USA = Many Highly Valued Private Tech Companies Founded By… 1st Generation Immigrants Company Founder / Country of Valuation Company Founder / Country of Valuation Co-Founder Origin ($B) Co-Founder Origin ($B) WeWork Adam Neumann Israel $47B Crowdstrike Dmitri Alperovitch Russia $3B SpaceX Elon Musk South Africa 31 Affirm Max Levchin Ukraine 3 John Collison Ali Ghodsi Sweden Stripe Ireland 23 Databricks Matei Zaharia Romania 3 Patrick Collison Ion Stoica Romania Palantir Peter Thiel Germany 21 Jiajun Zhu China Epic Games Mark Rein Canada 15 Nuro Dave Ferguson New Zealand 3 DoorDash Tony Xu China 13 Ankur Kothari India Wish Peter Szulczewski Canada 9 Automation Anywhere Mihir Shukla India 3 Danny Zhang Neeti Metha Shukia India Instacart Apoorva Mehta India 8 Rushabh Parm India Stewart Butterfield Canada Confluent Jun Rao China 3 Slack Russia 7 Neha Narkhede India Serguei Mourachov Roblox David Baszucki Canada 2 Cal Henderson UK Medallia Borge Hald Norway 2 UiPath* Daniel Dines Romania 7 Lime Toby Sun China 2 Marius Tirca Brad Bao Tanium David Hindawi Iraq 7 Zume Pizza Alex Garden Canada 2 David Helgason Iceland Gusto TomerLondon Israel 2 Unity Technologies Nicholas Francis Denmark 6 Lemonade Shai Wininger Israel 2 Germany Daniel Schreiber Joachim Ante LegalZoom Brian Lee South Korea 2 Robinhood Baiju Bhatt India 6 Al Goldstein Uzbekistan Vlad Tenev Bulgaria Avant John Sun China 2 Compass Ori Allon Israel 4 Paul Zhang China Credit Karma Kenneth Lin China 4 Apttus Krik Krappe UK 2 Adi Tatarko Postmates Bastian Lehmann Germany 2 Houzz Israel 4 Sprinklr Ragy Thomas India 2 Alon Cohen Cloudflare Michelle Zatlyn Canada 2 Marcin Zukowski Netherlands Carta Manu Kumar India 2 Snowflake Benoit Dageville France 4 ZocDoc Oliver Kharraz Germany 2 Thierry Cruanes France Warby Parker Dave Gilboa Sweden 2 Bipul Sinha India Carbon3D Alex Ermoshkin Russia 2 Arvind Nithrakashyap India Pony.ai James Peng China 2 Rubrik India 3 Tiancheng Lo Arvind Jain Ara Mahdessian Iran Soham Mazumdar India ServiceTitan VaheKuzoyan Armenia 2 Zoox Tim Kentley-Klay Australia 3 Segment Ilya Volodarsky Russia 2 Oscar Health Mario Schlosser Germany 3 Quanergy Tianyue Yu China 2 Source for Valuation & Founders Backgrounds: Based on analysis by Pitchbook, Wall Street Journal, CB Insights, Forbes, Business Insider, & the National Foundation for American Policy. *UiPath is headquartered in New York, NY but was originally founded in Romania. Internet Trends 261 2019