Joe DeFilippi

Joe D. is a Partner and CFO at Founder Collective, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He invests at the Pre-Seed and Seed stages across AI, Defense Tech, E-commerce, Consumer, Health Tech, Mobility, Software, Internet of Things, and Hardware, with an investment focus spanning the United States, Germany, and São Paulo (Brazil). He has invested in companies like SeatGeek, WHOOP, Shield AI, Verkada, and The Trade Desk. Before Founder Collective, he held finance and operations roles at Founder Collective and worked at CRV (Charles River Ventures) as Director of Financial Operations, Analyst, and Fund Accountant, and earlier at Eastward Capital as a Staff Accountant. He earned an MBA from Boston University Questrom School of Business, a BS in Accounting from Bentley University, and studied Italian/International Business at Lorenzo de Medici.