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Jul 2, 2025
AI Unicorns → Founders
AI Unicorns → Founders
A new generation of startups is emerging from inside the AI supergiants.
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and others are becoming the modern-day founder factories: a breeding ground for entrepreneurial talent & top operators who’ve scaled billion-dollar rocketships and are now building their own.
Just like the PayPal Mafia birthed YouTube, LinkedIn, and Palantir, today’s AI Unicorns are already producing the next wave: Character AI (by ex-OpenAI and Meta), H Company (ex-DeepMind), Flock Safety (by ex-OpenAI), and dozens more.
We used Synaptic People data to spotlight AI Unicorn alums building in stealth, pre-seed, or early stage.
A new generation of startups is emerging from inside the AI supergiants.
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and others are becoming the modern-day founder factories: a breeding ground for entrepreneurial talent & top operators who’ve scaled billion-dollar rocketships and are now building their own.
Just like the PayPal Mafia birthed YouTube, LinkedIn, and Palantir, today’s AI Unicorns are already producing the next wave: Character AI (by ex-OpenAI and Meta), H Company (ex-DeepMind), Flock Safety (by ex-OpenAI), and dozens more.
We used Synaptic People data to spotlight AI Unicorn alums building in stealth, pre-seed, or early stage.