Billion dollar companies founded by immigrants
Unicorns are startups and companies worth over one billion dollars. These unicorns were founded by immigrants to the United States — including Robinhood, Zoom, Discord, Peloton, Stripe, Gusto, and Uber.
Thanks to Shikhar Sachdev of Immigrant Valley for sharing this list.
Data management for global enterprise customers
Ash Ashutosh
🇮🇳 India
$1.1B
2009
Waltham, MA
Provides credit to consumers
Max Levchin
🇺🇦 Ukraine
$1.8B
2011
San Francisco, CA
Provides software for corporate planning
Michael Gould, Guy Haddleton
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
$1.4B
2006
San Francisco, CA
Commerce platform for selling cloud services
Nicolas Desmarais, Daniel Saks
🇨🇦 Canada
$1.1B
2009
San Francisco, CA
Software built on the salesforce platform
Kirk Krappe
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
$1.4B
2012
San Mateo, CA
Online consumer credit and technology for financial companies
Paul Zhang, Al Goldstein, John Sun
🇨🇳 China
$2B
2012
Chicago, IL
Global network for websites
Michelle Zatlyn
🇨🇦 Canada
$1B
2009
San Francisco, CA
Technology driven real estate platform
Ugo Di Girolamo, Ori Allon
🇮🇹 Italy
$2.2B
2012
New York, NY
Consumer finance and credit
Kenneth Lin
🇨🇳 China
$3.5B
2007
San Francisco, CA
Cybersecurity
Dmitri Alperovitch
🇷🇺 Russia
$3B
2011
Irvine, CA
Cybersecurity
Yossi Naar
🇮🇱 Israel
$1B
2012
Boston, MA
Gaming communication
Stanislav Vishnevskiy
🇺🇦 Ukraine
$1.6B
2012
San Francisco, CA
Self service ticketing platform for events
Renaud Visage
🇫🇷 France
$1B
2009
San Francisco, CA
Software for organizing information and note taking
Stepan Pachikov
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
$1B
2004
Redwood City, CA
Fantasy sports
Lesley Eccles, Nigel Eccles, Tom Griffiths
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
$1.3B
2011
New York, NY
Designs custom microbes
Barry Canton
🇮🇪 Ireland
$1.0B
2008
Boston, MA
Automates human resources functions, build company culture
Tomer London
🇮🇱 Israel
$1.1B
2011
San Francisco, Ca
Platform for home modeling and redesign
Alon Cohen, Adi Tatarko
🇮🇱 Israel
$4B
2009
Palo Alto, CA
Data protection and storage
Moshe Yanai
🇮🇱 Israel
$1.6B
2010
Needham, MA
Internet based grocery delivery
Apoorva Mehta
🇨🇦 Canada
$4.2B
2012
San Francisco, CA
Technology to connect people via private air travel
Sergey Petrossov
🇷🇺 Russia
$1.6B
2012
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Software to help companies better serve people
Borge Hald
🇳🇴 Norway
$1.3B
2000
Palo Alto, CA
Developer of drugs with messenger RNA
Derrick Rossi, Noubar Afeyan
🇨🇦 Canada
$7B
2009
Cambridge, MA
Big data and analytics solutions for companies
Dhiraj Rajaram
🇮🇳 India
$1.5B
2004
Northbrook, IL
Online classifieds
Arean van Veelen
🇳🇱 Netherlands
$1.3B
2011
Bellevue, WA
Health Insurance
Mario Schlosser
🇩🇪 Germany
$2.7B
2012
New York, NY
Big data analytics
Peter Thiel
🇩🇪 Germany
20B
2004
Palo Alto, CA
Technology for group fitness
Yony Feng
🇨🇳 China
$1.3B
2012
New York, NY
Products and services for managing patient health
Andrew Thompson
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
$1.1B
2001
Redwood City, CA
LiDAR sensors and software
Louay Eldada, Tianyue Yu
🇱🇧 Lebanon
$1.6B
2012
Sunnyvale, CA
Stock brokerage
Vlad Tenev
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
$5.6B
2012
Palo Alto, CA
Cloud data storage and management
Arvind Jain, Bipul Sinha, Arvind Nithrakashyap, Soham Mazumdar
🇮🇳 India
$1.3B
2004
Palo Alto, CA
Team Messaging
Stewart Butterfield, Cal Henderson, Sergei Mourachov
🇨🇦 Canada
$7.1B
2009
San Francisco, CA
Launches rockets into space
Elon Musk
🇿🇦 South Africa
$21B
2002
Hawthorne, CA
Social media software platform
Ragy Thomas
🇮🇳 India
$1.8B
2011
New York, NY
Digital payments company
John Collison, Patrick Collison
🇮🇪 Ireland
$20.0B
2009
San Francisco, CA
Integrated Messaging Platform
David Gurle
🇫🇷 France
$1.0B
2014
Palo Alto, CA
Mobile messaging service
Eric Setton, Uri Raz
🇫🇷 France
$1.0B
2009
Mountain View, CA
IT Security and Systems Management
David Hindawi
🇮🇶 Iraq
$3.5B
2007
Emeryville, CA
Ridesharing
Garrett Camp
🇨🇦 Canada
$72B
2009
San Francisco, CA
Online education company
Sebastian Thrun
🇩🇪 Germany
$1.0B
2011
Palo Alto, CA
Dynamic glass
Paul Nguyen
🇻🇳 Vietnam
$1.1B
2007
Milpitas, CA
Online prescription glasses
David Gilboa
🇸🇪 Sweden
$1.2B
2009
New York, NY
Mobile shopping
Peter Szulczewski, Danny Zhang
🇨🇦 Canada
$4.3B
2012
San Francisco, CA
Software for HR
Laks Srini
🇮🇳 India
$2.0B
2013
San Francisco, CA
Online scheduling service for medical care
Oliver Kharraz
🇩🇪 Germany
$1.8B
2007
New York, NY
Cloud platform for audio and video conferencing
Eric Yuan
🇨🇳 China
$1B
2014
San Jose, CA
Autonomous vehicles
Tim Kentley Khay
🇦🇺 Australia
$3.2B
2014
Palo Alto, CA
Application performance management
Jyoti Bansal
🇮🇳 India
$3.7B, Acquired by Cisco
2008
San Francisco, CA
Cloud-based software for online advertising
Mike Nolet
🇳🇱 Netherlands
$1B, Acquired by AT&T
2007
New York, NY
Power generation
KR Sridhar
🇮🇳 India
$3B
2001
Sunnyvale, CA
Platform for data management and software
Amr Awadallah
🇪🇬 Egypt
$2.2B
2008
Palo Alto, CA
Provider of technology to banks and others for consumer loans
David Zalik
🇮🇱 Israel
$2.9B
2006
Atlanta, GA
Cloud based platform for the internet
Jahangir Mohammed
🇮🇳 India
$1.4B, Acquired by Cisco
2004
Santa Clara, CA
Integration platform for connection applications
Ross Mason
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
$6.5B, Acquired by Cisco
2003
San Francisco, CA
Solutions for enterprise data centers
Mohit Aron, Dheeraj Pandey, Ajeet Singh
🇮🇳 India
$2B
2004
San Jose, CA
Products directed at gamers
Min-Liang Tan
🇸🇬 Singapore
$1B
2005
Irvine, CA
Computer and network security
Jay Caudhry
🇮🇳 India
$1B
2007
San Jose, CA