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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
88
Alumni unicorns
+7 new in 2025
2,521
Alumni-founded companies
2,099 alumni founders

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Startup funnel

Carnegie Mellon University's alumni power-law funnel

See how Carnegie Mellon University's 2,521 alumni-founded companies narrow through funding rounds to unicorn, decacorn and titan outcomes. Early-stage round counts are blurred — the full per-round funnel is on the Dealroom platform.

Carnegie Mellon University alumni funnel

All sectors · companies founded by Carnegie Mellon University alumni

2,521 Alumni-Founded Companies 2,099 alumni founders
222 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures
245 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment get funded 110.4%
464 Pre-Seed Startups$100K - $1M
741 Seed Startups$1M - $4M Pre-Seed to Seed 159.7%
610 Series A Startups$4M - $15M Seed to Series A 82.3%
333 Series B Breakouts$15M - $40M A to Series B 54.6%
187 Series C Breakouts$40M - $100M B to Series C 56.2%
113 Mega Scaleups$100M - $250M reach Mega 4.5%
73 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+ reach Mega+ 2.9%
88 Unicorns$1B-10B valuation reach unicorn 3.5%
7 Decacorns$10B-100B valuation reach decacorn 0.28%
1 Titans$100B+ valuation reach titan 0.040%

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
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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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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Market sentiment

What the market 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…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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