drive sales and find new fans. Members receive a personalized daily email alerting them to the best free and deeply discounted titles matching their interests as selected by the BookBub editorial team. BookBub works with all major ebook retailers and devices, and is the industry's leading ebook promotion service.
Nicholas Ciarelli | Josh Schanker
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US electronics manufacturers spend $145B per year on components manually over email, phone, and outdated websites, which is slow and costly. Breadboard helps companies regain control of their supply chain with greater transparency and component pricing.
Zachary Feuerstein & George Balayan
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NYSE: BZFD
BuzzFeed is the leading independent digital media and tech company delivering news and entertainment content to a global audience. BuzzFeed publishes news stories, investigations, lists and videos about identity and experience, quizzes, recipes, and cartoons across our site and mobile apps, Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, Twitter, Pinterest and more. We use proprietary technology and modern data metrics to continuously test, learn, and optimize. Our workflow and products are constantly evolving to better serve our audience.
Jonah Peretti
NYSE: BZFD
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Castle is the finance app that helps you save time and money managing your biggest asset: your home. Homeowners use Castle to pay for and track all of their home expenses in one place. Castle then monitors those transactions for opportunities to save.
Madeline Hung and Hugo Van Vuuren
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Cephable is on a mission to help everyone use technology in ways that work for them by developing assistive technology in the form of hardware, software, and AI driven solutions. By giving everyone more means to control their computers, games, and other software, we can level the playing field and all have more fun together.
Alex Dunn
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NYSE: CPNG
Coupang is one of the largest and fastest growing e-commerce platforms on the planet. Their vision is to create a world in which customers ask “How did I ever live without Coupang?” Based in South Korea and powered by world-class technology and operations, they have set out to transform the end-to-end Customer experience -- from revolutionizing last-mile delivery to rethinking how customers search and discover on a truly mobile-first platform. Coupang has been named one of the “50 Smartest Companies in the World” by MIT Technology Review and “30 Global Game Changers” by Forbes.
Coupang is a global company with offices in Beijing, Los Angeles, Seattle, Seoul, Shanghai, and Silicon Valley.
Bom Kim
NYSE: CPNG
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CYBERA provides a platform to fight financially motivated cybercrime for banks and crypto and online businesses. CYBERA provides a comprehensive solution that coordinates a rapid response between victims, local law enforcement agencies, and global financial institutions. CYBERA automatically files criminal complaints to recover funds and effectively shares nonpublic cybercrime data in real-time to prevent money laundering and fraudulent transactions before victim losses occur.
Nicola Staub | Claudio Staub
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Embark provides the industry leading dog DNA test that tells owners what breeds make up their pets, how to prevent future possible health problems, and what features and traits your pet might have. Embark aims to end preventable disease in pets and improve the lives of pets and their families through genomics.
Ryan Boyko | Adam Boyko
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Flatfile imports, maps, and normalizes customer data from spreadsheets into software applications. Flatfile's Importer is installed via a simple javascript snippet, usually in less than a week, and it learns over time how data should be identified and cleaned. Its user-centric design ensures that your customers can easily and delightfully bring their data into your product.
David Boskovic | Eric Crane
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Health Note is an AI platform that pre-collects patient information and automatically writes physician notes. Health Note optimizes clinic workflow by enabling patients to partake in previsit participation of their own care. No apps to download, no portals to sign-in to. Frictionless, platform agnostic, and able integrate with clinic EMR.
Josh Reischer │ Aaron Rau
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Inside Weather aims to be fast retail for furniture and is among the fastest and largest catalog of mass customized furniture online.
Ben Parsa
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Julia is a high-level dynamic programming language designed to address the requirements of high-performance numerical and scientific computing. Julia Computing, Inc., founded by the founders of the Julia language, builds products for users of Julia and provides related professional services.
