Each Founder Collective partner has founded and sold a technology company. The company we wish had existed when we first started out is what we hope to create with Founder Collective. We offer a user guide for managing the risky commodity known as venture capital. The company believes that in order to advance their firms and maintain control, entrepreneurs should aim to raise the least amount of money possible. Founder Collective was established on May 22, 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Founder Collective

Company Ventures is an early-stage venture firm that facilitates interactions between peers and delivering a dynamic shared experience. The firm helps businesses of all sizes unlock true value. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Company Ventures

Canaan is an early stage venture capital firm that invests in entrepreneurs with visionary ideas. With $5B under management, a diversified fund and over 190 exits to date, Canaan has invested in some of the world's leading technology and healthcare companies over the past 30 years. Canaan’s focus areas include fintech, enterprise/cloud, marketplaces, frontier tech, biopharma, digital health, and medtech.

Canaan Partners

Shine is a venture capital firm that partners with relentless, creative, convincing entrepreneurs from the earliest stages of company building.

Shine Capital

Insight Partners is a global software investor that partners with growth-stage technology and software companies. Insight has a deep focus in Fintech, Cybersecurity, AI/ML, DevOps, and Healthcare sectors. Across their people and their portfolio, they encourage a culture around a core belief growth equals opportunity. As of December 31, 2022, the firm has over $75B in regulatory assets under management. Insight Partners has invested in more than 750 companies worldwide and has seen over 55 portfolio companies achieve an IPO.

Insight Partners

Tropic

The average company is overspending on software by 25%, but it's usually impractical to build a SaaS procurement team. This drives disorganized contracts, high costs, and time lost negotiating with vendors. Tropic is a tech-enabled procurement service for startups. Experts in SaaS manage their contracts for them and work directly with your vendors on your behalf. By working with the same vendors repeatedly, they can drive better prices faster. Tropic gives back their SaaS overspending for less than the cost of an FTE. They contractually guarantee their savings. If they miss the mark, they will write a check.

<div><p>Tropic is a software platform that offers full-service procurement solutions for tech-forward companies.</p></div>

Giving firms greater control over their SaaS stack

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Tropic Intake Orchestration Certified as Coupa Business Spend Management Platform Ready

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    G2 provides a SaaS spend management platform to reduce costs and eliminate waste for IT, Finance, and Procurement teams. It offers an integrated approach to recognize, analyze, and keep track of SaaS stacks, employee SaaS consumption, manage contracts and compliance, synchronize software requests, and gain insights and analytics.
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    Vendr (formerly Blissfully) offers a SaaS buying platform that leverages AI to find the best software to buy and manage the expanding stack in a single system of record for finance and procurement teams. The platform makes use of benchmarking data, SaaS buying experts, automated workflows and analytics and insights to streamline the purchase, renewal, and deal updates. 
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Vendr

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    BetterCloud offers a SaaS management solution, which it claims to be the market leader for SaaS operations, that aids enterprises in consolidating data protection and streamlining user lifecycle management. The platform features automated app discovery, app insights, automated workflows and user data. 
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BetterCloud

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    LeanIX provides an automated SaaS management system to help businesses reduce costs and boost productivity. The platform is designed to focus on tracking, managing, and benchmarking subscribed SaaS applications. 
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LeanIX

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    Flexera One offers an IT and cloud management software platform to improve app usability and cost effectiveness for enterprises. The platform allows analytics, insights, asset management, cloud application modernization, licensing use and compliance, and maximizing technological returns.
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Flexera One

Platforms for cataloging, tracking and benchmarking a firms existing SaaS stack and discovering and purchasing new solutions that are a better fit for the organization

Platforms that help identify potential securities vulnerabilities of a firm's SaaS stack and provide a solution to ensure compliance with regulations.

Platforms that help eliminate SaaS wastage and optimize costs by providing spending analysis reports, contract renewal planning, and vendor management.

Integrated product offerings that provide complete solutions covering the entire life cycle of SaaS usage. A number of firms also offer managed services such as price negotiations with vendors

Solutions in this industry focus on providing tools for firms to manage its SaaS subscriptions

Uses AI/ML to analyze a firms SaaS stack and ensure compliance with privacy standards

Provide greater visibility on the usage and spending on SaaS platforms

Growth in remote and hybrid work arrangements led to growth in cloud-based SaaS solutions

Tropic

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