| 100% | GLOCK | 5 | Gaston —, Austrian engineer who founded a company in 1963 that now makes firearms |
| 40% | WALTERCHRYSLER | 14 | American industrialist who founded the company that made cars like the PT Cruiser, and is now a partner of Fiat |
| 34% | IAMS | 4 | Animal nutritionist who founded a pet food company in 1946 |
| 32% | LLBEAN | 6 | Double-initialed outdoorsman who founded a retail company based in Freeport, Maine: 3 wds. |
| 32% | CARNEGIE | 8 | Andrew ___, Scottish-American industrialist, business magnate, and philanthropist who founded a steel company in Pittsburgh |
| 30% | ACME | 4 | Company that makes contraptions like a Do-It-Yourself Tornado Kit, in old cartoons |
| 29% | INVESTORS | 9 | Those who buy shares in a company |
| 29% | ZEPPELIN | 8 | Count who founded the "Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Luftschiffahrt" in 1898, a venture that ended up with the Hindenburg |
| 29% | FORD | 4 | Henry who founded a car company |
| 29% | ELI | 3 | Lilly who founded a pharmaceutical company |
| 28% | AVIS | 4 | Warren who founded a rental car company |
| 28% | DEERE | 5 | John who founded a Fortune 500 company |
| 28% | IAMS | 4 | Paul who founded a pet food company |
| 28% | MICHAELHANEKE | 13 | Austrian director who made a Hollywood remake of his original film "Funny Games" in the year 2007: 2 wds. |
| 28% | IAMS | 4 | Nutritionist Paul who founded a pet food company |
| 28% | NERF | 4 | Company that now makes the Super Soaker |
| 28% | VASSAR | 6 | Matthew who founded a college in 1861 |
| 27% | MACY | 4 | R.H. who founded a New York store in 1858 |
| 27% | CARTIER | 7 | Louis-François who founded a Parisian jewelry house in 1847 |
| 27% | FOUNDERS | 8 | Those who established a company or business |
| 27% | ANDES | 5 | Company that makes a mint |
| 27% | OCULUS | 6 | Company that made a rift |
| 27% | ASS | 3 | Mammal who found a "Lion's Skin," in an Aesop's fable |
| 26% | WALTDISNEY | 10 | Animation icon who founded his company in 1923 |
| 26% | PROFITABLY | 10 | In a way that makes money |
| 26% | WATT | 4 | Engineer who supposedly found inspiration while tending to a boiling kettle |
| 26% | SILENTLY | 8 | In a way that makes no noise |
| 26% | OREO | 4 | Sandwich cookie that now comes in a S'mores variety |
| 26% | NINTENDO | 8 | Company founded in 1889 to make playing cards |
| 26% | OWL | 3 | A bird that hoots, often found in barns |