[object Object]reaches $100M revenue
Share of founders with at least one company with $100M+ revenue. The olympiad bars count the IMO and IOI medalists found among Dealroom founders. Some name matches are namesakes, so those figures may be slightly low.
2005–2026
The 21 companies founded since 2020 with $100M+ revenue
| Company | Founded | Olympiad medalists | Thiel Fellowship | Y Combinator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Airbyte |
2020 | ✓W20 | ||
 Curative |
2020 | ✓Fred Turner | ||
 Merama |
2020 | ✓Sujay Tyle | ||
 Slash |
2020 | ✓Victor Cardenas | ✓S21 | |
 Zip |
2020 | ✓S20 | ||
 Anthropic |
2021 | ✓Chris Olah | ||
 Exa |
2021 | ✓S21 | ||
 Modal |
2021 | ✓Erik Bernhardsson, Akshat Bubna | ||
 Savvy Wealth |
2021 | ✓Ritik Malhotra | ||
 Zepto |
2021 | ✓W21 | ||
 Cursor |
2022 | ✓Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark | ||
 Fireworks AI |
2022 | ✓Dmytro Dzhulgakov | ||
 Perplexity |
2022 | ✓Johnny Ho | ||
 Together |
2022 | ✓Percy Liang | ||
 Cognition |
2023 | ✓Scott Wu, Steven Hao, Walden Yan | ✓Walden Yan | |
 Legora |
2023 | ✓W24 | ||
 Mercor |
2023 | ✓Brendan Foody, Adarsh Hiremath, Surya Midha | ||
 Mistral AI |
2023 | ✓Timothée Lacroix | ||
 Retell AI |
2023 | ✓W24 | ||
 AfterQuery |
2024 | ✓W25 | ||
 Emergent |
2024 | ✓S24 |
The 40 companies founded since 2020 valued at $1B+
| Company | Founded | Olympiad medalists | Thiel Fellowship | Y Combinator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airbyte |
2020 | ✓W20 | ||
 Axelar |
2020 | ✓Georgios Vlachos | ||
| Curative |
2020 | ✓Fred Turner | ||
 Flex |
2020 | ✓Zaid Rahman | ||
| Merama |
2020 | ✓Sujay Tyle | ||
 PostHog |
2020 | ✓W20 | ||
| Slash |
2020 | ✓Victor Cardenas | ✓S21 | |
 Supabase |
2020 | ✓S20 | ||
 Varda Space |
2020 | ✓Delian Asparouhov | ||
| Zip |
2020 | ✓S20 | ||
 Adept |
2021 | ✓David Luan | ||
| Anthropic |
2021 | ✓Chris Olah | ||
| Exa |
2021 | ✓S21 | ||
 Hubble Network |
2021 | ✓W22 | ||
| Modal |
2021 | ✓Erik Bernhardsson, Akshat Bubna | ||
 Nourish |
2021 | ✓W21 | ||
| Cursor |
2022 | ✓Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark | ||
 Etched |
2022 | ✓Gavin Uberti, Chris Zhu, Robert Wachen | ||
| Fireworks AI |
2022 | ✓Dmytro Dzhulgakov | ||
 HappyRobot |
2022 | ✓S23 | ||
 Lighter |
2022 | ✓Vladimir Novakovski | ||
 Mach Industries |
2022 | ✓Ethan Thornton | ||
| Perplexity |
2022 | ✓Johnny Ho | ||
| Together |
2022 | ✓Percy Liang | ||
 Beijing Baichuan Intelligent Technology |
2023 | ✓Xiaochuan Wang | ||
| Cognition |
2023 | ✓Scott Wu, Steven Hao, Walden Yan | ✓Walden Yan | |
| Legora |
2023 | ✓W24 | ||
| Mercor |
2023 | ✓Brendan Foody, Adarsh Hiremath, Surya Midha | ||
| Mistral AI |
2023 | ✓Timothée Lacroix | ||
 Neros |
2023 | ✓Soren Monroe-Anderson | ||
 Pacific Fusion |
2023 | ✓Eric Lander | ||
 Positron |
2023 | ✓Thomas Sohmers | ||
| AfterQuery |
2024 | ✓W25 | ||
 Blacksmith |
2024 | ✓W24 | ||
 Corgi |
2024 | ✓S24 | ||
| Emergent |
2024 | ✓S24 | ||
 OLIX |
