Shared desks and shared classrooms made these teams: 17 of 22 companies since 2015 began at work or at school

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How co founders met table, add all important details into it — Companies 2015+

A curated set of 22 notable technology companies founded 2015–2023, each classified by the channel through which its co-founders first met. Prior workplace or venture ties lead with 9 companies (40.9%), school and student networks follow with 8 (36.4%), professional networks or assembled teams account for 4 (18.2%), and one team, Harvey, met socially (4.5%).

The 22 companies, year by year

Company	Founded ▲	Co-founders	Met via	When · where they met	How they met & before the company	Idea & turning point	Sources

Curated set of 22 notable technology companies founded 2015–2023, not a census of all companies since 2015; one row per company plus four precomputed meeting-channel aggregates. Compiled from live web sources on 2026-09-02; source quality varies and origin interviews or company pages were favoured. Blank cells mean the detail was not reliably found. OpenAI's broader 2015 founding group differs across sources; Neuralink's full-team meeting chronology is sparsely documented. Long narrative cells are shortened for space and expandable in place.

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