10 Apple alumni who founded companies
Each of these Apple alumni who founded companies worked at Apple, in engineering, product, marketing, procurement or business development roles, before starting the company they run now as founder or co-founder. A reader can learn how people who worked at Apple went on to build companies, from the founders themselves.
Professionals to explore
Ahmed Tewfik
LinkedInExperience: Founder & CEO · Tehuti AI
Ahmed Tewfik was Machine Learning Director at Apple from 2021 to 2025, and has been Founder & CEO of Tehuti AI since 2026. Ahmed Tewfik describes Tehuti AI as building an AI financial operator for consumers.
Arash Tajik
LinkedInExperience: Founder, CEO · Axomind
Arash Tajik was Manager, Camera HW Engineering at Apple from 2020 to 2024, and has been Founder, CEO of Axomind since 2025. Arash Tajik's headline describes the work at Axomind as making every factory an autonomous factory.
Austin Chen
LinkedInExperience: CEO & Co-Founder · Marlo
Austin Chen was Head of Product at Apple from 2018 to 2022, and has been CEO & Co-Founder of Marlo since 2025.
Brown Bartholomew
LinkedInExperience: CEO and Co-Founder · CAPE
Brown Bartholomew was Sr. Director of Worldwide Buzz Marketing at Apple from 2013 to 2023, and has been CEO and Co-Founder of CAPE since 2024.
Dominic Toselli
LinkedInExperience: Founder & CEO · Aron
Dominic Toselli was Head of Worldwide Logistics Procurement at Apple from 2023 to 2024, and has been Founder & CEO of Aron since 2025.
Fangchang Ma
LinkedInExperience: Co-Founder and CEO · Nuance Labs
Fangchang Ma was Research Manager at Apple from 2022 to 2024, and has been Co-Founder and CEO of Nuance Labs since 2025. Fangchang Ma describes leading researchers and engineers at Apple who developed computer vision and machine learning technologies for augmented and virtual reality applications.
Jeffrey Lai
LinkedInExperience: Co-founder & CEO · IrisGo
Jeffrey Lai was Siri Language Engineering Manager - Apple at Apple from 2015 to 2024, and has been Co-founder & CEO of IrisGo since 2025.
Kyle Macomber
LinkedInExperience: Co-founder & CEO · Bitrig
Kyle Macomber was Senior Software Engineering Manager (SwiftUI) at Apple from 2022 to 2025, and has been Co-founder & CEO of Bitrig since 2025. The profile describes Bitrig as a way to create native Swift apps by chatting with AI.
Matt Brennan
LinkedInExperience: Co-Founder & CEO · Korrin.ai
Matt Brennan was Global Director, Enterprise Business Development at Apple from 2014 to 2019, and has been Co-Founder & CEO of Korrin.ai since 2026. Matt Brennan's headline describes building the next generation of AI inference infrastructure.
Ryan Chapman
LinkedInExperience: Co-Founder and CEO · Lumio
Ryan Chapman was Senior Engineering Manager, Agent Systems at Apple from 2023 to 2025, and has been Co-Founder and CEO of Lumio since 2025. Ryan Chapman describes Lumio as building AI agents for self-storage operators.
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Match the person's role at Apple, such as engineering management, research, product or business development, to the part of the path from employee to founder you want to understand. Check when each company was started to judge how recent the person's experience of the early stage is.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01What from your work at Apple turned out to be most useful when you started your own company?
- 02How did you decide what problem your company would work on?
- 03What did you have to learn quickly that your Apple role had not prepared you for?
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About this directory
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