Founding [adjective]

Largely eschewing venture money, Calendly, founded in 2013, has primarily bootstrapped itself to profitability.

The deal is a reunion of sorts for BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti, who co-founded HuffPost.

I don’t want listeners to be confused with the aviation company, because we’re talking about a 3D modeling and simulation enterprise that was founded almost 40 years ago and has more than 20,000 employees around the globe.

Before founding Capella Space, Payam Banazadeh worked as a project manager and flight systems engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

That year, he and a group of fellow state-media defectors founded Mediafax, believed to be the world’s first faxed daily paper.

Kneeland Youngblood is founding partner and chairman of Pharos Capital Group, a health care–focused private equity firm.

Esterer founded Markko Vineyard in 1968 in northeast Ohio, within sight of Lake Erie.

Impact Snacks is a Generation Z–founded, plant-based snack brand that touts to be so dedicated to conscious consumerism that Impact Snacks’ packaging is made from entirely plant-based bioplastics.

He founded the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture in 2003 to explore how neuroscience can teach architects to construct spaces that improve the health of their occupants.

In 2019, female-founded companies received 6% of the deal volume, but only 3% of the venture dollars—in dollar terms, that’s $195 billion for male-founded companies and only $6 billion for female-founded companies.