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 2026-09-13 · updates nightly

#	Company	Sector	HQ	Founded	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.