The McKinsey Mafia
McKinsey & Company, established in 1926 by James O. McKinsey, is a prestigious global management consulting firm.
It's known for advising on strategic, operational, and organizational issues across diverse industries.
McKinsey's approach combines rigorous analytics and a deep understanding of business dynamics. The firm has significantly influenced the corporate and public sectors, with alumni often taking up leadership roles in major companies and startups.
This legacy underscores McKinsey's enduring impact on the global business environment.
The McKinsey Mafia
The McKinsey alumni network has significantly impacted the startup world, with its members founding various unicorns (startups valued at over $1 billion) across diverse sectors.
These companies range from self-driving tech startups like Aurora Innovation, to healthcare innovators such as K Health, to financial disruptors like Wealthsimple. This diversity demonstrates the widespread influence and entrepreneurial success of McKinsey alumni in shaping contemporary business landscapes.
McKinsey alumni have raised $84 billion in funding so far, and started 1,392 companies, making them the second most affluent tech mafia group after Google.
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A list of all the amazing companies covered:
- Grab
- BeiGene
- Aurora
- Kavak
- Grail
- Oscar Health
- Compass
- Proterra
- Lyra Health
- Careem
- Warby Parker
- Rebel Foods
- GoCardless
- Pure Storage
- Color
- Accolade
- Verkada
- Cedar
- Erasca
- Sigma Computing
- Zocdoc
- InMobi
- Virta Health
- G2
- Tripledot Studios
- R1 RCM
- Afiniti
- Clumio
- Nauto
- Sidecar Health
- Moonshot Brands
- TRM Labs
- ZeroDown
- HomeLane
- Darwinbox
- Karat Financial
- NephroPlus
- Particle
- Humu
- Bright Money
- Bitmovin
- Wunder Mobility
- Inventa
- Prenuvo
- Gretel
- Celo
- HeyJobs
- Earli
- EarnUp
- Binti
- Redbubble
- InstaCarro
- Bespoke Post
- Shipwell
- BIOS
- AbleTo
- Hive
- Winnow
- Tagomi
- Arena
- LovePop
- The Org
- Two Chairs
- Nearpod
- CoverWallet
- Upwave
- prezent.ai
- Staircase
- UserGems
- Plum
- On Deck
- Akash Systems
- Increff
- Naluri Life
- Snappr
- Sleep Reset
- Level
- PropHero
- PermitFlow
- Peakflo
Founder: Hooi Ling Tan
McKinsey Role: Associate
Capital Raised: $16.5B
Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners
Stage: Public
Grab is an mobile application that provides taxi, payment, lending, and insurance services.
Founder: John Oyler
McKinsey Role: Consultant
Capital Raised: $6.8B
Investors: T.Rowe Prce
Stage: Public
BeiGene is a life sciences, biotechnology company.
Founder: Sterling Anderson
McKinsey Role: Engagement Manager
Capital Raised: $3.7B
Investors: Index Ventures
Stage: PublicAurora is building self-driving technology to operate multiple vehicle types, from freight-hauling trucks to ride-hailing passenger ones.
Founder: Carlos Garcia Ottati, Loreanne Garcia
McKinsey Role: Engagement Manager, Associate
Capital Raised: $2.4B
Investors: General Catalyst
Stage: Series E
KAVAK is an online platform that offers insight into buying and selling used cars.
Founder: Jeff Huber
McKinsey Role: Technology Consultant
Capital Raised: $2B
Investors: Sequoia China
Stage: Series D
Grail develops a pan-cancer screening test designed to detect cancers at an early stage.
Founder: Mario Schlosser
McKinsey Role: Fellow Senior Associate
Capital Raised: $1.6B
Investors: Tiger Global
Stage: Public
Oscar is a health insurance company that offers individual and family plans, medicare advantages, and small group products.
Founder: Robert Reffkin
McKinsey Role: Business Analyst – Generalist Group
Capital Raised: $1.5B
Investors: Thrive Capital
Stage: Series GCompass is a real estate technology company that provides an online platform for buying, renting, and selling real estate assets.
Founder: Jeff Granato
McKinsey Role: Senior Engagement Manager
Capital Raised: $1.2B
Investors: Greylock
Stage: Public
Proterra develops battery-electric buses that help eliminate fossil fuel dependency and reduce costs.
