The 13 HR & Recruiting 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	Terminal	HR & Recruiting	San Francisco, USA	2017	3	12
2	The Nmbr Company	HR & Recruiting	—	—	3	2
3	Pento	HR & Recruiting	—	—	3	1
4	hibob	HR & Recruiting	London, United Kingdom	2015	3	1
5	Andela	HR & Recruiting	New York City, USA	2014	2	4
6	Humu	HR & Recruiting	—	—	2	3
7	Syfter	HR & Recruiting	United States	2017	2	2
8	Warp (HR)	HR & Recruiting	—	—	2	2
9	Mya	HR & Recruiting	—	—	2	1
10	Mya Systems	HR & Recruiting	—	—	2	1
11	Pade HCM	HR & Recruiting	—	—	2	1
12	PaidHR	HR & Recruiting	—	—	2	1
13	Sourceress	HR & Recruiting	San Francisco, USA	2016	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.