The 50 Artificial Intelligence companies that produced the most founders (2026)
A founder factory is a company whose people leave to start companies of their own. This ranks every company in the graph by how many of its alumni — people who founded it or worked there — went on to found at least one company, counting only ventures started no earlier than the company itself.
Refreshed 2026-10-05 · updates nightly
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| # | Company | Founders | Companies started |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OpenAI | 23 | 23 |
| 2 | DeepMind | 15 | 15 |
| 3 | Physical Intelligence | 6 | 1 |
| 4 | Physical Intelligence (π) | 6 | 1 |
| 5 | Together AI | 5 | 6 |
| 6 | Fin | 5 | 3 |
| 7 | EQL | 4 | 5 |
| 8 | Together | 4 | 5 |
| 9 | LogicStar | 4 | 3 |
| 10 | Anysphere | 4 | 2 |
| 11 | Clarity | 4 | 2 |
| 12 | Obot AI | 4 | 2 |
| 13 | Standard Cognition | 4 | 2 |
| 14 | Imagen | 4 | 1 |
| 15 | Zyg | 3 | 10 |
| 16 | Sesame AI | 3 | 7 |
| 17 | Daloopa | 3 | 4 |
| 18 | Genesis AI | 3 | 4 |
| 19 | Adept | 3 | 3 |
| 20 | Adept AI | 3 | 3 |
| 21 | Cresta | 3 | 3 |
| 22 | Google DeepMind | 3 | 3 |
| 23 | Mycroft AI, Inc. | 3 | 3 |
| 24 | Safe Superintelligence | 3 | 3 |
| 25 | Turi | 3 | 3 |
| 26 | Arcade | 3 | 2 |
| 27 | Cerebras | 3 | 2 |
| 28 | Cognition | 3 | 2 |
| 29 | Macroscope | 3 | 2 |
| 30 | Osmo | 3 | 2 |
| 31 | Portola (Tolan) | 3 | 2 |
| 32 | Shengshu Technology | 3 | 2 |
| 33 | Shengshu Technology (Vidu) | 3 | 2 |
| 34 | Tolan | 3 | 2 |
| 35 | Toyo | 3 | 2 |
| 36 | gradio | 3 | 2 |
| 37 | AIUC | 3 | 1 |
| 38 | Adya AI | 3 | 1 |
| 39 | Adya.ai | 3 | 1 |
| 40 | Alex (Apriora) | 3 | 1 |
| 41 | Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company | 3 | 1 |
| 42 | Bluefish | 3 | 1 |
| 43 | Born | 3 | 1 |
| 44 | Centaur Labs | 3 | 1 |
| 45 | Emergence AI | 3 | 1 |
| 46 | Fyxer | 3 | 1 |
| 47 | Fyxer AI | 3 | 1 |
| 48 | Galileo | 3 | 1 |
| 49 | Saris AI | 3 | 1 |
| 50 | Xayn | 3 | 1 |