The cities that produce the most founders (2026)

Every city in the graph, ranked by the number of distinct people who founded a company headquartered there.

Refreshed 2026-10-05 · updates nightly

#	City	Country	Founders	Companies
1	San Francisco	USA	7,617	3,419
2	New York City	USA	1,923	823
3	London	United Kingdom	504	223
4	Los Angeles	USA	465	210
5	Bengaluru	India	407	162
6	Boston	USA	306	140
7	Paris	France	303	110
8	Seattle	USA	230	99
9	Toronto	Canada	193	91
10	Austin	USA	187	82
11	Singapore	Singapore	170	75
12	Mexico City	Mexico	167	59
13	Berlin	Germany	163	60
14	Mountain View	USA	110	45
15	Lagos	Nigeria	109	42
16	Atlanta	USA	99	39
17	London	UK	92	39
18	São Paulo	Brazil	92	37
19	Palo Alto	USA	90	30
20	Stockholm	Sweden	88	30
21	Gurugram	India	87	36
22	Chicago	USA	86	40
23	Tel Aviv-Yafo	Israel	75	29
24	Miami	USA	72	29
25	Jakarta	Indonesia	72	29
26	San Diego	USA	59	30
27	Denver	USA	56	21
28	Oslo	Norway	53	16
29	Mumbai	India	52	21
30	Munich	Germany	52	17
31	Monterrey	Mexico	50	18
32	Amsterdam	Netherlands	47	21
33	Bogotá	Colombia	47	20
34	Tel Aviv	Israel	46	22
35	Buenos Aires	Argentina	45	19
36	Philadelphia	USA	40	16
37	Santiago	Chile	40	15
38	Vancouver	Canada	38	19
39	Portland	USA	38	17
40	Barcelona	Spain	37	14
41	Copenhagen	Denmark	36	13
42	Sunnyvale	USA	36	12
43	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	35	17
44	Washington, D.C.	USA	35	15
45	Sydney	Australia	34	16
46	Salt Lake City	USA	34	16
47	New Delhi	India	33	16
48	Houston	USA	33	16
49	San Francisco	United States	32	14
50	Santa Clara	USA	32	12

How this is counted. Founders are attributed to the HQ city of each company they founded, so a founder with companies in two cities counts once in each. Data is community-corrected — fix something.