Founder: Bob Kocher
McKinsey Role: Partner
Capital Raised: $910.1M
Investors: Greylock
Stage: Series F
Lyra helps companies improve access to effective mental health care for their employees.
Founder: Karl Magnus Olsson, Mudassir Sheikha
McKinsey Role: Engagement Manager, Associate Partner
Capital Raised: $771.7M
Investors: Coatue
Stage: Series F
Careem develops an app that helps commuters in Dubai find cars for hire.
Founder: Neil Blumenthal
McKinsey Role: Summer Associate
Capital Raised: $535.5M
Investors: General Catalyst
Stage: Series G
Warby Parker is a lifestyle brand that offers designer eyewear while being a socially conscious business.
Founder: Jaydeep Barman
McKinsey Role: Associate Partner
Capital Raised: $564.3M
Investors: Goldman Sachs
Stage: Series F
Rebel Foods is a cloud kitchen company that operates multiple food brands and delivers food through online platforms.
Founder: Hiroki Takeuchi, Matt Robinson
McKinsey Role: Business Analysts
Capital Raised: $529.3M
Investors: Bain Capital Ventures
Stage: Series G
GoCardless helps 75,000+ businesses get paid on time. No late payments, stress, or hidden fees. Just bank-to-bank payments.
Founder: Mike Speiser
McKinsey Role: Associate
Capital Raised: $529.3M
Investors: Redpoint
Stage: Public
Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers.
Founder: Elad Gil
McKinsey Role: Consultant
Capital Raised: $482M
Investors: General Catalyst
Stage: Series E
Color is a healthcare delivery platform that offers cancer prevention, screening programs, and healthcare services for people.
Founder: J. Michael Cline
McKinsey Role: Associate
Capital Raised: $458.7M
Investors: a16z
Stage: Public
Accolade features personalized health and benefits solutions that help to improve experience, outcomes, and healthcare cost for employers.
Founder: Hans Robertson
McKinsey Role: Business Analyst
Capital Raised: $444.3M
Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners
Stage: Series D
Verkada is a cloud-based physical security platform provider helping enterprises operate safer, smarter buildings.
Founder: Florian Otto
McKinsey Role: Consultant
Capital Raised: $419.4M
Investors: Thrive Capital
Stage: Series D
Cedar is a patient payment and engagement platform for hospitals, health systems, and medical groups that elevates the patient experience.
Founder: Jonathan Lim
McKinsey Role: Consultant
Capital Raised: $400M
Investors: Invus
Stage: Public
Erasca is a developer of oncology drugs intended to provide precision oncology options.
Founder: Mike Speiser
McKinsey Role: Associate
Capital Raised: $381.3M
Investors: Snowflake Ventures
Stage: Series C
Sigma Computing is a business intelligence solution providing live access to cloud data warehouses.
Founder: Cyrus Massoumi
McKinsey Role: Engagement Manager
Capital Raised: $375.9M
Investors: Founders Fund
Stage: Series D
Zocdoc is a digital marketplace company that connects healthcare patients and doctors.
Founder: Naveen Tewari
McKinsey Role: Business Analyst
Capital Raised: $320.6M
Investors: Kleiner Perkins
Stage: Series C
InMobi develops an advertisement serving algorithm that helps in optimizing the ranking of the advertisements served on mobile phones.
Founder: Sami Inkinen
McKinsey Role: Associate Consultant
Capital Raised: $373M
Investors: Founders Fund
Stage: Series E
Virta delivers a clinically-proven treatment to reverse type 2 diabetes and other chronic metabolic diseases.
Founder: Godard Abel
McKinsey Role: Business Analyst & Associate
Capital Raised: $257.6M
Investors: Accel Partners
Stage: Series D
G2 operates a software marketplace for business organizations to research, buy, and manage their software and services.
Founder: Akin Babayigit
McKinsey Role: Business Analyst
Capital Raised: $252M
Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners
Stage: Series B
Tripledot Studios is a mobile games studio that develops casual mobile games such as solitaire app and several puzzle games.
Founder: J. Michael Cline
McKinsey Role: Associate
Capital Raised: $200M
Investors: Ascension Health
Stage: Public
R1 RCM serves as a revenue cycle management partner for hospitals and healthcare systems regardless of the payment models.
Founder: Zia Chishti
McKinsey Role: Summer Associate
Capital Raised: $200M
Investors: The Resource Group
Stage: Series E
Afiniti uses AI to transform the quality of interactions by driving better conversations.
