COFOUNDER Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

cofounder

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Recent Examples of cofounder When Figma went public in July 2025, the largest selling shareholder was the Marin Community Foundation, a Bay Area nonprofit focused on affordable housing that had received about a third of cofounder Evan Wallace’s shares before the offering. — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2026 Benjamin Davis is the cofounder of Chill Subs, a platform used by over 90,000 writers to discover, track, and submit to literary magazines. — Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026 And Daphne Zohar, 56, is cofounder and CEO of Seaport Therapeutics, which is working on developing next-generation drugs for anxiety and depression. — Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 At the time, Shakur was signed to music label Death Row Records, where cofounder Knight was CEO. — Liza Esquibias, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026 Palmer Luckey is an American inventor, founder of Oculus VR, and cofounder of defense technology company Anduril Industries. — Bydavid Schepp, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Aug. 2026 Shane Legg, a DeepMind cofounder and its chief AGI scientist, will continue reporting to Hassabis, along with a wider team, according to the same person. — Billy Perrigo, Time, 6 Aug. 2026 Mitchell Zuckerman, a cofounder of Art Market Advisors and a former Sotheby’s executive, told me that executors and beneficiaries frequently choose guarantees. — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 5 Aug. 2026 In March, BioNTech announced that Sahin and his cofounder and wife Özlem Türeci, the company’s chief medical officer, would depart the company to lead a new biotech focused on developing mRNA medicines. — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 3 Aug. 2026

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Erik Tegner, a journalist and founder of the conservative publication Frontières, was confronted after leaving a bar with friends on Wednesday night.

— Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 7 Aug. 2026
Rick Doblin, the founder and president of MAPS, had identified, decades earlier, that veterans, as a sympathetic constituency, were the surest route to bipartisan support.

— Michelle Lhooq, New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2026

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The converging trends are creating opportunities and consternation for travelers, content creators, and the travel industry.

— Doug Gollan, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
And there will be more to come as announcements of athletes, creators, and industry leaders are rolled out closer to the event.

— Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2026

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