Startup mafias.
Alumni networks of every breakout company — who learned from whom, and what they're building next. Live breakout signals, side-by-side comparisons, the lineage map, conversion rankings and a chart for every documented mafia.
How founders spread from one company to the next.
Click any blue or yellow node to open that mafia's chart. Edge styles separate founder, employee, acquisition/spinout and investor links.
How they rank — unicorns vs revenue scale.
Two ways to score a mafia: by the unicorns its alumni produce, or by the $100M+ revenue companies (a tougher bar, no valuation hype). Toggle outcome, narrow the cohort, change sort.
% of alumni startups (raised ≥$1M) that reached $100M+ revenue — a durability bar harder to fake.
Compare two founder factories head to head.
Search any two company mafias. The default view compares Rocket Internet's breadth with PayPal's outcome value, while still keeping second- and third-order mafia depth visible.
Every documented mafia.
One chart per company, ranked by alumni-founded scale (combined enterprise value). Filter by region or search to narrow.
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