Qualcomm

Enterprise Software · San Diego, United States · #218 globally

0.16%
Spawner rate
59
Funded founders
36,916
Alumni tracked
$6.2B
Capital raised by spawns

Founder DNA

Sectors spawned founders go on to build in

Over-indexed on Telecom / Infrastructure. Founders spawned from Qualcomm pick it 8.8× more often than the global founder population.

Telecom / Infrastructure
8.8×
Hardware / Semiconductors
8.2×
Food / AgriTech
1.8×
Professional Services
1.6×
Consumer Internet
1.4×
Health Tech
1.3×
Enterprise Software
1.1×
AI / Machine Learning
0.6×

← under · 1× market average · over →

The Qualcomm network

Where the founders came from, when spawns were founded, and how much they have raised since

2013201420152016201720182019QualcommShield AI$4.1BFrore Systems$375MSolana Labs$355MAtmosic Technologies$258MHousecall Pro$204MCelona$135MEdgeQ Inc.$133MOYMotion Technologies C…$86MThird Wave Coffee$64MFounded → ( larger = more raised since )

Spawned companies

CompanyFounders from QualcommRaised
Shield AI
Ryan Tseng(2013)
$4.1B
Frore Systems
Seshu Madhavapeddy(2018)
$375M
Solana Labs
Anatoly Yakovenko(2016)
$355M
Atmosic Technologies
David Su(2015)Masoud Zargari(2016)
$258M
Housecall Pro
Adam Perry-Pelletier(2013)Ian Heidt(2013)
$204M
Celona
Mehmet Yavuz(2018)
$135M
EdgeQ Inc.
Vinay Ravuri(2018)
$133M
OYMotion Technologies Co., Ltd
Hualiang Ni(2014)
$86M
Third Wave Coffee
Ayush Bathwal(2015)
$64M
Powerlattice Technologies Inc
Gang Ren(2023)Peng Zou(2023)Sujith Dermal(2023)
$42M
Manifold
Rajendra Koppula(2015)
$42M
Typecast (Neosapience, Inc.)
Juncheol Cho(2017)Taesu Kim(2017)
$38M
Chipletz
MeeLan Lee(2015)
$32M
Lokal
Vipul Chaudhary(2016)
$30M
Banyan Nation
Mani Vajipeyajula(2013)
$23M
Yembo
Siddharth Mohan(2016)Zach Rattner(2016)
$23M
Droxi
Raveh Ben Simon(2021)
$23M
Deckard Technologies
Greg Rose(2013)Jessica Flanagan(2018)Tony Moriarty(2018)
$22M
Treeswift
Michael Shomin(2020)
$22M
Taraxa.io
Justin Snapp(2018)
$19M
Tag-N-Trac
Venu Gutlapalli(2017)
$19M
TVARIT
Suhas Patel(2017)
$17M
Aiello
Uliya Liao(2018)
$16M
2 Pai Semi
Zhiwei Dong(2016)
$16M
Rune
Varun Palivela(2023)
$12M