The 13 Semiconductors 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	AMD	Semiconductors	Santa Clara, USA	1969	5	7
2	SambaNova Systems	Semiconductors	Palo Alto, USA	2017	3	8
3	Marvell Technology	Semiconductors	United States	1995	3	6
4	Intel	Semiconductors	Santa Clara, USA	1968	3	4
5	SeaMicro	Semiconductors	—	—	3	2
6	Ayar Labs	Semiconductors	—	—	2	2
7	Cognichip	Semiconductors	—	—	2	2
8	Nervana Systems	Semiconductors	—	—	2	2
9	Rivos	Semiconductors	—	—	2	2
10	Graphcore	Semiconductors	Bristol, UK	2016	2	1
11	Icera	Semiconductors	—	—	2	1
12	QuantumDiamonds	Semiconductors	—	—	2	1
13	Rain AI	Semiconductors	—	—	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.