The startup mafia that came out from Paypal has been well documented. I was curious to take a look at the privately held fintech startups and analyzing who might be next Paypal mafia based on startups that are led by ex-employees of the companies below.
To qualify for this list, you need to be a privately held fintech startup as of Dec 2024, that has been in existence for at least 4 years AND ex employees had to have raised at least $1M in funding for their new startup. I took at look at data from Harmonic. Here are the results of the number of startup founders who came out of the following companies:
- Stripe – 96
- Consensys – 70
- Klarna – 47
- Revolut – 47
- Addepar – 30
- Plaid – 28
- Brex – 27
- Gemini – 26
- N26 – 25
- Nubank – 20
- Gusto – 19
- Monzo – 19
- Carta – 18
- Better – 16
- Wefox – 15
- Circle – 13
- AngelList – 12
- Chime – 11
- Razorpay – 11
- Checkout – 11
- Pleo – 10
- Deel – 8
- eToro – 8
- Payoneer – 8
- Justworks – 8
- Chainalysis – 7
- Rippling – 6
- Navan – 5
- Bolt – 5
- Pilot – 4
- Remitly – 4
- Socure – 4
- Airwallex – 4
- Rapyd – 4
- Ramp – 4
- Fireblocks – 2
- Tipalti – 2
- Digital Currency Group – 2
- Lithic – 1
- Deserve – 1
- Mercury – 0
- Rho – 0
- Unit – 0
- Alloy – 0
If there are companies I should add to this list, please comment.