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Switzerland · Founded 1855

ETH Zurich

Continental Europe's MIT · Zurich

ETH Zurich has produced Europe's top robotics and AI hardware founders — Climeworks, Scandit, Inait. Strong in robotics, climate, and computer vision. · 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.

$130B+32%

Combined EV of alumni-founded startups

Alumni unicorns

+4 new in 2025

2,041

Alumni-founded companies

2,080 alumni founders

Peer founder factories by alumni-unicorn count

#21Hebrew University of Jerusalem #22École Polytechnique #23UCLA #24ETH Zurich #25University of Washington #26Waterloo #27TU Munich

Startup funnel

ETH Zurich's alumni power-law funnel

See how ETH Zurich's 2,041 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.

ETH Zurich alumni funnel

All sectors · companies founded by ETH Zurich alumni

2,041 Alumni-Founded Companies 2,080 alumni founders

New Startups

180 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures

198 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment

get funded 110.0%

Startups

376 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M

600 Seed Startups$1–4M

Pre-Seed to Seed 159.6%

494 Series A Startups$4–15M

Seed to Series A 82.3%

Breakouts

269 Series B Breakouts$15–40M

A to Series B 54.5%

151 Series C Breakouts$40–100M

B to Series C 56.1%

Scaleups

92 Mega Scaleups$100–250M

reach Mega 4.5%

59 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+

reach Mega+ 2.9%

60Valuation Outcomes

56 Unicorns$1–10B valuation

reach unicorn 2.7%

4 Decacorns$10–100B valuation

reach decacorn 0.20%

Where alumni build

ETH Zurich alumni — sector & city breakdown

Top sectors and headquarter cities for unicorns founded by ETH Zurich alumni.

By sector

1 Robotics 12

2 Energy 10

3 AI 12

4 Other B2B Software 10

By city

1 Zurich, CH 24

2 Bay Area, US 8

3 Munich, DE 6

4 London, UK 4

Featured alumni companies

Headliners founded by ETH Zurich alumni

A selection — tap any card for the public Dealroom company profile, or open the live cap-table on the platform.

Climeworks unicorn

Alumni-founded · $1.6B

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about ETH Zurich

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about ETH Zurich 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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