Startup Graph

Startup Graph

A crunchbase-style demo: companies, founders, investors, rounds, and acquisitions as a typed graph. Figures approximate.

Acquired

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  • GitHub

    Developer Tools · Acquired

    Where the world's code lives. Bootstrapped for years before a single enormous Series A, then acquired by Microsoft for $7.5B in stock.

  • YouTube

    Social · Acquired

    Video for everyone, co-founded by Chad Hurley above a pizzeria. Google bought it inside 20 months for $1.65B.

  • Instagram

    Social · Acquired

    Photo sharing distilled to a feed and filters by Kevin Systrom. Acquired by Meta for $1B with 13 employees — the canonical talent-and-velocity acquisition.

Companies

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  • Microsoft

    Software · Public

    From BASIC interpreters to the cloud, founded by Bill Gates. Now GitHub's parent and OpenAI's largest backer.

  • Stripe

    Fintech · Private

    Payments infrastructure for the internet, founded by Patrick and John Collison. Started as seven lines of code; now clears a meaningful fraction of online commerce.

  • SpaceX

    Aerospace · Private

    Reusable rockets and the Starlink constellation, founded by Elon Musk to make life multiplanetary. Falcon 9 boosters now routinely land themselves.

  • Figma

    Developer Tools · Private

    Collaborative design in the browser, founded by Dylan Field. A $20B acquisition by Adobe was abandoned under regulatory pressure in 2023.

  • YouTube

    Social · Acquired

    Video for everyone, co-founded by Chad Hurley above a pizzeria. Google bought it inside 20 months for $1.65B.

Investors

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People

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Unicorns

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  • SpaceX

    Aerospace · Private

    Reusable rockets and the Starlink constellation, founded by Elon Musk to make life multiplanetary. Falcon 9 boosters now routinely land themselves.

  • OpenAI

    AI · Private

    Research lab turned product company behind ChatGPT, led by Sam Altman. Its consumer app reached 100M users faster than any product in history.

  • Stripe

    Fintech · Private

    Payments infrastructure for the internet, founded by Patrick and John Collison. Started as seven lines of code; now clears a meaningful fraction of online commerce.

  • Figma

    Developer Tools · Private

    Collaborative design in the browser, founded by Dylan Field. A $20B acquisition by Adobe was abandoned under regulatory pressure in 2023.