List of companies founded by UC Berkeley alumni

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This is a list of companies founded by University of California, Berkeley alumni, including attendees who enrolled in degree-programs at Berkeley but did not graduate. This list is not exhaustive, as it only includes notable companies of which the founding and development history is well recorded by reliable sources. In particular, subsidiaries are listed with their owners in parentheses.

UC Berkeley has often been cited as one of the leading universities worldwide in producing entrepreneurs and attracting funding for start-up companies.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Its alumni and faculty have founded a large number of companies, and its degrees are among the most valuable in Silicon Valley.[1][7][8][9][10]

According to PitchBook, from 2006 to 2017, Berkeley produced 1,089 company founders as alumni or current students, second only to Stanford University in the world; and these founders created 961 companies, more than any other university in the world.[11][12]

In this list, founders of a company which merged with other companies to form a new company are counted as founders of the new company. However, founders of a company which later dissolved into several successor companies are not counted as founders of those successor companies; this same rule applies to spin-off companies. Finally, a defunct company is a company that had stopped functioning completely (e.g., bankrupt) without dissolving, merging or being acquired.

Top companies by revenues[edit]

Fortune Global 500 (2017)[edit]

This list shows companies in Fortune Global 500 founded or co-founded by UC Berkeley alumni. The cut-off revenue for 2017 Fortune Global 500 companies is $21,609M in 2016.[13]

*: Merger of different companies, at least one of which was founded by UC Berkeley alumni.

Fortune 1000 (2017)[edit]

This list shows companies in Fortune 1000 (only for companies within the U.S.) founded or co-founded by UC Berkeley alumni. The cut-off revenue for 2017 Fortune 1000 companies is $1,791M in 2016.[14]

Company Fortune 1000

(2017)[14]

 Revenue in US$ millions

(2016)[14]

 Type Category Year founded Comments
1 Apple 3 215,639 Public Technology 1976
2 Intel 47 59,387 Public Semiconductor 1968
3 American International Group (AIG) 55 52,367 Public Finance 1919
4 Morgan Stanley* 76 37,949 Public Finance 1924 (Dean Witter & Co.)
5 Gap Inc. 178 15,516 Public Clothing 1969
6 eBay 310 8,979 Public Technology 1995
7 Tesla 383 7,000 Public Automative 2003
8 Activision Blizzard* 406 6,608 Public Video game 1979 (Activision)
9 NetApp 468 5,546 Public Technology 1992
10 Bio-Rad Laboratories 917 2,068 Public Medical 1952
11 Autodesk 928 2,031 Public Software 1982
12 Cadence Design Systems* 992 1,816 Public Software 1983 (Solomon Design Automation)

*: Merger of different companies, at least one of which was founded by Berkeley alumni.

Former Fortune-listed companies[edit]

For each company, only the latest rankings (up to three years) are shown in this list.

Company Fortune Global 500 Fortune 1000 Type Category Year founded
1 Sun Microsystems – – – 204 (2010) 187 (2009) 184 (2008)[15] Acquired Technology 1982
2 SanDisk – – – 464 (2016) 408 (2015) 422 (2014)[16] Acquired Technology 1988
3 Bay Networks* – – – 573 (1999) 603 (1998) 600 (1997)[17] Defunct Network hardware 1985 (SynOptics)
4 UTStarcom* – – – 782 (2008) 613 (2006) 629 (2005)[18] Public Semiconductor 1991 (Unitech)
5 LSI Corporation – – – 870 (2014) 808 (2013) 852 (2012)[19] Acquired Semiconductor 1981
6 Fairchild Semiconductor – – – 984 (2008) 963 (2007) 886 (2005)[20] Acquired Semiconductor 1957

*: Merger of different companies, at least one of which was founded by Berkeley alumni.

Timeline[edit]

Index[edit]

This index also contains companies listed in section “Notable defunct & dissolved”.

