Poets&Quants' Top 100 MBA Startups Of 2023

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P&Q’s 2023 100 Top Funded MBA Startups (1-25)
Here are the top 25 MBA startups according to total funding raised. To qualify for this year’s list, a startup had to be founded between January 1, 2017, and December 31, 2021, and must have at least one MBA founder during that same timeframe.
2023 Rank	Startup	$$ Raised (millions)	Founder(s)	School	Industry	Year Founded	Location
1	Gorillas	$1,335.20	Sukru Dagdelen	INSEAD	Grocery Delivery	2020	Berlin
2	Capchase	$949.60	Luis Basagoiti Marqués	INSEAD	FinTech	2020	New York City
3	Xepelin	$567.00	Sebastien Kreis	UC Berkeley Haas	FinTech	2019	Mexico City
4	Steady Technologies, Inc.	$509.50	Viken Sarkissian	Columbia Business School	FinTech, InsurTech, Rental Property	2018	New York City
5	Merama	$445.00	Sujay Tyle	Harvard Business School	Consumer Goods, E-Commerce	2020	Mexico City
6	Kyte	$299.00	Ludwig Schoenack	UC Berkeley Haas	Automotive/Car sharing	2019	San Francisco
7	Ajaib	$245.22	Yada Piyajomkwan, Anderson Sumarli	Stanford GSB	FinTech	2018	Jakarta, Indonesia
8	Pathway Homes	$225.00	Kyle Ruane	UCLA Anderson	Real Estate	2021	Dallas, Texas
9	Brightline	$212.00	Giovanni Colella, Naomi Allen	Columbia Business School	Child Care, Family, Health Care, Home Health Care	2019	Palo Alto, California
10	Arc Technologies	$203.50	Raven Jiang, Nick Lombardo, Don Muir	Stanford GSB	FinTech, Saas	2021	San Francisco
11	Leyden Labs	$187.11	Koenraad Wiedhaup	Columbia Business School	Biotech, Therapeutics	2020	Amsterdam
12	Forum Brands	$178.63	Brenton Howland, Alex Kopco, Ruben Amar	Stanford GSB	E-Commerce	2020	New York City
13	MBX Biosciences	$174.90	Tim Knickerbocker	UCLA Anderson	Biotech	2019	Carmel, Indiana
14	Stride Funding	$150.70	Tess Michaels	Harvard Business School	FinTech	2018	Boston
15	Voice	$150.00	Salah Zalatimo	Columbia Business School	Internet of Things	2020	New York City
16	Properly	$149.65	Anshul Ruparell	Columbia Business School	Internet, Real Estate	2018	Toronto, Canada
17	Open Co (Brazil)	$140.00	Rafael Pereira	Columbia Business School	Consumer Lending, Financial Services, FinTech	2021	São Paulo, Brazil
18	OpenStore	$137.00	Michael Rubenstein	Columbia Business School	Business Development, E-Commerce, Internet	2021	Miami
19	Project Canary	$131.66	William Foiles	Stanford GSB	Energy, Envrionmental Engineering	2019	Denver, Colorado
20	Wrapbook	$130.60	Ali Javid	NYU Stern	FinTech	2018	New York City
21	Una Brands	$115.00	Adrian Johnston	INSEAD	Analytics	2021	Singapore
22	Renalytix AI	$106.70	James McCullough	Columbia Business School	Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Health Diagnostics, Medical Device	2018	Penarth, UK
23	Hallow	$105.00	Alex Jones	Stanford GSB	Application software	2018	Chicago
24	Revelle Aesthetics	$105.00	Earl Bright	Columbia Business School	Health Care, Medical Device	2018	Mountain View, California
25	Vannevar Labs	$91.10	Brett Granberg, Nini Moorhead	Stanford GSB	AI, Defense	2019	Palo Alto, California

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P&Q’s 2023 100 Top Funded MBA Startups (1-25)