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The world's top founder factories.

Universities ranked by the count and combined EV of unicorns their alumni have founded. A public sample of Dealroom's founder-factory dataset — book a demo for the full alumni graph and live deal flow.

Universities ranked by alumni-founded unicorns

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🇺🇸 Stanford University #1
478Alumni unicorns
56Alumni decacorns
$6.8TCombined EV
32New unicorns 2025
United States Stanford, CA
🇺🇸 Harvard University #2
320Alumni unicorns
32Alumni decacorns
$4.2TCombined EV
22New unicorns 2025
United States Cambridge, MA
🇺🇸 MIT #3
295Alumni unicorns
28Alumni decacorns
$3.4TCombined EV
18New unicorns 2025
United States Cambridge, MA
🇨🇳 Tsinghua University #4
200Alumni unicorns
24Alumni decacorns
$1.7TCombined EV
12New unicorns 2025
China Beijing
🇺🇸 UC Berkeley #5
190Alumni unicorns
18Alumni decacorns
$1.7TCombined EV
12New unicorns 2025
United States Berkeley, CA
🇺🇸 University of Pennsylvania #6
165Alumni unicorns
14Alumni decacorns
$1.3TCombined EV
11New unicorns 2025
United States Philadelphia, PA
🇬🇧 University of Cambridge #7
140Alumni unicorns
12Alumni decacorns
$760BCombined EV
9New unicorns 2025
United Kingdom Cambridge
🇮🇱 Tel Aviv University #8
130Alumni unicorns
9Alumni decacorns
$540BCombined EV
8New unicorns 2025
Israel Tel Aviv
🇨🇳 Peking University #9
130Alumni unicorns
12Alumni decacorns
$880BCombined EV
8New unicorns 2025
China Beijing
🇮🇱 Technion – Israel Institute of Technology #10
120Alumni unicorns
12Alumni decacorns
$660BCombined EV
7New unicorns 2025
Israel Haifa
🇬🇧 University of Oxford #11
95Alumni unicorns
7Alumni decacorns
$380BCombined EV
6New unicorns 2025
United Kingdom Oxford
🇫🇷 INSEAD #12
95Alumni unicorns
7Alumni decacorns
$360BCombined EV
6New unicorns 2025
France Fontainebleau
🇮🇳 IIT Bombay #13
90Alumni unicorns
7Alumni decacorns
$340BCombined EV
8New unicorns 2025
India Mumbai
🇺🇸 Carnegie Mellon University #14
88Alumni unicorns
7Alumni decacorns
$320BCombined EV
7New unicorns 2025
United States Pittsburgh, PA
🇺🇸 Princeton University #15
80Alumni unicorns
8Alumni decacorns
$1TCombined EV
6New unicorns 2025
United States Princeton, NJ
🇬🇧 Imperial College London #16
76Alumni unicorns
5Alumni decacorns
$240BCombined EV
5New unicorns 2025
United Kingdom London
🇮🇳 IIT Delhi #17
75Alumni unicorns
5Alumni decacorns
$250BCombined EV
6New unicorns 2025
India New Delhi
🇺🇸 Yale University #18
72Alumni unicorns
5Alumni decacorns
$320BCombined EV
5New unicorns 2025
United States New Haven, CT
🇺🇸 Columbia University #19
70Alumni unicorns
4Alumni decacorns
$220BCombined EV
5New unicorns 2025
United States New York, NY
🇨🇦 University of Toronto #20
65Alumni unicorns
6Alumni decacorns
$240BCombined EV
6New unicorns 2025
Canada Toronto
🇮🇱 Hebrew University of Jerusalem #21
60Alumni unicorns
5Alumni decacorns
$180BCombined EV
4New unicorns 2025
Israel Jerusalem
🇫🇷 École Polytechnique #22
60Alumni unicorns
4Alumni decacorns
$175BCombined EV
6New unicorns 2025
France Palaiseau
🇺🇸 UCLA #23
60Alumni unicorns
4Alumni decacorns
$180BCombined EV
4New unicorns 2025
United States Los Angeles, CA
🇨🇭 ETH Zurich #24
56Alumni unicorns
4Alumni decacorns
$130BCombined EV
4New unicorns 2025
Switzerland Zurich
🇺🇸 University of Washington #25
56Alumni unicorns
4Alumni decacorns
$160BCombined EV
5New unicorns 2025
United States Seattle, WA
🇨🇦 Waterloo #26
55Alumni unicorns
4Alumni decacorns
$160BCombined EV
4New unicorns 2025
Canada Waterloo
🇩🇪 TU Munich #27
52Alumni unicorns
3Alumni decacorns
$110BCombined EV
5New unicorns 2025
Germany Munich
🇺🇸 USC #28
48Alumni unicorns
3Alumni decacorns
$130BCombined EV
3New unicorns 2025
United States Los Angeles, CA
🇺🇸 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign #29
48Alumni unicorns
4Alumni decacorns
$280BCombined EV
4New unicorns 2025
United States Urbana, IL
🇮🇳 Indian Institute of Science (IISc) #30
28Alumni unicorns
2Alumni decacorns
$70BCombined EV
2New unicorns 2025
India Bengaluru