Year 2000–present[edit]

Year 1980–1999[edit]

Company Type Stock Category Year founded Total founders Founder/co-founder from Berkeley
Advent Software (SS&C Technologies) Financial software 1983 2[100]
  1. Stephanie DiMarco (B.S.)[101]
  2. Steve Strand (B.S.)[102]
Alexa Internet (NASDAQ: AMZN) Web analytics 1996 2[103]
  1. Co-founder Bruce Gilliat (Unknown)[104]
Alta Partners Private Venture capital 1996 4[105]
  1. Co-founder Garrett Gruener (M.S.)[106][107]
Apache Software Foundation Non-profit Technology 1999 Unknown
  1. Co-founder Brian Behlendorf (B.A.)[108]
  2. Co-founder Sameer Parekh (B.A.)[109]
Ask.com/Ask Jeeves (NASDAQ: IAC) Web search 1996 2[110][111]
  1. Garrett Gruener (M.S.)[106][107]
  2. David Warthen (graduate attendee)[112]
Atheros Communications (NASDAQ: QCOM) Network communications 1998 2[113][114]
  1. Co-founder Teresa H. Meng (M.S., Ph.D.)[115]
Autodesk Public NASDAQ: ADSK Software 1982 2[116]
  1. Co-founder Dan Drake (M.S.)[7][117][118]
Barra Inc.

/MSCI Barra

(NYSE: MSCI) Stock index 1975[119] 2[120]
  1. Co-founder Andrew Rudd (M.S., M.B.A., Ph.D.)[121]
Blue Nile Private Luxury retail 1999 2[citation needed]
  1. Co-founder Ben Elowitz (B.A., B.S.)[93]
Bluemercury (NYSE: M) Cosmetics 1999 2[122]
  1. Co-founder Marla Malcolm Beck (B.A.)[122]
Citrix Online/Expertcity Inc.

—> LogMeIn

—> Public (merged) NASDAQ: LOGM Software 1997 (Expertcity) 3 (Expertcity)
  1. Co-founder Klaus Schauser (Ph.D.)[123]
CollabNet Private Cloud computing 1999 2[124]
  1. Co-founder Brian Behlendorf (B.A.)[108]
Computervision (NASDAQ: PTC) Software 1985 2[125]
  1. Co-founder Martin Allen (B.S.)[126]
Connectix (NASDAQ: MSFT) Software 1988 3[127]
  1. Co-founder Bonnie Fought (J.D)[128]
Dahon Private Bicycle 1982 1[129]
  1. David T. Hon (B.A.)[130]
Digidesign/Avid Audio (NASDAQ: AVID) Audio 1984 2[131]
  1. Peter Gotcher (B.A.)[132]
  2. Evan Brooks (B.S.)[133][134]
eBay Public NASDAQ: EBAY Internet/technology 1995 1[135]
  1. Pierre Omidyar (undergraduate attendee)[136][137]
Extreme Networks Public NASDAQ: EXTR Networking/technology 1996 3[138]
  1. Co-founder Gordon Stitt (M.B.A.)[139]
Hellman & Friedman Private Private equity 1984 2[140]
  1. Co-founder Warren Hellman (B.A.)[140]
HTC Corportion Public TPE: 2498 Telecommunication 1997 3[141]
  1. Co-founder Cher Wang (B.A., M.A.)[142][143]
InFocus (Image Holdings Corp.) Electronics 1986 2[144]
  1. Co-founder Paul Gulick (B.S.)[145]
Informix Corporation

