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Eric Paley

Managing Partner at Founder Collective

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Overview 

Eric Paley is the Managing Partner at Founder Collective in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a strong background in entrepreneurship, venture capital, and angel investing. Notable highlights of his career include co-founding and leading successful startups like 3M Brontes Technologies and Abstract Edge, as well as making strategic investments in companies like Patented.ai and ianacare.

Work Experience 

  • Managing Partner

    2009 - Current

    Founder Collective is founder stage venture capital fund that focuses on providing the first professional round of capital to promising entrepreneurs with compelling business concepts. Founder Collective was founded by a group of entrepreneurs that launched companies and led them through successful exits. These founders are focused on helping the next generation of great entrepreneurs build important and lasting business. Founder Collective focuses on technology-driven companies across a broad range of industries.

Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital fund that helps entrepreneurs build their businesses.

  • Board Director

    2010 - 2023

The Trade Desk is an online demand-side platform that provides buying tools for digital media buyers.

Raised $257,500,000.00 from Citibank, City National Bank, East West Bank, U.S. Bancorp, Bridge Bank and Opus Bank.

  • Entrepreneur-In-Residence

    2011 - 2015

  • Co-Founder/CEO/General Manager

    2002 - 2008

3M operates as a diversified technology company.

Raised $5,000,000.00 from US Department of Energy.

  • Co-Founder/CEO

    1999 - 2001

Abstract Edge helps nonprofits, educators, and mission-driven companies grow, engage, and motivate their audiences.

  • Consultant

    1998 - 1999

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