Universities, Spinouts & Alumni Data

Use Dealroom's company search with the Spinout tag applied to instantly pull up every company in the database identified as a university or research institution spinout. Start from this filtered view and layer on additional filters to narrow your results — by country or city, sector or sub-industry, funding stage, founding year, or investor. You can also sort by Dealroom Signal, total funding, or valuation to surface the strongest performers.

Once you've filtered to the spinouts that matter for your work, save the search as an Alert to be notified whenever new spinouts match your criteria. You can also export results as CSV or Excel for offline analysis, or add the list to a Landscape to share it with your team or embed it in a report.

All universities tracked by Dealroom are available in one dedicated page — navigate directly to app.dealroom.co/universities. You'll land on a sortable table of academic institutions ranked by their entrepreneurial output, covering metrics like total spinouts, alumni-founded startups, unicorn founders, and patents filed.

Click any column header to rank universities by their key metrics:

• Total spinouts — companies directly created out of the institution's research or IP
• Alumni-founded startups — companies founded by graduates of the university
• Unicorn founders — alumni who went on to found unicorn companies
• Patents — volume of patents filed, a proxy for research output and commercialisation potential

Use the country or region filter to focus on institutions in a specific geography — useful for benchmarking national ecosystems or scoping a regional deal sourcing strategy.

Every institution in the table is clickable. Opening a university profile gives you a dedicated page with a complete breakdown of its entrepreneurial ecosystem — including its spinout companies, alumni-founded startups, top founders, funding history of affiliated companies, and geographic spread of its alumni network.

Within each profile, you can drill into the spinout company list with full funding and growth data, explore the founder network to see which alumni are building high-growth companies, and review investor activity to understand which VCs are already backing companies from this institution. This is particularly useful for identifying partnership opportunities, sourcing early-stage deals, or mapping the innovation output of a specific university.

University profiles are ideal for comparative analysis — for example, understanding which European technical universities produce the most deep tech spinouts, or which US schools have the highest ratio of unicorn founders relative to total alumni. Open multiple profiles in separate tabs to compare their data head to head, or export company lists from each for a consolidated view.

Dealroom published its European Spinouts Report 2025 — a comprehensive analysis of spinout activity across Europe, covering which universities are leading in commercialisation, how spinout funding has evolved, and where the strongest regional clusters are emerging. The report draws on Dealroom's full dataset of university spinouts and provides benchmarks for policymakers, investors, and research institutions.

Access the full report below: