The tool that maps founder networks for any company
Enter any company or university and see the complete founder network it produced. Who spun out, how they're connected, how strong those connections are, and how much they've raised - mapped as a live visual graph. Used by VCs for deal sourcing, sales teams for warm intros, and founders looking for co-founders.
Mapping founder networks is one of those things that sounds simple but is actually a massive pain. You're bouncing between LinkedIn, Crunchbase, and Google trying to piece together who came out of a company, what they built, and how they're connected and you still end up with an incomplete picture.
Alumni Finder does it in one shot. Enter any company and it instantly maps the entire founder alumni network as a visual graph.
Here's what that looks like in practice:
Type in Stripe and you'll see Daniela Amodei (Anthropic), Anurag Goel (Render), Jenn Knight (AgentSync) - all former Stripe employees who went on to raise hundreds of millions. You can see who overlapped with who, which teams they came from, and whether their connection is strong (same team, same time) or partial (same company, different era).
The graph shows:
🌐 Full founder alumni network - every founder that spun out of a company or university 🔗 Connection strength - strong overlap (same team, same tenure) vs. partial overlap (same company, different time) 💰 Funding raised - so you know who built something real 🏆 Cross-company benchmarks - compare which orgs produce the strongest founder networks side by side
A few ways people are using it:
VCs use it to source deals from specific talent pipelines - type in Palantir or Stripe and see every founder that came out, how much they've raised, and whether they overlap with your existing portfolio.
Sales teams use it to map warm intro paths into target accounts - find a former colleague who now works at the company you're trying to get into.
Founders use it to find co-founders - see who from your old company has already made the leap into startups.
Angels and scouts use it to get ahead of deal flow - spot emerging founders from strong talent pipelines before they're on everyone's radar.
Corp dev teams use it to track where talent from acquired companies landed and what they built next.
And a lot of people just use it for fun too by finding who in their alma mater have become founders!
“The tool that maps founder networks for any company”
Alumni Founder launched on Product Hunt on May 6th, 2026 and earned 188 upvotes and 23 comments, placing #7 on the daily leaderboard. Enter any company or university and see the complete founder network it produced. Who spun out, how they're connected, how strong those connections are, and how much they've raised - mapped as a live visual graph. Used by VCs for deal sourcing, sales teams for warm intros, and founders looking for co-founders.
On the analytics side, Alumni Founder competes within Venture Capital, SaaS and Tech — topics that collectively have 714.2k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Alumni Founder performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Alumni Founder?
Alumni Founder was hunted by Rohan Chaubey. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Mapping founder networks is one of those things that sounds simple but is actually a massive pain. You're bouncing between LinkedIn, Crunchbase, and Google trying to piece together who came out of a company, what they built, and how they're connected and you still end up with an incomplete picture.
Alumni Finder does it in one shot. Enter any company and it instantly maps the entire founder alumni network as a visual graph.
Here's what that looks like in practice:
Type in Stripe and you'll see Daniela Amodei (Anthropic), Anurag Goel (Render), Jenn Knight (AgentSync) - all former Stripe employees who went on to raise hundreds of millions. You can see who overlapped with who, which teams they came from, and whether their connection is strong (same team, same time) or partial (same company, different era).
The graph shows:
🌐 Full founder alumni network - every founder that spun out of a company or university
🔗 Connection strength - strong overlap (same team, same tenure) vs. partial overlap (same company, different time)
💰 Funding raised - so you know who built something real
🏆 Cross-company benchmarks - compare which orgs produce the strongest founder networks side by side
A few ways people are using it:
VCs use it to source deals from specific talent pipelines - type in Palantir or Stripe and see every founder that came out, how much they've raised, and whether they overlap with your existing portfolio.
Sales teams use it to map warm intro paths into target accounts - find a former colleague who now works at the company you're trying to get into.
Founders use it to find co-founders - see who from your old company has already made the leap into startups.
Angels and scouts use it to get ahead of deal flow - spot emerging founders from strong talent pipelines before they're on everyone's radar.
Corp dev teams use it to track where talent from acquired companies landed and what they built next.
And a lot of people just use it for fun too by finding who in their alma mater have become founders!
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