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Apple

NASDAQ: AAPL

Cupertino, US · Founded 1976 · Incorporated in California · 3 known investors

Find your way into Apple

636 people in our graph share verified history with the Apple team — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Steve Abbottunlockedknows Steve Wozniak · together at University of California, Berkeley (overlapped)
×3knows the team · via University of California, Berkeley
×8knows the team · via Apple

Apple designs and manufactures consumer electronics, computing devices, and digital services including smartphones, tablets, computers, wearables, and streaming content platforms.

Founders & leadership

Apple was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne.

SJSteve Jobs
Steve JobsinCo-founder & CEOCo-founder of Apple, NeXT and Pixar
SWSteve Wozniak
Steve Wozniakin𝕏Co-founderCo-founder of Apple
RWRonald Wayne
Ronald WayneinRonald Wayne is an engineer and designer who co-founded Apple Computer with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, where he drafted the initial partnership agreement and designed the company's first logo. Prior to Apple, he worked in electronics and product development roles at Atari, Thor Electronics, and other firms, and holds multiple U.S. patents in gaming technology and electrical connectors.

Investors · 3

Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.

Founder mafia

The Apple mafia →

306 people who came through Apple went on to found or lead other companies.

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Competitors · 8

by search overlap
Nextdoor (NYSE: 2021)236376 shared keywordsNeighborhood social network; IPO 2021
DoorDash234261 shared keywordsDoorDash operates a restaurant delivery platform that connects customers with dining establishments across hundreds of cities in North America through a logistics network.
Uber Eats222164 shared keywordsEasiest way for consumers and businesses to order food from favorite local eateries
Zillow218256 shared keywordsZillow operates an online real estate marketplace where consumers can search homes for sale and rentals across US and Canadian cities, view mortgage rate information, and access home financing through Zillow Home Loans. It covers residential property listings, apartments and houses for rent, and mortgage services nationwide.
Genius216484 shared keywordsGenius is a crowdsourced music encyclopedia where a community of contributors annotates and discusses song lyrics, artist information, and music culture across all genres. The platform serves artists, creatives, and music fans who want to explore and share deeper context about music and its creators.
Atly187973 shared keywordsAtly is a location discovery app that helps people find restaurants, bars, and places to visit through personalized recommendations and user-generated tips. The consumer platform has been described as combining social community content with map-based navigation.
SoundCloud181930 shared keywordsAudio distribution and music-sharing platform for artists and creators.
Grubhub169651 shared keywordsChicago-based online food ordering and delivery platform, formerly NYSE-listed, now owned by Marc Lore's Wonder Group.

Companies competing with Apple for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.

Acquisitions · 13

Early investors' stakes continue via these deals
Camerai

Acquired by Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL)

Coherent

GPS technology company acquired by Apple.

CommonGround

Stealth mode startup providing real-time software solutions for human interaction over digital using computer vision, deep learning, and 3D compression; acquired by Apple.

Cue

Cue, formerly Greplin, was an iOS and web app that scanned a user's email, calendar, and social accounts to compile a personalized daily information summary.

Drishti

Drishti Technologies built AI-based computer vision software that analyzed factory assembly-line video to track worker activity and identify manufacturing bottlenecks.

NextVR
PrimeSense

PrimeSense was a Tel Aviv-based fabless semiconductor company that designed 3D depth-sensing chips and middleware, best known for powering Microsoft's original Kinect sensor.

Q

High-bandwidth multilingualism (acquired by Apple)

Siri

Siri, Inc. was a spinoff of SRI International that built a voice-controlled virtual assistant app for iPhone, using natural language processing to help users complete tasks like booking restaurants or finding local businesses.

Sonera Magnetics

Novel sensing technology for non-invasive brain-computer interfaces enabling high-performance signal detection without superconducting sensors.

Turi

Turi developed a machine-learning software platform enabling developers to build apps for recommendations, fraud detection, churn prediction, and sentiment analysis. It was formerly known as GraphLab and Dato before rebranding as Turi.

Vilynx

Vilynx developed AI and computer-vision technology that analyzed a video's visual, audio, and text content to generate metadata, tags, and preview clips, helping publishers make video content more searchable and engaging.

Xnor.ai

Xnor.ai developed energy-efficient edge AI software enabling deep learning models like object and person detection to run on low-power devices such as phones, cameras, and drones without cloud connectivity. The company was spun off from the Allen Institute for AI in 2017.

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Frequently asked questions

What does Apple do?
Apple designs and manufactures consumer electronics, computing devices, and digital services including smartphones, tablets, computers, wearables, and streaming content platforms.
Who founded Apple?
Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne in 1976.
Who are Apple's investors?
Apple's investors include Matrix, Sequoia Capital, Venrock.
Where is Apple headquartered?
Apple is headquartered in Cupertino, US.