Poets&Quants | Poets&Quants' Top 100 MBA Startups

Rank	Company name	Funding (Millions)	Founder(s)	School	Description	Launch Year
1	WildFire	$450.0	Victoria Ransom, Alain Chuard	Harvard, Stanford	Social media marketing	2008
2	Viki	$200.0	Changseong Ho, Razmig Hovaghimian, Jiwon Moon	Stanford	Video streaming	2008
3	Skybox	$91.0	John Fenwick, Dan Berkenstock, Ching-Yu Hu, Julian Man	Stanford	Satellite imaging	2009
4	Karma Science	$80.0	Lee Linden, Ben Lewis	Stanford	Mobile	2011
5	Okta	$79.3	Frederic Kerrest, Todd McKinnon	MIT (Sloan)	Identity and access management	2009
6	SoFi	$77.2	James Finnigan, Mike Cagney, Daniel Macklin, Andy Carra	Stanford	Student loan refinancing	2011
7	Locu	$70.0	Rene Reinsberg, Marc Piette, Marek Olszewski, Stelios Sidiroglou-Douskos	MIT (Sloan)	Online advertising	2011
8	Counsyl	$60.2	Ramji Srinivasan, Eric Evans, Balaji Srinivansan	Stanford	Pre-pregnancy genetic testing	2008
9	Warby Parker	$55.0	Neil Blumenthal, David Gilboa, Jeffrey Raider, Andrew Hunt	U Penn (Wharton)	Eyewear	2010
10	Rent the Runway	$54.4	Jennifer Hyman, Jennifer Fleiss	Harvard	Ecommerce	2009
11	RentJuice	$40.0	David Vivero, Kunal Shah	Harvard	Rental marketing tools	2008
12	Jumei Cosmetics	$30.0	Leo Chen	Stanford	Ecommerce	2010
13	RelateIQ	$29.0	Steve Loughlin, Adam Evans	Stanford	Relationship intelligence	2011
14	Doximity	$27.8	Nate Gross, Jeff Tangney	Harvard	Online physician network	2011
15	CustomMade	$25.7	Michael Salguero, Seth Rosen	Babson (Olin)	Online marketplace	2009
16	thredUP	$23.1	James Reinhart, Chris Homer, Oliver Lubin	Harvard	Ecommerce	2009
17	Baby.com.br	$22.6	Davis Smith, Kimball Thomas	Harvard, U Penn (Wharton)	Ecommerce	2011
18	ThinkNear	$22.5	Eli Portnoy, John Hinnegan	Harvard	Mobile marketing	2011
18	Identified	$22.5	Bendan Wallace, Adeyemi Ajao	Stanford	Big data, analytics	2010
20	CloudFlare	$22.1	Mathew Prince, Michelle Zatlyn, Lee Holloway	Harvard	Website performance and security	2009
21	OsComp Systems	$22.0	Pedro Santos, Shantanu Agarwal, Emmanuel Magani	MIT (Sloan), Harvard	Natural gas	2010
22	SumUp	$20.0	Stefan Jeschonnek, Daniel Klein, Jan Deepen, Petter Made, Marc-Alexander Christ	Stanford	Mobile card payments	2011
23	42Floors	$17.7	Jason Freedman, Justin Bedecarre, James Bracey, Jon Bracy, Ben Ehmke, Aaron O’Connel, Alison Di Spaltro, Darren Nix	Darthmouth (Tuck)	Commercial real estate	2011
24	Hadapt	$17.0	Justin Borgman, Daniel Abadi, Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski	Yale	Data analysis software	2010
25	InsightSquared	$13.5	Fred Shilmover, Samuel Clemens, Bryan Stevenson	Harvard	SMB sales analytics	2010

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