Jeff Bezanson | Alan Edelman | Keno Fischer | Stefan Karpinski | Viral Shah | Deepak Vinchi
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Acquired by Alphabet
Kaggle is the world's largest community of data scientists. They compete with each other to solve complex data science problems, and the top competitors are invited to work on the most interesting and sensitive business problems from some of the world's biggest companies through Masters competitions.
Anthony Goldbloom | Ben Hamner
Acquired by Alphabet
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NetBox Cloud is an enterprise grade, SaaS version of open source NetBox: the world's most popular Network Source of Truth. NetBox Cloud eliminates the administrative overhead associated with hosting and managing NetBox instances and accelerates the customer network automation journey.
Salil Jani | Kris Beevers
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Acquired by Episerver
Optimizely is the world’s leading experimentation platform, enabling businesses to deliver continuous experimentation and personalization across websites, mobile apps and connected devices. Optimizely enables businesses to experiment deeply into their technology stack and broadly across the entire customer experience.
Pete Koomen | Dan Siroker
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Acquired by Medallia
Sense360 develops a toolkit that is sold to app developers to increase engagement with their users. Sense360 creates relevant, personalized, and situationally-aware notifications using location, place, activity, context, and other phone sensory data.
Kamil Mroczek | Eli Portnoy
Acquired by Medallia
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Solutions from Socure easily integrate into existing workflows to verify the authenticity of a new user, verify an existing user for fraud, or to evaluate risk levels in a transaction. Its RESTful APIs are delivered via a secure and scalable cloud-based software infrastructure, to predict fraud and validate identities from over 180 countries in real-time.
Johnny Ayers | Sunil Madhu
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Stack Exchange is a network of 150+ Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the preeminent site for programmers to find, ask, and answer questions about software development. Founded in 2008 by Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood, the company was built on the premise that serving the developer community at large would lead to a better, smarter Internet. Since then, the Stack Exchange network has grown into a top-50 online destination, with Stack Overflow alone serving more than 40 million professional and novice programmers every month.
Joel Spolsky | Jeff Atwood
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Subsalt makes it safe and easy for organizations to share sensitive data. Subsalt's analytical data store makes provably-private data available to internal teams, partners, and machine learning vendors, ensuring compliance without cumbersome legal process or destructive data masking techniques.
Ben Winokur | Luke Segars | David Singletary
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Talos is an independent prime services platform built specifically for crypto, operating across multiple liquidity providers. It aims to close the gap between institutional trading services available in traditional markets and those in crypto, thus bringing professional capital to this evolving asset class.
Anton Katz and Ethan Feldman
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Omnichannel buying capabilities and industry-leading tech.
The Trade Desk is a buy-side platform providing access to all RTB inventory for display, television, video, social, mobile, and more. Media buyers using our products can run campaigns in every online media channel and report on how each channel combines to influence their customer.
Buyers on The Trade Desk utilize a fully self-serve platform, with industry-best training and support. Tech-forward agencies, aggregators, and platforms can enhance their proprietary offerings with The Trade Desk’s leading APIs.
Jeff Green | Dave Pickles
NASDAQ: TTD
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TravelJoy is a next generation client services platform for Travel Agents. While providing clients a digital experience and wowing them with beautiful itineraries, TravelJoy helps agents save time by cutting out repetitive and mundane tasks and unifying communication and research.
Dayo Esho | Chris Kline
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Take simple blocks and fill them with photos, videos, text, sound—even snippets of code, if you want. Use them to create, well, whatever you want or need. Art, stories, interactive experiences, radical video collages, immersive soundscapes, musical instruments, even games. Or go the practical route: make a portfolio, invitations, how-to guides, recipes, or, heck, a business card.
Joseph Cohen
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Verve is building soft wearable solutions to augment the way people move. They are currently focused on solutions that can be worn for a full day of work to augment and improve productivity of industry workers performing strenuous tasks.
Ignacio Galiana | Conor Walsh | Michael Rouleau | Nicolas Menard | Nathalie Degenhardt
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