Founder: Mike Speiser
McKinsey Role: Associate
Capital Raised: $186M
Investors: Index Ventures
Stage: Series C
Clumio automates the backup, recovery, and compliance of critical data that powers customer’s applications, insights, and AI.
Founder: Frederick Soo, Stefan Heck
McKinsey Role: Senior Associate, Director
Capital Raised: $173.9M
Investors: Greylock
Stage: Series B
Nauto is a transportation company that provides an AI-enabled fleet and driver safety tool to help detect and prevent distracted driving.
Founder: Patrick Quigley
McKinsey Role: Consultant
Capital Raised: $163M
Investors: Drive Capital
Stage: Series C
Sidecar Health is an insurtech company that offers a health insurance platform.
Founder: Craig Isakow
McKinsey Role: Business Analyst
Capital Raised: $160M
Investors: Y Combinator
Stage: Series A
Moonshot Brands acquires, operates, and grows e-commerce businesses.
Founder: Esteban Castaño, Rahul Raina
McKinsey Role: Business Analyst, Senior Business Analyst
Capital Raised: $149.9M
Investors: Bessemer Venture Partners
Stage: Series B
TRM helps financial institutions, crypto businesses and federal agencies detect and investigate crypto-related financial crimes.
Founder: Abhijeet Dwivedi
McKinsey Role: Engagement Manager
Capital Raised: $136M
Investors: Y Combinator
Stage: Debt Financing
ZeroDown is a real estate startup that focuses on providing an affordable homeownership solution.
Founder: Tanuj Choudhry
McKinsey Role: Senior Associate
Capital Raised: $125.2M
Investors: Accel Partners
Stage: Series E
HomeLane is a home interior company that provides homeowners with personalized and customized home designs.
Founder: Rohit Chennamaneni
McKinsey Role: Engagement Manager
Capital Raised: $115.9M
Investors: Sequoia Capital
Stage: Series D
Darwinbox is an end-to-end enterprise HR software that enables enterprises to automate the entire employee lifecycle in one HR platform.
Founder: Eric Wei
McKinsey Role: Consultant
Capital Raised: $115.6M
Investors: Union Square Ventures
Stage: Series B
Karat Financial offers business credit cards tailored to the needs of digital creators and influencers.
Founder: Vikram Vuppala
McKinsey Role: Senior Associate
Capital Raised: $112.4M
Investors: Bessemer Venture Partners
Stage: Series E
NephroPlus is a dialysis center network that provides dialysis, kidney stone treatment, AV Fistula surgery, and other treatments.
Founder: Zach Supalla
McKinsey Role: Management Consultant - Product Design
Capital Raised: $105.8M
Investors: Spark Capital
Stage: Series C
Particle is an integrated IoT platform that helps businesses connect, manage, and deploy software applications.
Founder: Laszlo Bock
McKinsey Role: Management Consultant
Capital Raised: $100.6M
Investors: Index Ventures
Stage: Series C
Humu is a human resource company that affects work through science and machine learning.
Founder: Avi Patchava, Petko Plachkov
McKinsey Role: Senior Engagement Manager, and Advanced Analytics Expert, Associate
Capital Raised: $93M
Investors: Sequoia Capital
Stage: Series B
Bright Money offers a personalized financial management platform to help individuals manage their finances effectively.
Founder: Stefan Lederer
McKinsey Role: Business Technology Office Fellow Consultant
Capital Raised: $87.3M
Investors: Y Combinator
Stage: Series C
Bitmovin is a multimedia technology company providing adaptive streaming video infrastructure for global digital media companies.
Founder: Gunnar Froh
McKinsey Role: Associate
Capital Raised: $81.9M
Investors: FJ Labs
Stage: Series B
Wunder Mobility is the world’s leading provider of software and hardware for scooter, bike, moped, and car sharing.
Founder: Fernando Carrasco, Marcos Salama
McKinsey Role: Senior Expert, Engagement Manager
Capital Raised: $80.4M
Investors: Founders Fund
Stage: Series B
Inventa is a wholesale marketplace that connects brands with independent retailers across Latin America.
Founder: Andrew Lacy
McKinsey Role: Consultant
Capital Raised: $70M
Investors: Felicis Ventures
Stage: Series A
Prenuvo offers whole body MRI screening - we provide deep insights for earlier detection.
