Solo Founders in 2025: Why One Third of All Startups are Flying Solo
Solo founders now start 36.3% of new companies. Explore Carta data behind the rise of solo founding — and why the co-founder default no longer holds.
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This Solo Founder Can Predict the Future
"2020, running out of money, solo founder, HQ in my makeshift bathroom office. Little did I know Polymarket was going to change the world." Can you predict the future? Shayne Coplan bets that we all can. The NYSE's parent co certainly thinks so, investing $2B in
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How a solo founder turned a side project into a $2.5B workflow automation giant
Six years ago, Jan Oberhauser was a solo founder in Berlin, frustrated by the complexity of workflow automation. He was hacking away on a side project. Today, that side project is now a European unicorn with a $180 million Series C announcement fresh off the press. n8n’s valuation jumped