The 50 Fintech 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

#	Company	Sector	HQ	Founded	Founders	Companies started
1	PayPal	Fintech	San Jose, USA	1998	27	71
2	Square	Fintech	San Francisco, USA	2009	15	16
3	Coinbase	Fintech	San Francisco, USA	2012	9	10
4	X.com	Fintech	Palo Alto, USA	1999	7	25
5	Goldman Sachs	Fintech	United States	1869	6	9
6	Deutsche Bank	Fintech	Germany	1870	5	6
7	Stripe	Fintech	San Francisco, USA	2010	5	6
8	Kleiner Perkins	Fintech	Menlo Park, USA	1972	5	5
9	Bloom	Fintech	San Francisco, USA	2021	5	4
10	Starling Bank	Fintech	London, UK	2014	5	1
11	Confinity	Fintech	Palo Alto, USA	1998	4	15
12	Clarium Capital	Fintech	San Francisco, USA	2002	4	10
13	General Magic	Fintech	United States	1990	4	7
14	Intuit	Fintech	Mountain View, USA	1983	4	4
15	Alloy	Fintech	New York City, USA	2015	4	3
16	Bibit	Fintech	—	—	4	3
17	Credit Suisse	Fintech	Switzerland	1856	4	2
18	Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers	Fintech	United States	1972	4	2
19	Zepz	Fintech	London, UK	2010	4	2
20	Empower Retirement	Fintech	—	—	4	1
21	Nelly	Fintech	—	—	4	1
22	Personal Capital	Fintech	—	—	4	1
23	Stoïk	Fintech	—	—	4	1
24	Founders Fund	Fintech	San Francisco, USA	2005	3	11
25	Cadre	Fintech	New York City, United States	2014	3	5
26	KredX	Fintech	Bengaluru, India	2015	3	5
27	Affirm	Fintech	San Francisco, USA	2012	3	3
28	Interswitch	Fintech	Lagos, Nigeria	2002	3	3
29	Origin	Fintech	San Francisco, USA	2018	3	3
30	StudentFinance	Fintech	—	—	3	3
31	AstroPay	Fintech	London, UK	2009	3	2
32	Corgi Insurance	Fintech	San Francisco, USA	2024	3	2
33	Flatpay	Fintech	—	—	3	2
34	Nmbr	Fintech	—	—	3	2
35	OfBusiness	Fintech	—	—	3	2
36	Otis	Fintech	—	—	3	2
37	Savvy	Fintech	San Francisco, USA	2020	3	2
38	Stream	Fintech	San Francisco, USA	2022	3	2
39	Uni Cards	Fintech	—	—	3	2
40	Wave	Fintech	Dakar, Senegal	2018	3	2
41	Blair	Fintech	San Francisco, USA	2019	3	1
42	Clarity AI	Fintech	—	—	3	1
43	ClearTax	Fintech	New Delhi, India	2010	3	1
44	Connect Money	Fintech	—	—	3	1
45	FINNY	Fintech	—	—	3	1
46	FINNY AI	Fintech	New York City, USA	2024	3	1
47	Kapital	Fintech	—	—	3	1
48	Kapital Bank	Fintech	Mexico City, Mexico	2022	3	1
49	Lucky	Fintech	—	—	3	1
50	PAYFAZZ	Fintech	Jakarta, Indonesia	2016	3	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.