Founder: Laszlo Bock
McKinsey Role: Management Consultant
Capital Raised: $67.7M
Investors: Greylock
Stage: Series B
Gretel is a multimodal synthetic data platform that leverages advanced generative AI and privacy-enhancing technologies.
Founder: Rene Reinsberg
McKinsey Role: Fellow Intern
Capital Raised: $66.5M
Investors: General Catalyst
Stage: Pre-Seed
Celo is an open platform that makes financial tools accessible to anyone with a mobile phone.
Founder: Marius Luther
McKinsey Role: Consultant
Capital Raised: $62M
Investors: Global Founders Capital
Stage: Series B
HeyJobs is a career platform matching the world's essential talent to opportunities.
Founder: Cyriac Roeding
McKinsey Role: Senior Consultant
Capital Raised: $59.9M
Investors: Menlo Ventures
Stage: Series A
Earli is a developer of cancer treatment devices designed to search for natural biomarkers.
Founder: Matthew Cooper, Nadim Homsany
McKinsey Role: Management Consultant, Engagement Manager
Capital Raised: $59.2M
Investors: Bain Capital Ventures
Stage: Series C
EarnUp is an intelligent loan payment automation.
Founder: Felicia Curcuru
McKinsey Role: Engagement Manager
Capital Raised: $57M
Investors: First Round Capital
Stage: Series B
Binti builds modern software to help every child have a safe, loving, and stable family.
Founder: Martin Hosking
McKinsey Role: Consultant
Capital Raised: $55.8M
Investors: NFX
Stage: Public
Redbubble, an online art community, features stationery, apparel, wall art, cases and skins, housewares, and bags made by artists worldwide.
Founder: Diego Fischer
McKinsey Role: Management Consulting Acting Engagement Manager
Capital Raised: $55.6M
Investors: FJ Labs
Stage: Seed
InstaCarro is a car buying and selling service in Brazil that offers a possibility of selling cars in up to one hour.
Founder: Rishi Prabhu
McKinsey Role: Junior Analyst
Capital Raised: $48.9M
Investors: Great Oaks
Stage: Series B
Bespoke is a subscription box and e-commerce shop stocked with quality finds for curious minds.
Founder: Gregory Price
McKinsey Role: Consultant
Capital Raised: $47M
Investors: Global Founders Capital
Stage: Series B
Shipwell is a freight trucking startup that provides business with automated way transport of goods and services.
Founder: Emil Hewage
McKinsey Role: Advanced Professional Degree Insight Programme
Capital Raised: $46.7M
Investors: Y Combinator
Stage: Series A
BIOS Health uses data-driven insights from the nervous system to build neural digital therapies - the next big trend in precision medicines.
Founder: Michael B. Laskoff
McKinsey Role: Senior Practice Expert
Capital Raised: $46.6M
Investors: Bain Capital Ventures
Stage: Corporate Round
AbleTo is a provider of virtual behavioral health care.
Founder: Franz Purucker, Oskar Ziegler
McKinsey Role: Strategy Consulting, Jr. Engagement Manager
Capital Raised: $43.8M
Investors: Tiger Global
Stage: Series A
Hive stores and ships products for small and medium-sized online merchants the next day.
Founder: Marc Zornes
McKinsey Role: Engagement Manager
Capital Raised: $41.9M
Investors: Novax
Stage: Series C
Winnow produces digital tools to help chefs measure, monitor, and reduce food waste.
Founder: Marc Bhargava
McKinsey Role: Business Analyst
Capital Raised: $40.7M
Investors: Founders Fund
Stage: Series A
Tagomi is a cryptocurrency trading platform that provides access to priced liquidity, low commissions, and maximized client return.
Founder: Pratap Ranade
McKinsey Role: Associate Partner
Capital Raised: $32M
Investors: Founders Fund
Stage: Series A
Arena empowers businesses across industries to make high frequency decisions fully autonomous.
Founder: Wombi Rose
McKinsey Role: Senior Associate
Capital Raised: $31.2M
Investors: Blossom Street Ventures
Stage: Series B
LovePop creates handmade intricate paper art greeting cards.
Founder: Christian Wylonis
McKinsey Role: Engagement Manager
Capital Raised: $31.1M
Investors: Sequoia Capital
Stage: Series B
The Org operates and manages an online platform that showcases public organizations.
