The LinkedIn Mafia

This week we cover the top 50 startups founded by former employees of Linkedin, including rising stars.
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In our weekly tech mafia series we cover the biggest tech mafias in Silicon Valley and beyond, taking a closer look at what companies former employees have started, how much money they’ve raised, and who their investors are.
260
Companies founded
$8.4M
Total money raised
What is a tech mafia?
Disruptive startups like PayPal have produced a line of ex employees who go on to start their own influential startups. For example, employees who worked at PayPal went on to found companies like LinkedIn and YouTube.

Below is a breakdown of the top movers and shakers, followed by the rising stars of the Linkedin Mafia. You'll recognize some popular names like SuperHuman, Color, and Inflection AI.
Full list of companies covered
Karma
Check
InflectionAI
Blavity
Bicycle Health
Path
OpenLattice
OpenStore
AgentSync
Truepill
MainStreet
Split Software
Personal AI
Figma
Esusu
Doorstead
TrueWork
Quartic AI
EdgeCloudLink
Jelled
Neura Health
Magical
Deep Discovery
Presdo
Samooha
Cosell
Ambient.ai
Tortoise
Curated
Ratio
Celery
Color
SuperHuman
Merge
StarTree
Holberton School
Canal
Galileo
Acryl Data
Anomalo
OuterBounds
Drip
Cricket Health
Fitbod
Accord
TrueWork
Hub
Growing IO

