List of Kellogg/Northwestern Students Who Have Founded Companies | 317 results

Name	Description	Birthdate	Birthplace	Educated at	Founder of
Meghan Markle	Meghan Markle, also known as Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, is a former actress and member of the British royal family through her marriage to Prince Harry.	August 4, 1981	Los Angeles	Northwestern University Immaculate Heart High School (Los Angeles) Little Red Schoolhouse Northwestern University School of Communication	Archewell
Ben Thompson (writer)	Ben Thompson is a technology industry analyst, writer, and founder of Stratechery.		Wisconsin	University of Wisconsin–Madison Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University	Stratechery
Michael Horvath	Michael Horvath is the cofounder and CEO of Strava and the cofounder of Kana Software.			Northwestern University Harvard University	Kana Software Strava (company)
Aman Gupta	Aman Gupta is co-founder and chief marketing officer of Imagine Marketing Services Pvt. Ltd., doing business as BoAt.	1982	Kolkata	Kellogg School of Management Indian School of Business	BoAt (company)
Brad Flora	Brad Flora is cofounder and former CEO of Perfect Audience and is a group partner at Y Combinator.			Northwestern University Princeton University	Perfect Audience Brad, Jenny & Marc
Pharrell Williams	American musician, rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer.	April 5, 1973	Virginia Beach, Virginia	Northwestern University Princess Anne High School	‌ I Am Other
Saul Bellow	Canadian-born american writer	June 10, 1915	Lachine, Quebec	University of Wisconsin–Madison University of Chicago Northwestern University Roberto Clemente Community Academy	News from the Republic of Letters
Hugh Hefner	American magazine publisher	April 9, 1926	Chicago	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign School of the Art Institute of Chicago Northwestern University ‌ Steinmetz College Prep ‌ UIUC College of Media	‌ Playboy Enterprises
Stephen Colbert	American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor	May 13, 1964	Washington, D.C.	Northwestern University ‌ Porter-Gaud School	‌ Scripto (collaborative writing software company)
Peter George Peterson	American businessman	June 5, 1926	Kearney, Nebraska	Northwestern University University of Chicago Booth School of Business	Blackstone Group
Steve Albini	United states record engineer and rock musician	July 22, 1962	Pasadena, California	Medill School of Journalism Northwestern University Hellgate High School	Electrical Audio
Gary Kremen	American businessman	January 1, 1963	‌ Lincolnwood, Illinois	Stanford University Northwestern University Stanford Graduate School of Business Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science ‌ Niles West High School	Sociogramics LifeatMatch Clean Power Finance CrossCoin Ventures ‌ Menlo Incubator
Chick Evans	Amateur golfer	July 18, 1890	Indianapolis	Northwestern University	‌ Evans Scholars Foundation
‌ John H. Johnson	American businessman	January 19, 1918	Arkansas City, Kansas	University of Chicago Northwestern University Wendell Phillips Academy High School ‌ DuSable High School	‌ Johnson Publishing Company
Rich Skrenta	American computer programmer	January 1, 1967	Pittsburgh	Northwestern University	Blekko
Ariel Cohen (entrepreneur)	Co-founder and CEO of TripActions.			Kellogg School of Management	Navan
Michael Lazerow (entrepreneur)	Founder of Buddy Media			Northwestern University	‌ Buddy Media
Charles Horace Mayo	American physician	July 19, 1865	Rochester, Minnesota	Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	Mayo Clinic
James Schaeffer	Co-founder of Genesis Therapeutics.			Northwestern University Baylor College of Medicine	Genesis Therapeutics
Vince Leung	Product Leader at Facebook, previously founder of MentorMob			Northwestern University University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign	MentorMob
Andy Dunn	American businessman	February 20, 1979	Chicago	Stanford University Northwestern University Stanford Graduate School of Business	Bonobos (apparel) Red Swan Ventures
Pascal Kaufmann	Technology entrepreneur	March 19, 1979	Zürich	Northwestern University ETH Zurich University of Zurich	Starmind International Mindfire Starmind.ai
Gigi Levy-Weiss	Israeli businessman	January 1, 2000	Israel	Tel Aviv University Kellogg School of Management	NFX
Ben Parr	American journalist. President & Co-founder at Octane AI.	February 12, 1985	Princeton, Illinois	Northwestern University ‌ Princeton High School (Illinois)	Rostrum Capital Octane AI DominateFund AngelHack
Kunal Bahl	Indian, founder & CEO of Snapdeal	January 1, 1984	New Delhi	Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania Kellogg School of Management University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science	Snapdeal

Meghan Markle, also known as Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, is a former actress and member of the British royal family through her marriage to Prince Harry.