Founder: Alex Katz
McKinsey Role: Business Analyst
Capital Raised: $31M
Investors:
Stage: Series B
Two Chairs provides high-quality psychotherapy, remotely and at thoughtfully-designed clinics.
Founder: Guido Kovalskys
McKinsey Role: Associate
Capital Raised: $30.7M
Investors: Insight Venture Partners
Stage: Series B
Nearpod is a provider of edtech platform for K-12 teachers to create interactive slides filled with videos, quizzes, and other activities.
Founder: Inaki Berenguer
McKinsey Role: Associate
Capital Raised: $28.3M
Investors: Union Square Ventures
Stage: Corporate Round
CoverWallet is an online platform that offers insurance management services to its clients.
Founder: Chris Kelly
McKinsey Role: Business Analyst
Capital Raised: $28.7M
Investors: Bloomberg Beta
Stage: Series B
Upwave is an analytics platform for brand advertising.
Founder: Rajat Mishra
McKinsey Role: Associate Partner
Capital Raised: $24.3M
Investors: Greycroft
Stage: Series A
prezent.ai is an AI-powered presentation success platform for enterprise teams.
Founder: Adam Kalamchi
McKinsey Role: Senior Business Analyst
Capital Raised: $24.1M
Investors: Bessemer Venture Partners
Stage: Debt Financing
Staircase is an API marketplace for residential mortgage.
Founder: Christian Kletzl
McKinsey Role: Summer Associate
Capital Raised: $22.4M
Investors: Y Combinator
Stage: Series A
An AI-powered solution that combines relationship data and trigger events to identify buyers who will most likely buy from you.
Founder: Abhishek Poddar
McKinsey Role: Business Analyst
Capital Raised: $20.6M
Investors: Sequoia Capital
Stage: Series A
Plum is an insurance company that offers employee healthcare and medical benefits for companies.
Founder: Chipp Norcross, Zachary Kimball
McKinsey Role: Associate, Management Consultant
Capital Raised: $20M
Investors: Founders Fund
Stage: Series A
On Deck builds a modern educational institution that unites people around the globe.
Founder: Felix Ejeckam, Ty Mitchell
McKinsey Role: Associate, Senior Manager
Capital Raised: $17.6M
Investors: Founders Fund
Stage: Series B
Akash Systems is focused on developing and supplying the next generation of communications gear for space satellites.
Founder: Nirmal Jain
McKinsey Role: Associate Principal
Capital Raised: $17M
Investors: Sequoia Capital
Stage: Series B
Increff helps retail & e-commerce brands in turning supply chain complexities into simplicity with tech-driven retail SaaS solutions.
Founder: Azran Osman-Rani, Jeremy Ting
McKinsey Role: Associate Partner, Junior Partner
Capital Raised: $14.8M
Investors: Global Founders Capital
Stage: Series B
Naluri is a digital health solution platform that predicts, prevents, and manages cardiometabolic and mental health conditions.
Founder: Matt Schiller
McKinsey Role: Consultant
Capital Raised: $13M
Investors: Y Combinator
Stage: Series A
Snappr is the one-stop-shop for visual content creation, including the largest on-demand photographer and photo editing marketplace.
Founder: Yunha Kim
McKinsey Role: Summer Intern
Capital Raised: $12.6M
Investors: Foundation Capital
Stage: Series A
Sleep Reset is a sleep program clinically proven to improve sleep. It’s the only digital program with a human sleep coach.
Founder: David Edelstein
McKinsey Role: Engagement Manager
Capital Raised: $11.7M
Investors: Techstars
Stage: Seed
Level is building the Financial Operating System for Microbusinesses
Founder: Mickael Roger
McKinsey Role: Associate Partner
Capital Raised: $6.8M
Investors: Global Founders Capital
Stage: Seed
PropHero is an online Property Investment Marketplace, powered by AI.
Founder: Francis Thumpasery
McKinsey Role: Senior Business Analyst
Capital Raised: $5.5M
Investors: Y Combinator
Stage: Seed
PermitFlow is a construction permit application and management platform for developers and general contractors.
Founder: Saurabh Chauhan
McKinsey Role: Analyst
Capital Raised: $5.1M
Investors: Y Combinator
Stage: Seed
Peakflo is simplifying business payments for SE Asia.
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