Founder Watch

Follow the people, not just the company names.

For each company we track, here's the founder or CEO who actually controls it — and their EDGAR filing footprint. Elon's SpaceX silence is one of 13 such silences. Sam Altman's OpenAI has zero direct Form D filings. Click any name to see what they've filed and what they've gone silent on.

Space
Elon Musk
Founder + CEO, SpaceX

Founded SpaceX in 2002.

CIK 0001181412
Fintech
Patrick Collison
Co-founder + CEO, Stripe

Co-founded Stripe in 2010 with his brother John.

CIK 0001691342
SaaS
Ali Ghodsi
CEO, Databricks

Led Databricks through the most aggressive Form D filing cadence of any tracked company.

CIK 0001587468
AI
Sam Altman
CEO, OpenAI

Runs the capped-profit OpenAI Global LLC under the OpenAI non-profit board.

CIK no direct
AI
Dario Amodei
CEO, Anthropic

Founded Anthropic PBC in 2021 after leaving OpenAI.

CIK no direct
SaaS
Melanie Perkins
Co-founder + CEO, Canva

Co-founded Canva in 2013.

CIK 0001556314
Consumer
Jason Citron
Co-founder + CEO, Discord

Co-founded Discord in 2015.

CIK 0001763840
SaaS
Ivan Zhao
Co-founder + CEO, Notion

Co-founded Notion Labs in 2013.

CIK 0001781814
AI
Aidan Gomez
Co-founder + CEO, Cohere

Co-founded Cohere in 2019 after Google Brain.

CIK 0001798355
AI
Brett Adcock
Founder + CEO, Figure AI

Founded Figure AI in 2022 after Archer Aviation.

CIK 0002014185
Fintech
Immad Akhund
Co-founder + CEO, Mercury

Co-founded Mercury in 2017.

CIK 0001719932
Fintech
Zach Perret
Co-founder + CEO, Plaid

Co-founded Plaid in 2013.

CIK 0001677226
Consumer
Steve Huffman
Co-founder + CEO, Reddit

Co-founded Reddit in 2005.

CIK 0001713445