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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
56
Unicorn founders
4
Decacorn founders
48
Thoroughbred founders
🦄 Alumni unicorns
56
56 live · +4 new in 2025
💎 Alumni decacorns
4
$10B+ tier
🐎 Alumni thoroughbreds
48
Top 1% growth · $500M+

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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
By city
1 Zurich, CH 24
2 Bay Area, US 8
3 Munich, DE 6
4 London, UK 4

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Founder origins
Where ETH Zurich 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 ETH Zurich 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
ETH Zurich 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 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.

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