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Founders Of TOP 100 Software Companies

  • Microsoft

    • Founders: Bill Gates and Paul Allen
    • Year Founded: 1975
    • Country: USA
  • Oracle Corporation

    • Founders: Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates
    • Year Founded: 1977
    • Country: USA
  • SAP SE

    • Founders: Dietmar Hopp, Hasso Plattner, Klaus Tschira, Claus Wellenreuther
    • Year Founded: 1972
    • Country: Germany
  • IBM

    • Founders: Charles Ranlett Flint (founded as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company)
    • Year Founded: 1911
    • Country: USA
  • Adobe Inc.

    • Founders: John Warnock and Charles Geschke
    • Year Founded: 1982
    • Country: USA
  • Salesforce

    • Founders: Marc Benioff, Parker Harris, Dave Moellenhoff, and Frank Dominguez
    • Year Founded: 1999
    • Country: USA
  • Google (Alphabet Inc.)

    • Founders: Larry Page and Sergey Brin
    • Year Founded: 1998
    • Country: USA
  • Facebook (Meta Platforms, Inc.)

    • Founders: Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes
    • Year Founded: 2004
    • Country: USA
  • Twitter

    • Founders: Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams
    • Year Founded: 2006
    • Country: USA
  • Amazon

    • Founder: Jeff Bezos
    • Year Founded: 1994
    • Country: USA
  • Intel Corporation

    • Founders: Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore
    • Year Founded: 1968
    • Country: USA
  • Cisco Systems

    • Founders: Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner
    • Year Founded: 1984
    • Country: USA
  • Dell Technologies

    • Founder: Michael Dell
    • Year Founded: 1984
    • Country: USA
  • HP Inc. (Hewlett-Packard)

    • Founders: Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard
    • Year Founded: 1939
    • Country: USA
  • VMware

    • Founders: Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Edward Wang, and Edouard Bugnion
    • Year Founded: 1998
    • Country: USA
  • Symantec Corporation

    • Founders: Gary Hendrix
    • Year Founded: 1982
    • Country: USA
  • Uber Technologies

    • Founders: Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp
    • Year Founded: 2009
    • Country: USA
  • Airbnb
    • Founders: Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk
    • Year Founded: 2008
    • Country: USA
  • Dropbox

    • Founders: Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi
    • Year Founded: 2007
    • Country: USA
  • PayPal

    • Founders: Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, Elon Musk, Luke Nosek, and Ken Howery
    • Year Founded: 1998
    • Country: USA
  • Slack Technologies

    • Founders: Stewart Butterfield, Eric Costello, Cal Henderson, and Serguei Mourachov
    • Year Founded: 2009
    • Country: USA

Latest update:

Cal Henderson CTO of Slack and last co-founder, is leaving his role immediately. He will stay with Slack until March 1, 2024. Parker Harris, co-founder and CTO of Salesforce, will take over as Slack’s CTO. The search for a new Salesforce CTO has not yet begun.

  • Tencent

    • Founder: Ma Huateng (Pony Ma)
    • Year Founded: 1998
    • Country: China
  • Alibaba Group

    • Founder: Jack Ma
    • Year Founded: 1999
    • Country: China
  • Baidu

    • Founders: Robin Li and Eric Xu
    • Year Founded: 2000
    • Country: China
  • TikTok (ByteDance)

    • Founder: Zhang Yiming
    • Year Founded: 2012
    • Country: China
  • Sony Corporation

    • Founders: Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita
    • Year Founded: 1946
    • Country: Japan
  • Nintendo

    • Founders: Fusajiro Yamauchi
    • Year Founded: 1889
    • Country: Japan
  • Samsung Electronics

    • Founder: Lee Byung-chul
    • Year Founded: 1969
    • Country: South Korea
  • LG Electronics

    • Founder: Koo In-hwoi
    • Year Founded: 1958
    • Country: South Korea
  • Nokia Corporation

    • Founder: Fredrik Idestam
    • Year Founded: 1865 (as Nokia Ab)
    • Country: Finland
  • Ericsson

    • Founders: Lars Magnus Ericsson
    • Year Founded: 1876
    • Country: Sweden
  • Spotify

    • Founders: Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon
    • Year Founded: 2006
    • Country: Sweden
  • Skype

    • Founders: Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis
    • Year Founded: 2003
    • Country: Sweden (originally)
  • King (King Digital Entertainment)

