Startups founded by INSEAD MBAs have topped our list for the last three years.
P&Q’s 2024 100 Highest Funded MBA Startups (1-25) |
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| Here are the top 25 MBA startups according to total funding raised. To qualify for this year’s list, a startup had to be founded between January 1, 2019, and December 31, 2023, and must have at least one MBA founder during that same timeframe. | |||||||
| 2024 Rank | Startup | $$ Raised (millions) | Founder(s) | Business School | Industry | Year Founded | Location |
| 1 | Capchase | $1,100.00 | Luis Basagoiti Marqués | INSEAD | FinTech | 2020 |
New York City
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| 2 | Tamara | $955.60 | Abdulmohsen Al Babtain | London Business School | Fintech | 2020 |
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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| 3 | Kyte | $549.00 | Ludwig Schoenack | UC Berkeley Haas | Car sharing | 2019 |
San Francisco
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| 4 | Merama | $525.00 | Sujay Tyle | Harvard Business School | Consumer Goods, E-Commerce | 2020 | Mexico City |
| 5 | Ajaib | $245.20 | Yada Piyajomkwan, Anderson Sumarli | Stanford GSB | FinTech | 2019 |
Jakarta, Indonesia
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| 6 | MBX Biosciences | $238.40 | Tim Knickerbocker | UCLA Anderson | Biotech | 2019 |
Carmel, Indiana
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| 7 | AtoB | $230.00 | Tushar Misra | UC Berkeley Haas | Transportation | 2021 |
San Francisco
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| 8 | Pathway Homes | $225.00 | Kyle Ruane | UCLA Anderson | Real Estate | 2021 |
Dallas, Texas
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| 9 | Forum Brands | $220.70 | Brenton Howland, Alex Kopco, Ruben Amar | Stanford GSB | E-Commerce | 2020 |
New York City
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| 10 | Arc Technologies | $203.50 | Raven Jiang, Nick Lombardo, Don Muir | Stanford GSB | FinTech, Saas | 2021 |
San Francisco
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| 11 | Project Canary | $149.20 | William Foiles | Stanford GSB | Energy, Envrionmental Engineering | 2019 |
Denver, Colorado
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| 12 | Apex | $122.00 | Ian Cinnamon | Stanford GSB | Defense, Space | 2022 |
Los Angeles
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| 13 | Una Brands | $115.00 | Adrian Johnston | INSEAD | Analytics | 2021 | Singapore |
| 14 | True Footage | $97.00 | John Liss | Harvard Business School | Real Estate | 2019 |
Seattle, Washington
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| 15 | Vannevar Labs | $91.10 | Brett Granberg, Nini Moorhead | Stanford GSB | AI, Defense | 2019 |
Palo Alto, California
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| 16 | Foodology, Inc | $86.50 | Juan Azuero, Daniela Izquierdo | Harvard Business School | Food & Beverage | 2019 |
Bogotá, Colombia
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| 17 | Mitra Chem | $80.00 | Vivas Kumar | Stanford GSB | Battery, Renewable Energy | 2020 |
Palo Alto, California
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| 18 | Solvento | $63.00 | Jaime Tabachnik | Northwestern Kellogg | Fintech | 2021 | Mexico City |
| 19 | Opontia | $62.00 | Philip Johnston | UPenn Wharton | E-commerce, Brand Marketing | 2021 | Dubai, UAE |
| 20 | Osmind | $57.20 | Lucia Huang | Stanford GSB | Health Care | 2020 |
San Francisco
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| 21 | Kocomo | $56.00 | Graciela Arango, Euan Cassie | Harvard Business School, INSEAD | Real Estate | 2021 |
Miami, Florida
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| 22 | Ghost | $55.00 | Josh Kaplan | Columbia Business School,Columbia University | Retail Tech, Software | 2021 |
Los Angeles
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| 23 | Gravitiq | $55.00 | Sachin Srivastava | London Business School | Health Care | 2021 |
New York City
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| 24 | SafeBase | $53.10 | Adar Arnon, Ahmad Yang | Harvard Business School | Cloud Security | 2020 |
San Francisco
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| 25 | Cyble | $44.81 | Beenu Arora, Manish Chachada | Columbia Business School | AI, Cybersecurity | 2019 | |
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