Investing Profile

James Tamplin

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Founder Partner @ Founder Collective

tamplin.netOrlando, Florida

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Current Investing Position

Founder Collective Venture Partner

Investment Range

$400K - $2.0M

Sweet Spot

$1M

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$75M

James Tamplin is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Developer Tools (Seed)Consumer Internet (Seed)San Francisco Bay Area Raleigh-Durham / Southeast US Developer Tools (Pre-seed)Consumer Internet (Pre-seed)Enterprise (Pre-seed)SaaS (Pre-seed)SaaS (Seed)Enterprise (Seed)Angel, Scout, and Solo-Capitalists

James Tamplin's Investments On Record (16)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Alien	Pre SeedApr 2026$7M	$7M
Human	Pre SeedFeb 2025$7M	$8.6M
Co-investors: Brett Gibson (Initialized Capital), Sheridan Clayborne (ShareBear Ventures), Nigel Carr (Steward)
Blue	Pre SeedJul 2024
Co-investors: Prashant Fonseka (Tuesday Capital), Justin Kan (Goat Capital), Nicholas Moryl (Rupa), Amitt Mahajan (Presence Capital), Immad Akhund (Y Combinator), Samvit Ramadurgam (Equidate), Kyle Vogt (Cruise Automation, Inc.), Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen (Balderton Capital), Emmett Shear, Andy Coravos
Proof of Play	SeedSep 2023$33M	$33M
Co-investors: Balaji Srinivasan (Andreessen Horowitz), Diogo Monica (Haun Ventures), Justin Kan (Goat Capital), Nikil Viswanathan (The Alchemy Fund), Gabby Dizon (Infinity Ventures Crypto), Neil Mehta (Greenoaks Capital), Justin Waldron (Xfund), Immad Akhund (Y Combinator), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Chris Dixon (Curated), Vivek Patel (Hyphen Capital)
Superblocks	Series AAug 2022$37M	$60M
Co-investors: Sam Blond (Founders Fund), Yasmin Razavi (Spark Capital), Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), Aneel Bhusri (Greylock Partners), Max Mullen (Instacart), Avlok Kohli (AngelList), Akshay Kothari (Sdl Ventures), Jeremy Stoppelman (Yelp.com), Aaron Levie, Howie Liu, Neha Narkhede, Frederic Kerrest
Shortwave	Series AFeb 2022$9M	$9M
Co-investors: Immad Akhund (Y Combinator), Guru Chahal (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Oliver Cameron (Odyssey Ventures), Ilya Volodarsky (Convective Capital), Peter Reinhardt (ARCADIAN Fund)
Aside	Series AFeb 2022$17M	$18M
Co-investors: Meyer "Micky" Malka (Ribbit Capital), Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Gina Bianchini (Andreessen Horowitz), John Lilly (Greylock), Dylan Field (Figma, Inc.), Minnie Ingersoll (TenOneTen Ventures), Craig Hunter (Amplify Capital), Ronnie Lott (Bennu), Amy Chang (Unknown Ventures), Mike Schroepfer (Planeteer Capital), Tod Sacerdoti (Flex Capital, LLC // Turbo Ventures, LLC), Elliot Shmukler (Instacart), Leonard Speiser (Horizon 3 Venture Studio), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Auren Hoffman (SafeGraph), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Andrew Miklas (Y Combinator), David Lam (WI Harper Group), Matias Woloski (Okta Ventures), Liza Wang (Silicon Ventures), Neil Sirni (Proximity Ventures), Curtis Lee (Primary Venture Partners), Eric Wei (The Blackstone Group), Hunter Horsley (Bitwise Asset Management), Eric Wu (Resolute Ventures), Joshua Browder (Browder Capital), Joshua Reeves, Aaron Levie, Scott Kleper, Harris Barton, Mark Pincus
FastAF Technologies	Series ADec 2021$50M	$50M
Co-investors: Scott Belsky (A24), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Baron Davis

James Tamplin's Experience

Group Product Manager GooglePresent

Board Member Charm IndustrialPresent

Co-Founder & CEO FirebasePresent

Co-Founder & Executive Board Member Covid Act NowPresent

Partner HF0Present

Co-Founder Kradle.aiPresent

James Tamplin's Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison BS Industrial and Systems Engineering

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