    • Founders: Riccardo Zacconi, Melvyn Morris, and Sebastian Knutsson
    • Year Founded: 2003
    • Country: Sweden
  • Zynga

    • Founders: Mark Pincus, Justin Waldron, Eric Schiermeyer, Michael Luxton, and Steve Schoettler
    • Year Founded: 2007
    • Country: USA
  • Palantir Technologies

    • Founders: Peter Thiel, Nathan Gettings, Joe Lonsdale, Stephen Cohen, and Alex Karp
    • Year Founded: 2003
    • Country: USA
  • Pinterest

    • Founders: Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp
    • Year Founded: 2010
    • Country: USA
  • Qualcomm

    • Founders: Irwin Jacobs, Andrew Viterbi, Franklin Antonio, and Adelia Coffman
    • Year Founded: 1985
    • Country: USA
  • Epic Games

    • Founder: Tim Sweeney
    • Year Founded: 1991
    • Country: USA
  • Activision Blizzard

    • Founders: Bobby Kotick and Brian Kelly
    • Year Founded: 2008 (merger)
    • Country: USA
  • Square

    • Founders: Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey
    • Year Founded: 2009
    • Country: USA
  • Intuit

    • Founders: Scott Cook and Tom Proulx
    • Year Founded: 1983
    • Country: USA
  • Box, Inc.

    • Founders: Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith
    • Year Founded: 2005
    • Country: USA
  • Workday, Inc.

    • Founders: David Duffield and Aneel Bhusri
    • Year Founded: 2005
    • Country: USA
  • Atlassian

    • Founders: Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar
    • Year Founded: 2002
    • Country: Australia
  • Canva

    • Founders: Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht, and Cameron Adams
    • Year Founded: 2012
    • Country: Australia
  • Wix.com

    • Founders: Avishai Abrahami, Nadav Abrahami, and Giora Kaplan
    • Year Founded: 2006
    • Country: Israel
  • Check Point Software Technologies

    • Founders: Gil Shwed, Marius Nacht, and Shlomo Kramer
    • Year Founded: 1993
    • Country: Israel
  • Red Hat

    • Founders: Bob Young and Marc Ewing
    • Year Founded: 1993
    • Country: USA
  • Lenovo Group

    • Founders: Liu Chuanzhi
    • Year Founded: 1984
    • Country: China
  • Xiaomi

    • Founder: Lei Jun
    • Year Founded: 2010
    • Country: China
  • Meituan

    • Founder: Wang Xing
    • Year Founded: 2010
    • Country: China
  • WeChat (Tencent)

    • Founder: Zhang Xiaolong
    • Year Founded: 2011
    • Country: China
  • JD.com

    • Founder: Liu Qiangdong (Richard Liu)
    • Year Founded: 1998
    • Country: China
  • HTC Corporation
    • Founders: Cher Wang and HT Cho
    • Year Founded: 1997
    • Country: Taiwan
  • ASUS

    • Founder: Ted Hsu, M.T. Liao, Wayne Hsieh, and T.H. Tung
    • Year Founded: 1989
    • Country: Taiwan
  • Paytm

    • Founder: Vijay Shekhar Sharma
    • Year Founded: 2010
    • Country: India
  • Infosys

    • Founders: N.R. Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, N.S. Raghavan, S. Gopalakrishnan, K. Dinesh, and Ashok Arora
    • Year Founded: 1981
    • Country: India
  • Wipro

    • Founders: M.H. Hasham Premji
    • Year Founded: 1945
    • Country: India
  • HCL Technologies

    • Founder: Shiv Nadar
    • Year Founded: 1976
    • Country: India
  • Capgemini

    • Founders: Serge Kampf
    • Year Founded: 1967
    • Country: France
  • Thales Group

    • Founder: François Drouin
    • Year Founded: 1893
    • Country: France
  • Dassault Systèmes

    • Founder: Marcel Dassault
    • Year Founded: 1981
    • Country: France
  • Atos

    • Founders: Bernard Bourigeaud
    • Year Founded: 1997
    • Country: France
  • Société Générale

    • Founder: Jean-Baptiste Colbert
    • Year Founded: 1864
    • Country: France
  • Telefónica

    • Founders: César Alierta
    • Year Founded: 1924
    • Country: Spain
  • Indra

    • Founders: Javier Monzón
    • Year Founded: 1993
    • Country: Spain
  • Amadeus IT Group

