The 23 Data & Analytics 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	Aster Data Systems	Data & Analytics	San Carlos, USA	2005	5	6
2	Databricks	Data & Analytics	San Francisco, USA	2013	3	3
3	Rubrik	Data & Analytics	San Francisco, USA	2014	3	3
4	Grafana	Data & Analytics	New York City, USA	2014	3	1
5	Regatta	Data & Analytics	—	—	3	1
6	Qualtrics	Data & Analytics	Provo, USA	2002	2	5
7	SiSense	Data & Analytics	New York City, USA	2004	2	3
8	Eppo	Data & Analytics	—	—	2	2
9	Gretel	Data & Analytics	—	—	2	2
10	Omniture	Data & Analytics	—	—	2	2
11	Reo.Dev	Data & Analytics	—	—	2	2
12	Crate.io	Data & Analytics	—	—	2	1
13	Crisp	Data & Analytics	—	—	2	1
14	Deasie	Data & Analytics	—	—	2	1
15	Dune Analytics	Data & Analytics	—	—	2	1
16	Harmony	Data & Analytics	—	—	2	1
17	Hopsworks	Data & Analytics	—	—	2	1
18	Kaggle	Data & Analytics	San Francisco, USA	2010	2	1
19	Modelbit	Data & Analytics	—	—	2	1
20	Periscope Data	Data & Analytics	—	—	2	1
21	Slintel	Data & Analytics	San Francisco, USA	2016	2	1
22	Understory	Data & Analytics	—	—	2	1
23	fileAI	Data & Analytics	—	—	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.