2024 | ✓James Dacombe | ||
 Starcloud |
2024 | ✓S24 | ||
 Oratomic |
2025 | ✓Hsin-Yuan Huang | ||
 Simile |
2025 | ✓Percy Liang |
The 19 Thiel Fellows behind the 17 companies
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Chris Olah
Anthropic
-
Brendan Foody
Mercor
-
Adarsh Hiremath
Mercor
-
Surya Midha
Mercor
-
Lucy Guo
Scale
-
Dylan Field
Figma
-
Paul Gu
Upstart
-
Walden Yan
Cognition
-
Ritesh Agarwal
OYO
-
Jamie Cox
FluidStack
-
Sujay Tyle
Merama
-
Fred Turner
Curative
-
Victor Cardenas
Slash
-
Sean Henry
STORD
-
Christian Owens
Paddle
-
Robbie Ferguson
Immutable
-
Tejas Manohar
Hightouch
-
Andrew Hsu
Speak
-
Ritik Malhotra
Savvy Wealth
The 101 companies founded before 2020 with $100M+ revenue
Thiel Fellowship · 10
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Scale scale.com
Fellow: Lucy Guo · also YC S16
2016
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Figma figma.com
Fellow: Dylan Field
2012
-
Upstart upstart.com
Fellow: Paul Gu
2012
-
OYO oyorooms.com
Fellow: Ritesh Agarwal
2012
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FluidStack fluidstack.io
Fellow: Jamie Cox
2017
-
STORD stord.com
Fellow: Sean Henry
2015
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Paddle paddle.com
Fellow: Christian Owens
2012
-
Immutable immutable.com
Fellow: Robbie Ferguson
2018
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Hightouch hightouch.com
Fellow: Tejas Manohar · also YC S19
2016
-
Speak speak.com
Fellow: Andrew Hsu · also YC W17
2016
Y Combinator · 85 top 10 by revenue
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DoorDash doordash.com
Batch S13
2013
-
Airbnb airbnb.com
Batch W09
2007
-
Stripe stripe.com
Batch S09
2009
-
EquipmentShare equipmentshare.com
Batch W15
2014
-
Coinbase coinbase.com
Batch S12
2012
-
Instacart instacart.com
Batch S12
2012
-
Kalshi kalshi.com
Batch W19
2018
-
Reddit reddit.com
Batch S05
2005
-
Dropbox dropbox.com
Batch S07
2007
-
GrubMarket grubmarket.com
Batch W15
2014
and 75 more
Olympiad medalists · 9
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PDD Holdings pinduoduo.com
Medalist: Lei Chen
2015
-
OpenAI openai.com
Medalist: Wojciech Zaremba
2015
-
Databricks databricks.com
Medalist: Matei Zaharia
2013
-
Rubrik rubrik.com
Medalist: Soham Mazumdar
2014
-
Udemy udemy.com
Medalist: Eren Bali
2010
-
Telegram telegram.org
Medalist: Nikolai Durov
2013
-
Cognite cognite.com
Medalist: Geir Engdahl
2016
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Quora quora.com
Medalist: Adam D'Angelo
2009
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Preply preply.com
Medalist: Roman Apostol
2012
The 32 Thiel Fellows behind the 28 companies
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Chris Olah
Anthropic
-
Brendan Foody
Mercor
-
Adarsh Hiremath
Mercor
-
Surya Midha
Mercor
-
Lucy Guo
Scale
-
Dylan Field
Figma
-
Paul Gu
Upstart
-
Walden Yan
Cognition
-
Ritesh Agarwal
OYO
-
Jamie Cox
FluidStack
-
Sujay Tyle
Merama
-
Fred Turner
Curative
-
Victor Cardenas
