swyxio / alumni-startups

startups by alums of bigname startups

alumni-startups

personal list of dev tool startups by alums of bigname startups. trying to form a thesis about how alumni startups form/cluster and what they are good at.

Uber

• Temporal (Workflow engine): https://temporal.io
• Chronosphere (O11y platform): https://chronosphere.io/
• Tecton.ai: (ML feature store - Michelangelo)
  • https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/28/tecton-ai-emerges-from-stealth-with-20m-series-a-to-build-operational-machine-learning-platform/
  • https://a16z.com/2020/04/28/investing-in-tecton/
• Predibase (Uber Ludwig): https://twitter.com/w4nderlus7/status/1524790428100272145
• https://medium.com/predibase/introducing-predibase-the-enterprise-declarative-machine-learning-platform-10e2a388d465
• Trunk (linting): https://trunk.io/
• Mobile.dev (Mobile dev platform) https://www.mobile.dev/

https://twitter.com/dharosaurus/status/1502048592130945024?s=21

Lyft

• RideOS (cloud for autonomous vehicles): https://angel.co/company/rideos
• Stemma (Amundsen - data discovery): https://www.stemma.ai/about
• Union (Flyte) https://www.union.ai/

Facebook

see https://engineering.fb.com/2023/06/27/developer-tools/meta-developer-tools-open-source/ and hn thread

• Honeycomb (o11y): https://www.honeycomb.io/
• Rockset (rocksdb - fast sql on raw data) - https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/01/rockset-launches-out-of-stealth-with-21-5-m-investment/
• Presto -> Trino -> Starburst: SQL engine for hadoop -> anything

https://mobile.twitter.com/sebmarkbage/status/1616905510032412672?s=12&t=_aRhLI2212sARkuArtTutQ

Shopify

• Gadget (App builder): https://gadget.dev

Github

• Rewatch https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/05/rewatch-seed/
• Planetscale - Vitess as a Service

LinkedIn

• Confluent (via Kafka)
• Startree (via Pinot - in memory OLAP) - https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/29/data-analytics-startup-startree-secures-cash-to-expand-its-pinot-powered-platform/

Google

• Grok -> Sourcegraph: https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/introducing-steve-yegge
• MapReduce (Hadoop), Spanner (CockroachDB), and Zanzibar (AuthZed)

https://mobile.twitter.com/sebmarkbage/status/1616905510032412672?s=12&t=_aRhLI2212sARkuArtTutQ

Misc mafias for reference

Snap

• Metamarkets/Apache Druid - in memory OLAP
  • Rill data https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/04/rill-wants-to-rethink-bi-dashboards-with-embedded-database-and-instant-ux/
  • Imply https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/17/real-time-database-startup-imply-reaches-unicorn-status-with-100m-infusion/

Stripe

• Watershed Climate

Amazon

• https://www.quora.com/Which-startups-have-been-founded-by-ex-Amazon-employees
• Instacart
• Twilio

Paypal

• https://twitter.com/mt_capital1/status/1508092628151291910?s=21