The LinkedIn Mafia
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Color
Founded by Nish Bhat
Color Health is a leading provider of infrastructure for durable and equitable public health.
$482M
Series E
General Catalyst
Software Engineering Intern
Superhuman
Superhuman offers a powerful and fast email experience that enables users to navigate their inbox with remarkable speed.
$108M
Series C
First Round Capital
Senior Software Engineer, LinkedIn Intro
Merge
Founded by Gil Feig
Merge integrates HR, payroll, recruiting, accounting, ticketing, and CRM platforms into a unified API.
$74.5M
Series B
NEA
Senior Software Engineer
StarTree is a cloud-based software company that empowers businesses to extract advanced insights from real-time and historical data. Founded by the core engineering team behind Apache PinotTM, StarTree's platform is utilised by leading companies such as LinkedIn, Uber, Target, Etsy, and Walmart.
$75M
Series B
GGV Capital
Senior Staff Engineer, Senior Software Engineer
Founded in 2017, Curated is an online shopping platform dedicated to humanizing the shopping experience.
$141.5M
Series C
Greylock
Senior Director Corporate Development, VP Engineering,  Head of Product
Ratio
Founded by Mason Blake
Ratio is a FinTech platform for SaaS and technology companies, offering integrated financing, payments, and predictive pricing.
$415.3M
Series C
Streamline Ventures
Marketplaces Engineering Leader
Infection AI
Founded by Reid Hoffman
Inflection AI is an artificial intelligence startup that develops personal AI chatbots.
$1.5B
Series B
Bill Gates
Executive Chairman and co-Founder
Blavity
Founded by Jonathan Jackson
Blavity Inc. builds solutions for Black consumers and enterprises. With brands like AfroTech and Blavity News, they reach over 250 million millennials per month, creating content and providing talent acquisition solutions for the Black community.
$9.4M
Series A
Google Ventures
Editor
Bicycle Health
Founded by Ankit Gupta
With prompt appointments, personalized care, and a supportive community, Bicycle Health empowers patients to overcome addiction, achieve positive outcomes, and build healthier lives.
$87.3M
Series B
SignalFire
Principal Product Manager, Connectec Enterprise
Path
Founded by Gabriel Diop
Path is a healthtech company dedicated to making mental health care work for everyone.
$110.9M
Series B
Upfront Ventures
Sales Solution Specialist
OpenLattice
Founded by Hristo Oskov
OpenLattice is helping tackle mass incarceration and the opioid epidemic by enabling state and local governments to implement interventions based on data driven workflows deployed against structured data from across government systems.
$7.6M
Seris A
Basis Set Ventures
Senior Software Engineer
Tortoise
Tortoise is a retail automation startup based in Mountain View, CA.
$11.1M
Seed
TA Ventures
Product Management
OpenStore
Founded by Keith Rabois
OpenStore's mission is to provide life-changing liquidity to ecommerce entrepreneurs.
$137M
Series B
Lux Capital
Vice President, Business & Corporate Development
AgentSync revolutionizes insurance infrastructure by seamlessly connecting carriers, agencies, MGAs, and producers.
$111.1M
Series B
Tiger Global
Manager, Global Sales Strategy
Truepill
Founded by Sid Viswanathan
Truepill is a consumer healthcare company integrating telehealth and pharmacy systems, offering partners innovative solutions for convenient and accessible care.
$255.4M
Series D
Y Combinator
Product Manager
MainStreet
Founded by Jackson Moses
MainStreet simplifies the process of claiming startup-friendly R&D tax credits.
$64.7M
Series B
SignalFire
Business Leadership Program
Ambient.ai
Founded by Vikesh Khanna
Ambient.ai leverages computer vision and AI to transform enterprise security operations.
$52.1M
Series A
Y Combinator
Software Engineering Intern
Split Software
Founded by Adil Aijaz
Split is a feature delivery platform based in Redwood City, California.
$109.8M
Series D
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Figma
Founded by Dylan Field
Figma is a powerful design platform that empowers teams to collaborate and create products together.
$333.4M
Series E
Greylock
Data Analytics Intern
Ensusu
Founded by Samir Goel
Esusu promotes financial health by reporting rental data for credit building and optimizing property performance.
$145M
Series B
Sinai Ventures
Sales Strategy & Operations: Europe, Middle Easy & Africa
Doorstead
Founded by Bernard Liang
Doorstead, founded by a team from Uber and Y Combinator, revolutionizes property management with "iRenting."
$37.3M
Series B
M13
Senior Software Engineer
Canal
Founded by Clay Schubiner
Canal is a distributed commerce platform that facilitates the retail or purchase of any product online.
$27M
Series A
Forerunner Ventures
Software Engineering Intern
Galileo
Founded by Atindriyo Sanyal
Galileo is the leading ML data intelligence platform for data scientists handling unstructured data, which accounts for over 80% of the world's data.
$23.1M
Series A
Battery Ventures
Software Engineering - Intern
Acryl Data provides an enterprise-grade DataHub platform that offers a seamless and user-friendly experience for organizations to access and utilize their data efficiently.
$30M
Series A
8VC
Senior Software Engineer, Principal Staff Software Engineer
Anomalo
Founded by Elliot Shmukler
Anomalo allows users to continuously inspect and validate the data coming into their warehouses.
$39M
Series A
Foundation Caital
Senior Director, Product Management
Outerbounds
Founded by Savin Goyal
Outerbounds is dedicated to building a modern and human-centric infrastructure stack for machine learning.
$24.3M
Series A
Foundation Capital
Software Engineer
Drip
Drip provides the thrill of live commerce to NFTs, and physical collectibles.
$28.5M
Series A
Kindred Ventures
Associate, Strategy and Operations
Cricket Health
Cricket Health is dedicated to empowering individuals with kidney disease to live fulfilling lives.
$111.1M
Series B
First Round Capital
Managing Director and VP, Business Operations
Accord
Founded by Wayne Pan
Accord is a Sales Execution Platform empowering over 100 GTM teams to achieve consistent deal execution.
$17M
Series A
Y Combinator
Director of Engineering
Truework is a one-stop platform that helps banks, lenders, and others verify income and employment.
$118.9
Series C
Sequoia Capital
Senior Product Manager, Product & Engineering Manager
KarmaCheck
Founded by Eric Ly
KarmaCheck has disrupted traditional background checks by leveraging technology and AI. Real-time, actionable notifications empower quick hiring decisions, transforming the way background checks are conducted in the industry.
$19.2M
Series A
Index Ventures
Co-Founder
Samooha
Samooha, based in Los Altos Hills, is a software development company that focuses on secure data collaboration for enterprises.
$12.5M
Series A
Altimeter Capital
Product
Quartic.ai
Founded by Pranav Prakash
Quartic.ai's Smart Industry platform empowers process manufacturing industries with AI and IIoT, enabling digital transformation and increased productivity.
$12M
Series A
Celesta Capital
Senior Software Engineer
Hub
Founded by Eric Ly
Hub is a blockchain based trust protocol that allows people to earn and carry their reputation data across Internet.
$20M
Seed
DCVC
Co-Founder
GrowingIO is a leading provider of comprehensive digital growth solutions in China. They offer products and consulting services, including customer data platforms, advertising and product analysis, and intelligent operations, to help businesses enhance their data-driven capabilities and achieve better growth in their digital transformation journey.
$50M
Series B
Greylock
Director, Senior Manager, Business Analytics
Holberton School
Founded by Sylvain Kalache
Holberton School is an alternative to college that focuses on project-based training for aspiring software engineers. It offers programs to train individuals to become full-stack software engineers, preparing them for careers in the tech industry.
$32.5M
Series B
Redpoint
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Magical
Founded by Harpaul Sambhi
Magical is a top productivity app based in San Francisco that automates repetitive tasks, saving users over 7 hours per week.
$41M
Series A
Bain Capital Ventures
Product Management
Fitbod
Fitbod promotes lifelong fitness, using advanced technology to adapt workouts to users' abilities and goals.
$4.7M
Series B
Pear VC
Senior User Experience Designer
EdgeCloudLink
Founded by Yuval Bachar
ECL is pioneering a new category of data centres by introducing the world's first fully-sustainable, hydrogen-powered, off-grid data centre-as-a-service. They provide IT services and consulting globally, offering environmentally friendly and efficient data centre solutions.
$10M
Seed
Molex Ventures
Principal Engineer, Global Data Center Infrastructure Architecture and Strategy
Jelled
Founded by Ruslan Belkin
Jelled is an upcoming AI-first product designed specifically for companies. Based in Palo Alto, California, Jelled aims to provide a new kind of software development solution that prioritizes artificial intelligence technology.
$4.5M
Seed
Accel Partners
Sr. Director of Engineering, Content and Community Products
Neura Health
Neura Health provides a patient-focused benefits solution for chronic neurological conditions.
$10.3M
Seed
Norwest Venture Partners
Senior Product Manager, Learn to Code
Deep Discovery
Founded by Russell Jurney
Deep Discovery is an AI system for fighting global corruption.
$2.3M
Seed
Xfund
Senior Data Scientist
CoSell, based in Austin, Texas, is a software development company that specializes in unlocking the power of relationship-led growth. They provide a next-generation channel for go-to-market (GTM) teams, enabling them to leverage relationships to drive business growth.
$2M
Seed
PivotNorth Capital
Director of Corporate Sales,  Head of SMB Sales
Celery
Founded by Peter Shih
Celery is a versatile pre-order platform that helps businesses bring their products to market.
$2.3M
Seed
Y Combinator
Lead iPhone Developer
Personal.ai
Founded by Sharon Zhang
Personal.ai creates a personal AI that acts as a digital encyclopedia of your life, based on your individual data.
$8.4M
Seed
Village Global
Engineering Manager - Applied Sciences (Glint)