The 21 Robotics 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	RIVR	Robotics	—	—	5	3
2	Swiss-Mile	Robotics	—	—	5	3
3	Andromeda	Robotics	—	—	4	8
4	Sunday	Robotics	—	—	4	3
5	Mimic	Robotics	—	—	4	1
6	Mimic Robotics	Robotics	—	—	4	1
7	Rhoda AI	Robotics	—	—	3	4
8	Seneca	Robotics	—	—	3	4
9	Figure	Robotics	Sunnyvale, USA	2022	3	2
10	Robust AI	Robotics	—	—	2	3
11	Sanctuary AI	Robotics	—	—	2	3
12	Lifeline Robotics A/S	Robotics	—	—	2	2
13	Standard Bots	Robotics	—	—	2	2
14	Sunday Robotics	Robotics	—	—	2	2
15	UMA	Robotics	—	—	2	2
16	Vicarious	Robotics	—	—	2	2
17	Andromeda Robotics	Robotics	—	—	2	1
18	Armstrong Robotics	Robotics	—	—	2	1
19	General Autonomy	Robotics	—	—	2	1
20	Nuro	Robotics	Mountain View, USA	2016	2	1
21	Progressive Robotics	Robotics	—	—	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.