Slash
-
Sean Henry
STORD
-
Christian Owens
Paddle
-
Robbie Ferguson
Immutable
-
Riley Ennis
Freenome
-
Tejas Manohar
Hightouch
-
Andrew Hsu
Speak
-
Zaid Rahman
Flex
-
Iddo Gino
Rapid
-
Gavin Uberti
Etched
-
Chris Zhu
Etched
-
Robert Wachen
Etched
-
Delian Asparouhov
Varda Space
-
Thomas Sohmers
Positron
-
Ethan Thornton
Mach Industries
-
James Dacombe
OLIX
-
Soren Monroe-Anderson
Neros
-
Alfonso De los Rios
Nowports
-
Spencer Hewett
RADAR
-
David Luan
Adept
The 131 companies founded before 2020 valued at $1B+
Thiel Fellowship · 14
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Scale scale.com
Fellow: Lucy Guo · also YC S16
2016
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Figma figma.com
Fellow: Dylan Field
2012
-
Upstart upstart.com
Fellow: Paul Gu
2012
-
OYO oyorooms.com
Fellow: Ritesh Agarwal
2012
-
FluidStack fluidstack.io
Fellow: Jamie Cox
2017
-
STORD stord.com
Fellow: Sean Henry
2015
-
Paddle paddle.com
Fellow: Christian Owens
2012
-
Immutable immutable.com
Fellow: Robbie Ferguson
2018
-
Freenome freenome.com
Fellow: Riley Ennis
2014
-
Hightouch hightouch.com
Fellow: Tejas Manohar · also YC S19
2016
-
Speak speak.com
Fellow: Andrew Hsu · also YC W17
2016
-
Rapid rapidapi.com
Fellow: Iddo Gino
2015
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Nowports nowports.com
Fellow: Alfonso De los Rios · also YC W19
2018
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RADAR goradar.com
Fellow: Spencer Hewett · also YC W13
2013
Y Combinator · 108 top 10 by revenue
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DoorDash doordash.com
Batch S13
2013
-
Airbnb airbnb.com
Batch W09
2007
-
Stripe stripe.com
Batch S09
2009
-
EquipmentShare equipmentshare.com
Batch W15
2014
-
Coinbase coinbase.com
Batch S12
2012
-
Instacart instacart.com
Batch S12
2012
-
Kalshi kalshi.com
Batch W19
2018
-
Reddit reddit.com
Batch S05
2005
-
Dropbox dropbox.com
Batch S07
2007
-
GrubMarket grubmarket.com
Batch W15
2014
and 98 more
Olympiad medalists · 14
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PDD Holdings pinduoduo.com
Medalist: Lei Chen
2015
-
OpenAI openai.com
Medalist: Wojciech Zaremba
2015
-
Databricks databricks.com
Medalist: Matei Zaharia
2013
-
VK vk.com
Medalist: Nikolai Durov
2006
-
Sogou sogou.com
Medalist: Xiaochuan Wang
2004
-
Rubrik rubrik.com
Medalist: Soham Mazumdar
2014
-
Telegram telegram.org
Medalist: Nikolai Durov
2013
-
Cognite cognite.com
Medalist: Geir Engdahl
2016
-
Quora quora.com
Medalist: Adam D'Angelo
2009
-
Foundation Medicine foundationmedicine.com
Medalist: Eric Lander
2010
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Pony.ai pony.ai
Medalist: Tiancheng Lou
2016
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Preply preply.com
Medalist: Roman Apostol
2012
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Traveloka traveloka.com
Medalist: Derianto Kusuma
2012
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YugaByte yugabyte.com
Medalist: Mikhail Bautin
2016