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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%

Pool of Startups

376 Pre-Seed Startups$100K - $1M

600 Seed Startups$1M - $4M Pre-Seed to Seed 159.6%

494 Series A Startups$4M - $15M Seed to Series A 82.3%

Pool of Breakouts

269 Series B Breakouts$15M - $40M A to Series B 54.5%

151 Series C Breakouts$40M - $100M B to Series C 56.1%

Pool of Scaleups

92 Mega Scaleups$100M - $250M reach Mega 4.5%

59 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+ reach Mega+ 2.9%

60Valuation Outcomes

56 Unicorns$1B-10B valuation reach unicorn 2.7%

4 Decacorns$10B-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

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Climeworks unicorn

Alumni-founded · $1.6B

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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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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.

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