Founders' Co-op
1605 Boylston Ave, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Overview
Founders' Co-op is a seed-stage venture fund built by founders, for founders. Based in Seattle, they help the strongest entrepreneurs in the Pacific Northwest build companies that the best growth investors in the world choose to back. As the largest and longest-running seed-stage specialist fund in the region, they are a trusted partner to early-stage founders and a trusted point of access to Pacific Northwest dealflow for out-of-region investors at the seed stage and beyond.
- Total investments
- 104
- Lead investments
- 21
- Investments · 12mo
- 9
- Active investors
- 4
Sector focus
- Asset Management
- Financial Services
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- logcat.ai
Led · Seed · Jul 2026
logcat.ai develops Delta, an AI platform that ingests kernel dumps, modem logs, and bug reports to detect root causes in minutes and recommend code-level fixes automatically. Founded in 2025 by former Esper engineers Varun Chitre and Tarun Vashisth, the company targets Android and Linux device engineering workflows. The startup says it has analyzed more than 10 billion lines of trace data and that hundreds of engineers are already using its platform. logcat.ai positions itself as an AI backbone for faster and more efficient operating-system-level engineering. The company recently closed a $2.55M Pre-Seed round led by Founders Co-op with multiple participating investors, providing initial capital to scale the product and team. No revenue, valuation, or detailed go-to-market metrics were disclosed in the articles.
- Venice
Participated · Series A · Jul 2026
Venice offers access to more than 200 AI models—both hosted open-source models in its own data centers and routed closed-source models—while emphasizing user privacy through client-side encryption, external proxy routing, and optional end-to-end encryption for subscribers. Two years after launch the company reports over 3 million active users, more than 850,000 unique website visitors, and roughly 1.7 million API calls per day. Venice runs an “uncensored” experience with customizable AI characters and supports text, image, audio, and video generation, and it has issued two crypto tokens, VVV and DIEM, with about 8% of users paying with crypto. The company is already profitable with annualized run-rate revenues above $70 million. Management plans to use new funding to acquire GPUs and build its own data centers to cease GPU leasing and improve gross margins.
- SageOx
Participated · Seed · May 2026
SageOx provides a context layer that captures decisions, intent, and history across conversations, chat, coding sessions, and existing tools, turning that information into structured knowledge fed into agent interactions. Its platform aims to keep humans and AI agents aligned by enabling agents to pick up work with awareness of prior decisions and team conventions. The company has adopted an "open work" model and is working with early design partners to validate its approach. SageOx was founded in 2026 by Ajit Banerjee, Ryan Snodgrass, and Milkana Brace, a team with deep experience building foundational systems across AWS, Apple, Facebook, and prior startups. The company plans to remain intentionally lean while using seed funding to continue product development and hire a small number of key roles.
- StitcherAI
Led · Seed · May 2026
StitcherAI builds an IT finance intelligence platform intended to address gaps in data completeness, accuracy and business context within existing IT finance tools. The company launched from stealth concurrent with its $3 million pre-seed round led by Founders Co-op. CEO and founder Udam Dewaraja brings two decades of experience in cloud engineering, including leadership roles at AWS and Citi. Financially, StitcherAI is at the pre-seed stage with the announced $3M round and no prior rounds reported. The startup intends to use the current traction from its launch to build momentum and raise additional funding within the next 6–12 months to scale in the market. The article does not disclose operating metrics such as revenue or users.
- Certiv
Participated · Seed · Mar 2026
Certiv builds a platform that intercepts, observes and manages AI agents running on employee workstations to prevent unsafe actions before they reach production systems. Its platform can discover agents, tools, models, endpoints and usage patterns; provide visibility into how agents operate across an organization; enforce deterministic and intent-based policies; and score risk, evaluate policy and stop dangerous actions in real time. The company is working with early customers to secure agents across development, operations and knowledge workflows. Led by CEO Jason Needham and based in Seattle, WA, Certiv recently raised $4.2M in a Pre-Seed round. The funds are intended to support engineering headcount growth and initial enterprise deployments. The article does not disclose revenue, user metrics, or prior financings.