cofounder

See also: co-founder

English

Alternative forms

• co-founder

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Latin co-der.

English co-

English founder

English cofounder

From co- + founder.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəʊˈfaʊndə/
• (General American) enPR: kōʹfound'ər, kōʹfound-ər, kō'foundʹər IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊ(ˌ)faʊndɚ/, /ˌkoʊˈfaʊndɚ/
• Rhymes: -aʊndə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: co‧founder

Noun

cofounder (plural cofounders)

1. A joint founder; one of several people involved with the creation of a business, organization, union, or entity.

   The two cofounders both attended the ceremony.

   • 2005 March 30, “Miramax founders leave Disney”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Miramax Films cofounders Bob and Harvey Weinstein will end their successful, but often tumultuous, 12-year relationship with The Walt Disney Company to launch their own media company.

   • 2016 October 12, Andy Orin, “I'm David Baszucki, CEO of Roblox, and This Is How I Work”, in LifeHacker‎^[2], archived from the original on 13 July 2024:

     David Baszucki created it ten years ago along with his cofounder Erik Cassel, and it’s gradually snowballed in popularity, particularly among kids and teenagers.

   • 2021 October 8, Jon Henley and Rebecca Ratcliffe, “Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov win Nobel peace prize”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

     Maria Ressa, the chief executive and cofounder of Rappler, and Dmitry Muratov, the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, were named as this year’s laureates by Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel committee.

   • 2023 October 18, Damien Gayle, “Greta Thunberg charged with public order offence after London oil protest”, in The Guardian‎^[4]:

     Details of Thunberg’s charge came as Just Stop Oil said its cofounders, Indigo Rumbelow and Roger Hallam, were arrested on Wednesday morning following dawn raids at their homes.

Related terms

• cofound

Translations

one who founds something with someone else

• Armenian: համահիմնադիր (hamahimnadir)
• Catalan: cofundador m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 共同創辦人 / 共同创办人 (gòngtóngchuàngbànrén)

• Dutch: mede-oprichter m
• Esperanto: kunfondinto
• French: cofondateur (fr) m, cofondatrice (fr) f
• German: Mitgründer (de) m, Mitgründerin (de) f
• Hungarian: társalapító (hu)
• Irish: comhbhunaitheoir m
• Italian: cofondatore m, cofondatrice f
• Luxembourgish: Matgrënner m
• Polish: współzałożyciel (pl) m, współzałożycielka (pl) f
• Russian: сооснова́тель (ru) m (soosnovátelʹ), сооснова́тельница (ru) f (soosnovátelʹnica), соучреди́тель (ru) m (součredítelʹ), соучреди́тельница (ru) f (součredítelʹnica)
• Spanish: cofundador (es) m, cofundadora (es) f
• Swahili: mwanzilishi mwenza
• Swedish: medgrundare (sv) c
• Ukrainian: співзасно́вник m (spivzasnóvnyk), співзасно́вниця f (spivzasnóvnycja)