/IBM Informix

(NYSE: IBM) Software 1980 1[146]
  1. Roger J. Sippl (B.S.)[147]
Inktomi (NASDAQ: YHOO) Software 1996 2[148]
  1. Eric Brewer (B.S.)[149]
  2. Paul Gauthier (graduate attendee)[148]
Lattice Semiconductor Public NASDAQ: LSCC Semiconductor 1983 3[150]
  1. Co-founder Norm Winningstad (B.S.)[151]
  2. Co-founder Rahul Sud (M.S.)[152]
Legalzoom Private Legal services 1999[153] 3[154]
  1. Co-founder Brian P. Y. Liu (B.S.)[155]
LoopNet (NASDAQ: CSGP) Technology 1995 1[156]
  1. Dennis DeAndre (B.S.)[157]
LSI Logic (NASDQA: AVGO) Semiconductor 1981 4[158]
  1. Co-founder Robert Walker (B.S.)[159]
Macsyma, Inc. (Symbolics) Software 1992 2[160]
  1. Co-founder Richard Petti (Ph.D.)[161]
Marvell Technology Group Public NASDAQ: MRVL Semiconductor 1995 2[162]
  1. Sehat Sutardja (M.S., Ph.D.)[163]
  2. Weili Dai (B.S.)[164]
MoveOn.org Non-profit Petition website 1998 2[165]
  1. Co-founder Joan Blades (B.A.)[166]
NetApp Public NASDAQ: NTAP Technology 1992 2[167][168]
  1. Co-founder James Lau (B.S.)[169]
Optigon Interactive

—> TEN/Pogo.com

—> (NASDAQ: EA)

(merged)

Gaming 1996 (Optigon) 2 (Optigon)[170]
  1. Co-founder Daniel Goldman (B.A.)[171]
PF Magic (Euronext: UBI) Video game 1991 Unknown
  1. Co-founder Rob Fulop (B.S.)[172]
PowerBar (NYSE: POST) Food 1986 2[173][174]
  1. Brian Maxwell (B.A.)[173]
  2. Jennifer Maxwell (B.S.)[173]
Renaissance Technologies Private Hedge fund 1982 1[175]
  1. James Simons (Ph.D.)[175]
Rotten Tomatoes (Fandango) Review/user community 1998 3[citation needed]
  1. Patrick Y. Lee (B.A.)[176]
  2. Senh Duong (B.A.)[177]
  3. Stephen Wang (B.A.)[178]
SanDisk (NASDAQ: WDC) Technology 1988 3[179][180]
  1. Co-founder Sanjay Mehrotra (B.S., M.S.)[181]
Solomon Design Automation

—> Cadence Design Systems

—> Public (merged) NASDAQ: CDNS Software 1983 (SDA) 3 (SDA)[182]
  1. Co-founder James Solomon (B.S., M.S.)[183]
  2. Co-founder A. Richard Newton (Ph.D.)[184]
Softbank Public TYO: 9984 Finance/technology 1981 1[185]
  1. Masayoshi Son (B.A.)[186]
Sun Microsystems (NYSE: ORCL) Technology 1982 4[187]
  1. Co-founder Bill Joy (M.S.)[188]
Sybase (NYSE: SAP) Software 1984 4[189]
  1. Co-founder Robert Epstein (Ph.D.)[190][191]
  2. Co-founder Tom Haggin (Unknown)[189]
Third Point Management Private Hedge fund 1995 1[192]
  1. Daniel S. Loeb (undergraduate attendee)[193]
TPG Capital Private Private equity 1992 3
  1. William S. Price III (JD)
Unitech

—> UTStarcom

—> Public (merged) NASDAQ: UTSI Telecom 1991 (Unitech) 1 (Unitech)[194]
  1. Hongliang Lu (B.S.)[183]
Vermeer Technologies (NASDQ: MSFT) Software 1994 2[195]
  1. Co-founder Charles Ferguson (B.A.)[195]
Vimicro Private Technology 1999 2[196]
  1. Co-founder Deng Zhonghan (M.A., M.S., Ph.D.)[197]
VMware Public NYSE: VMW Software 1998 5[198][199]
  1. Co-founder Diane Greene (M.S.)[200]
  2. Co-founder Mendel Rosenblum (M.S., Ph.D.)[201]
  3. Co-founder Edward Wang (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.)[200]
Wind River Systems (NASDAQ: INTC) Software 1981 2[202][203]
  1. Co-founder David Wilner (B.S.)[204]

Year 1960–1979[edit]

Before 1960[edit]

Notable defunct & dissolved[edit]

See also[edit]

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