Synonyms of founded

founded

verb

past tense of found

as in established

to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of

John Harvard did not actually found the university that now bears his name

Synonyms & Similar Words

• established
• pioneered
• launched
• initiated
• introduced
• created
• instituted
• began
• inaugurated
• started
• planted
• constituted
• originated
• constructed
• organized
• developed
• invented
• innovated
• authored
• set up
• conceived
• produced
• devised
• manufactured
• funded
• thought (up)
• expanded
• endowed
• financed
• concocted
• made up
• fathered
• cooked (up)
• enlarged
• arranged
• contrived
• fabricated
• refounded
• subsidized
• systematized
• relaunched
• reinstituted
• put up
• systemized
• reinitiated

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• closed (down)
• shut (up)
• abolished
• stopped
• ended
• finished
• terminated
• halted
• annulled
• phased out
• nullified
• annihilated
• rounded (off or out)
• wrapped up
• wound up

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of founded

Dentsu was founded in 1901 in Tokyo and now has a footprint spanning 120 countries and territories. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 Sep. 2026

Italian sneaker brand Hogan, part of Tod’s Group, went all out at Milan Fashion Week on Wednesday, bringing thousands of party goers together at Università Bocconi in a exhibition space that told the story of the brand, founded in 1986. — Katie Abel, Footwear News, 24 Sep. 2026

Related Articles Titled The People’s Newsroom, the installation was created with Spring/Break’s 2026 creative partner, the Slow Factory, an environmental and social justice nonprofit founded in 2012 by Celine Semaan and Collis Browne. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 24 Sep. 2026

The company also runs an offshore predictions platform, which was founded in 2020. — Ananya Chetia, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2026

Hansen founded a network called TruBlu, which has several programs including one similar to Predator. — Samantha Bergeson, Vanity Fair, 24 Sep. 2026

The platform’s shareholders also include Bongino and a venture capital firm co-founded by Vice President JD Vance. — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2026

Both capture the shrinking aperture of opportunity in a country founded on the idea of limitless possibility. — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026

Contour Circuits, founded by Secor and former graduate student Jeremy Rurup, received a $150,000 Small Business Technology Transfer contract to advance the technology. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026