    • Founders: Air France, Iberia, Lufthansa, and SAS
    • Year Founded: 1987
    • Country: Spain
  • Ericsson

    • Founders: Lars Magnus Ericsson
    • Year Founded: 1876
    • Country: Sweden
  • TomTom

    • Founders: Harold Goddijn, Peter-Frans Pauwels, Pieter Geelen, and Corinne Vigreux
    • Year Founded: 1991
    • Country: Netherlands
  • ASML Holding

    • Founders: Arthur del Prado
    • Year Founded: 1984
    • Country: Netherlands
  • Booking Holdings

    • Founders: Jay S. Walker
    • Year Founded: 1996
    • Country: USA
  • Zendesk

    • Founders: Mikkel Svane, Morten Primdahl, and Alexander Aghassipour
    • Year Founded: 2007
    • Country: Denmark
  • Unity Technologies

    • Founders: David Helgason, Nicholas Francis, and Joachim Ante
    • Year Founded: 2004
    • Country: Denmark
  • Shopify

    • Founders: Tobias Lütke, Daniel Weinand, and Scott Lake
    • Year Founded: 2006
    • Country: Canada
  • BlackBerry Limited

    • Founder: Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin
    • Year Founded: 1984
    • Country: Canada
  • OpenText

    • Founders: Frank Tompa
    • Year Founded: 1991
    • Country: Canada
  • RIM (Research In Motion)

    • Founders: Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin
    • Year Founded: 1984
    • Country: Canada
  • PointClickCare

    • Founders: Mike Wessinger and Dave Wessinger
    • Year Founded: 1995
    • Country: Canada
  • Nuance Communications

    • Founders: Paul Ricci
    • Year Founded: 1992
    • Country: USA
  • Autodesk
    • Founders: John Walker, Dan Drake, and Paul Syverson
    • Year Founded: 1982
    • Country: USA
  • Cerner Corporation

    • Founders: Neal Patterson, Cliff Illig, and Paul Gorup
    • Year Founded: 1979
    • Country: USA
  • ServiceNow

    • Founders: Fred Luddy
    • Year Founded: 2004
    • Country: USA
  • MongoDB

    • Founders: Eliot Horowitz, Dwight Merriman, and Kevin Ryan
    • Year Founded: 2007
    • Country: USA
  • Zendesk

    • Founders: Mikkel Svane, Morten Primdahl, and Alexander Aghassipour
    • Year Founded: 2007
    • Country: Denmark
  • Epicor Software

    • Founders: Neil Bush, James Mooney, and John Lewis
    • Year Founded: 1972
    • Country: USA
  • Informatica

    • Founders: Gaurav Dhillon and Diaz Nesamoney
    • Year Founded: 1993
    • Country: USA
  • Pegasystems

    • Founders: Alan Trefler
    • Year Founded: 1983
    • Country: USA
  • Cloudera

    • Founders: Christophe Bisciglia, Amr Awadallah, Jeff Hammerbacher, and Mike Olson
    • Year Founded: 2008
    • Country: USA
  • Splunk
    • Founders: Erik Swan, Rob Das, Michael Baum, and Byron Sebastian
    • Year Founded: 2003
    • Country: USA
  • Elastic N.V.
    • Founders: Shay Banon
    • Year Founded: 2012
    • Country: USA
  • Proofpoint
    • Founders: Eric Hahn
    • Year Founded: 2002
    • Country: USA
  • MicroStrategy
    • Founders: Michael J. Saylor and Sanju Bansal
    • Year Founded: 1989
    • Country: USA
  • SolarWinds
    • Founders: Donald Yonce and David Yonce
    • Year Founded: 1999
    • Country: USA
  • Alteryx
    • Founders: Dean Stoecker, Olivia Duane Adams, and Ned Harding
    • Year Founded: 1997
    • Country: USA
  • Ansys
    • Founders: John Swanson
    • Year Founded: 1970
    • Country: USA
  • PTC
    • Founders: Samuel P. Geisberg, Aron K. Nelson, and Samuel M. Geisberg
    • Year Founded: 1985
    • Country: USA
  • Workiva
    • Founders: Matthew Rizai and Martin Vanderploeg
    • Year Founded: 2008
    • Country: USA
  • Zscaler
    • Founders: Jay Chaudhry and K. Kailash
    • Year Founded: 2008
    • Country: USA
  • Twilio – Founders: Jeff Lawson, Evan Cooke, and John Wolthuis – Year Founded: 2008 – Country: USA

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