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United States · Founded 1900

Carnegie Mellon University

America's robotics and AI lab · Pittsburgh, PA

CMU has the most programs that have shaped modern AI and robotics — Argo AI, Aurora, Duolingo, and a deep alumni network in autonomy and ML systems. · A public taster of the full Dealroom founder-factory dataset — request a demo for live deal flow, founder pedigrees, and the complete alumni-startup graph.

$320B+36%

Combined EV of alumni-founded startups

Unicorn founders

Decacorn founders

Thoroughbred founders

🦄 Alumni unicorns

88 live · +7 new in 2025

💎 Alumni decacorns

$10B+ tier

🐎 Alumni thoroughbreds

Top 1% growth · $500M+

Peer founder factories by alumni-unicorn count

#11University of Oxford #12INSEAD #13IIT Bombay #14Carnegie Mellon University #15Princeton University #16Imperial College London #17IIT Delhi

Where alumni build

Carnegie Mellon University alumni — sector & city breakdown

Top sectors and headquarter cities for unicorns founded by Carnegie Mellon University alumni.

By sector

1 AI 22

2 Robotics 10

3 Other B2B Software 18

4 Transportation 8

5 Cybersecurity 8

By city

1 Pittsburgh, US 18

2 Bay Area, US 32

3 New York, US 10

4 Boston, US 6

Featured alumni companies

Headliners founded by Carnegie Mellon University alumni

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Duolingo decacorn

Alumni-founded · $13B

Aurora unicorn

Alumni-founded · $6B

Argo AI decacorn

Alumni-founded · $12B

ASAPP unicorn

Alumni-founded · $1.6B

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Founder origins

Where Carnegie Mellon University founders come from before applying

Country of birth

Per-capita pipeline

Origin companies

Pre-college signals

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AI talent

Top employers of Carnegie Mellon University alumni in AI

Core AI roles

Frontier AI roles

Net-new hires

Senior + lead engineers

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Deal flow

Live alumni-founded deal flow

New rounds last 30 days

Stage breakdown

Active alumni investors

Round-size trends

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Network effects

Carnegie Mellon University alumni → alumni hires & spinouts

Alumni-founder mafia map

Spinout cascade chart

Cohort-by-cohort EV

Co-founder pairings

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Sentiment on X

What X is saying about Carnegie Mellon University

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Carnegie Mellon University on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

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