17 Founders Backed by Compound (2026)

Compound founders (17)

Compound founders covers 17 founders on Achira, Aifleet and Briefly Bio and 14 other companies. The most common sectors are Biotech (5), Fintech (3) and AI Infrastructure (2). Members are based in 10 cities, led by New York, NY (4), London, UK (3) and Austin, TX (2). The remaining members span Cybersecurity (1), Healthtech (1), Logistics (1), SaaS (1) and Techbio (1). Companies represented include Cycles, IMTC, Luda, Manifest, NOAT, Nowsta, Orbital Materials, Pear Bio, Pheiron, Plural Energy, Polyphron and Prime Intellect, plus 2 more. Every founder below links to a profile with their company, backers, and the filings behind each round.

• Founders listed: 17
• Companies represented: 17
• Top sector: Biotech (5 founders)
• Top location: New York, NY (4 founders)
• Sectors represented: 8
• Locations represented: 10

• Adam Silver — Plural Energy
• Alexander Häggqvist — NOAT
• Bruno Stanziale — Nowsta
• Duleek Ranatunga — Pear Bio
• Ethan Buchman — Cycles
• Harry Rickerby — Briefly Bio
• John Chodera — Achira
• Jonathan Godwin — Orbital Materials
• Josie Zayner — The Embryo Corporation
• Marc Khoury — Aifleet
• Matthew Osman — Polyphron
• Nathaniel Sokoll-Ward — Manifest
• Russell Feldman — IMTC
• Steve Martocci — SuppCo
• Thore Buergel — Pheiron
• Vijay Sundaram — Luda
• Vincent Weisser — Prime Intellect

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Narrow Compound founders

• Compound · Biotech (5 founders)
• Compound · New York, NY (4 founders)
• Compound · Fintech (3 founders)
• Compound · London, UK (3 founders)

Other founder hubs

• Correlation Ventures (31 founders)
• First Round Capital (40 founders)
• Crossbeam Venture Partners (18 founders)
• Western Technology Investment (20 founders)
• Sapphire Ventures (24 founders)
• Wellington Management (30 founders)
• True Ventures (37 founders)
• MAGIC Fund (18 founders)
• Script Capital (19 founders)
• Scale Venture Partners (23 founders)
• Goldman Sachs (29 founders)
• Google Ventures (36 founders)
• Techstars (55 founders)
• Connecticut Innovations (19 founders)
• Great Oaks Venture Capital (22 founders)
• IVP (27 founders)
• Bain Capital Ventures (34 founders)
• Khosla Ventures (48 founders)
• Thrive Capital (19 founders)
• FirstMark (21 founders)
• Liquid 2 Ventures (26 founders)
• Matrix (32 founders)
• Kleiner Perkins (45 founders)
• Lowercase Capital (18 founders)

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