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The 7 Consulting & Services 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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Founder factories · Consulting & ServicesAlumni who went on to found companiesMcKinsey & Company: 13 alumni founded 14 companiesMcKinsey & Company13Bain & Company: 8 alumni founded 8 companiesBain & Company8Venturo GmbH: 2 alumni founded 2 companiesVenturo GmbH2Adaptive Game Changers Transition Institute: 2 alumni founded 1 companiesAdaptive Game Changers Transi…2Alice & Bob: 2 alumni founded 1 companiesAlice & Bob2DOMI Earth: 2 alumni founded 1 companiesDOMI Earth2proud@work GmbH: 2 alumni founded 1 companiesproud@work GmbH2
Founder factories · Consulting & Se…Alumni who went on to found companiesMcKinsey & Company: 13 alumni founded 14 companiesMcKinsey & Comp…13Bain & Company: 8 alumni founded 8 companiesBain & Company8Venturo GmbH: 2 alumni founded 2 companiesVenturo GmbH2Adaptive Game Changers Transition Institute: 2 alumni founded 1 companiesAdaptive Game C…2Alice & Bob: 2 alumni founded 1 companiesAlice & Bob2DOMI Earth: 2 alumni founded 1 companiesDOMI Earth2proud@work GmbH: 2 alumni founded 1 companiesproud@work GmbH2
# Company SectorHQFounded Founders Companies started
1 McKinsey & Company Consulting & Services United States 1926 13 14
2 Bain & Company Consulting & Services United States 1973 8 8
3 Venturo GmbH Consulting & Services Germany 2020 2 2
4 Adaptive Game Changers Transition Institute Consulting & Services Taiwan — 2 1
5 Alice & Bob Consulting & Services France 2020 2 1
6 DOMI Earth Consulting & Services Taiwan 2014 2 1
7 proud@work GmbH Consulting & Services Germany — 2 1
How this is counted. A person counts as an alumnus of a company if they founded it or worked there. They count towards the company’s score if they went on to found at least one other company that was started no earlier than the company itself. Universities and other non-commercial organisations are pruned from the graph where we can identify them. Data is community-corrected — fix something.