The 16 Industrials & Manufacturing 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	Sea Group	Industrials & Manufacturing	Singapore, Singapore	2009	3	8
2	Biotope	Industrials & Manufacturing	France	1993	3	1
3	Permitech	Industrials & Manufacturing	Saudi Arabia	—	3	1
4	Voodoo Manufacturing	Industrials & Manufacturing	New York City, USA	2015	3	1
5	Humble	Industrials & Manufacturing	—	—	2	3
6	Withings	Industrials & Manufacturing	France	2008	2	3
7	Lightning Tree	Industrials & Manufacturing	United Kingdom	—	2	2
8	Orangewood Labs	Industrials & Manufacturing	San Francisco, USA	2018	2	2
9	Agency Tool Company	Industrials & Manufacturing	Denver, USA	2026	2	1
10	Nuvola	Industrials & Manufacturing	Los Angeles, USA	2017	2	1
11	Pina Earth	Industrials & Manufacturing	Munich, Germany	2022	2	1
12	Rain Neuromorphics	Industrials & Manufacturing	San Francisco, USA	2018	2	1
13	Releaf Earth	Industrials & Manufacturing	Lagos, Nigeria	2017	2	1
14	Spaceium Inc	Industrials & Manufacturing	Ottawa, Canada	2024	2	1
15	Splash Inc.	Industrials & Manufacturing	Los Angeles, USA	2025	2	1
16	shotwell.ai	Industrials & Manufacturing	San Francisco, USA	2026	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.