Poets&Quants' Top 100 MBA Startups Of 2023

Columbia Business School

P&Q’s 2023 100 Top Funded MBA Startups (26-50)
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
26	Arta Finance	$90.00	David Shapiro	Columbia Business School	Finance	2021	Mountain View, California
27	Foodology, Inc	$86.50	Juan Azuero, Daniela Izquierdo	Harvard Business School	Food & Beverage	2019	Bogotá, Colombia
28	Mitra Chem	$80.00	Vivas Kumar	Stanford GSB	Battery, Renewable Energy	2021	Palo Alto, California
29	True Footage	$70.00	John Liss	Harvard Business School	Real Estate	2019	Seattle, Washington
30	Chord	$69.25	Shabdha Chigurupati	Stanford GSB	Personal Products, Internet Retail	2019	Lahore, Pakistan
31	Spot.ai	$64.00	Sud Bhatija, Rish Gupta, Tanuj Thapliyal	Stanford GSB	AI, Enterprise Software	2018	Los Altos, California
32	Opontia	$62.00	Philip Johnston	Wharton	E-commerce, Brand Marketing	2021	Dubai, United Arab Emirates
33	Kocomo	$56.00	Graciela Arango	Harvard Business School	Real Estate	2021	Miami
34	Gravitiq	$55.00	Sachin Srivastava	London Business School	Healthcare	2021	New York City
35	Osmind	$55.00	Lucia Huang	Stanford GSB	Health Care	2020	San Francisco
36	Oxygen	$53.33	Hussein Ahmed	UC Berkeley Haas	Financial Services	2018	San Francisco
37	Zubale	$50.00	Sebastian Monroy, Allison Campbell	Harvard Business School	App Software, E-Commerce	2018	Mexico City
38	Daylight Community Development	$50.00	Greg Comanor, Aaron Sassounian, Sonya Falcone	UCLA Anderson	Affordable Housing	2019	West Hollywood, California
39	topi	$49.50	Charlotte Pallua	Harvard Business School	B2B, FinTech	2021	Berlin
40	Reap	$46.00	Kevin Kang	INSEAD	FinTech	2018	Hong Kong
41	Dayforward	$45.00	Mallika Khandelwal	Stanford GSB	Insurance	2019	New York City
42	Evolution IQ	$43.30	Michael Saltzman, Tomas Vykruta	Stanford GSB	AI, Computer Software	2019	New York City
43	Banyan Infrastructure	$43.17	Amanda Li	Harvard Business School	Financial Services	2018	San Francisco
44	PickUp Coffee	$40.00	Jaime González Fernández	Harvard Business School	Food & Beverage	2022	Taguig, Philippines
45	Cyble	$38.60	Beenu Arora, Manish Chachada	Columbia Business School	Cyber Security	2019	Alpharetta, Georgia
46	Draftea	$38.20	Alan Jaime Misrahi, Andreas Assad Kottner	Stanford GSB	Digital Entertainment, Fantasy Sports	2021	Mexico City
47	Hyro (Airbud)	$37.20	Israel Krush, Rom Cohen	Cornell	HealthTech	2018	New York City
48	Subject	$35.00	Mike Vilardo	UCLA Anderson	Ed Tech	2020	Los Angeles
49	Apex	$33.00	Ian Cinnaon	Stanford GSB	Space Resarch & Technology	2022	San Francisco
50	Topography Health	$27.35	Mac Parish	Stanford GSB	Health Care	2020	Wilmington, North Carolina

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P&Q’s 2023 100 Top Funded MBA Startups (26-50)