The 12 Productivity 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	Dropbox	Productivity	San Francisco, USA	2007	4	5
2	Graphite (acq. by Cursor)	Productivity	—	—	3	2
3	Favro	Productivity	—	—	3	1
4	Superlist	Productivity	—	—	2	4
5	Ditto	Productivity	San Francisco, USA	2019	2	3
6	Asana	Productivity	San Francisco, USA	2008	2	2
7	Athena	Productivity	—	—	2	2
8	Koan	Productivity	—	—	2	2
9	Mem	Productivity	—	—	2	2
10	Nokod Security	Productivity	—	—	2	2
11	relateIQ	Productivity	United States	—	2	2
12	Venue	Productivity	Canada	—	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.