Founder Factor
founderfactor.com Direct investor
Founder Factor is an investment platform led by Y Combinator alumni that invests in top startups from Y Combinator batches. It uses a human-machine selection approach and focuses on European capital with operating reach.
Founder Factor is a venture capital firm headquartered in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series A, in AI, fintech, Health-tech and B2B.
“We aim to invest in the top 10% of each YC batch”
— Founder Factor, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
- Invests in
- US, EU, UK
- Sectors
- AI, Fintech, Health-tech, B2B, SaaS
Team, as Founder Factor publishes it
- Mats Stigzelius Managing GP
- Kasper Vardrup GP
- Anna Joo Fee Partner
- Leeho Lim Partner
- Martin Lykke Suhr Partner
- Søren Therkelsen Partner
- Inna Thalmann Partner
- Olcay Yilmazcoban Partner
- Marco Scotti Partner
- Mathias Hermansen Partner
- Mats Terwiesch Partner
Names and roles exactly as listed on founderfactor.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 22 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- ZAKA VC 3 shared companies: finaldose.ai, perfectbit.ai, celltype.com
- Ventioneers Capital INC. 3 shared companies: complir.io, pirislabs.io, adialante.com
- Lobster Capital, LLC 2 shared companies: finaldose.ai, pantainsure.com
- Playfair Capital 1 shared company: getdayjob.ai
- Ada Ventures 1 shared company: interfaze.ai
- Shorooq Partners 1 shared company: usecrunched.com
- Calm/Storm Ventures 1 shared company: goclicks.ai
- ACVC Management, LLC 1 shared company: celltype.com
- Golden Gate Ventures 1 shared company: robodock.tech
- Enza Capital 1 shared company: heylua.ai
and 12 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Founder Factor publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://founderfactor.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, people, status
- https://www.sec.gov/data-research/sec-markets-data/information-about-registered-investment-advisers-exempt-reporting-advisershq_country, hq_city
- https://www.founderfactor.com/type
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