Current Firm
Founder Collective
Investments
5+ companies
Focus
Enterprise, Consumer
Eric Paley is a former repeat founder who co-founded Brontes Technologies, a 3D intra-oral imaging company spun out of MIT that he ran through to acquisition by 3M, giving him deep technical and operational experience before becoming a VC at Founder Collective. He applies probabilistic thinking inspired by "Fooled by Randomness" to investing and argues against trend-chasing, believing that industry trends follow companies rather than the other way around, so he looks for outlier founders who create the next wave instead of fitting into today's hot categories.