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India · Founded 1958

IIT Bombay

India's most prolific founder factory · Mumbai

IIT Bombay alumni anchor the Indian unicorn cluster — Flipkart, OYO, Razorpay, Postman, and a wave of SaaS founders globally. · 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.

$340B+38%

Combined EV of alumni-founded startups

Alumni unicorns

+8 new in 2025

1,754

Alumni-founded companies

1,568 alumni founders

Peer founder factories by alumni-unicorn count

#10Technion – Israel Institute of Technology #11University of Oxford #12INSEAD #13IIT Bombay #14Carnegie Mellon University #15Princeton University #16Imperial College London

Startup funnel

IIT Bombay's alumni power-law funnel

See how IIT Bombay's 1,754 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.

IIT Bombay alumni funnel

All sectors · companies founded by IIT Bombay alumni

1,754 Alumni-Founded Companies 1,568 alumni founders

New Startups

154 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures

170 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment

get funded 110.4%

Startups

323 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M

516 Seed Startups$1–4M

Pre-Seed to Seed 159.8%

424 Series A Startups$4–15M

Seed to Series A 82.2%

Breakouts

232 Series B Breakouts$15–40M

A to Series B 54.7%

130 Series C Breakouts$40–100M

B to Series C 56.0%

Scaleups

79 Mega Scaleups$100–250M

reach Mega 4.5%

51 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+

reach Mega+ 2.9%

98Valuation Outcomes

90 Unicorns$1–10B valuation

reach unicorn 5.1%

7 Decacorns$10–100B valuation

reach decacorn 0.40%

1 Titans$100B+ valuation

reach titan 0.057%

Where alumni build

IIT Bombay alumni — sector & city breakdown

Top sectors and headquarter cities for unicorns founded by IIT Bombay alumni.

By sector

1 Other B2B Software 22

2 Fintech 18

3 AI 12

4 eCommerce & Marketplaces 14

5 Edtech 8

6 Consumer Services 8

By city

1 Bengaluru, IN 38

2 Mumbai, IN 22

3 Bay Area, US 14

4 New York, US 6

Featured alumni companies

Headliners founded by IIT Bombay alumni

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

Flipkart decacorn

Alumni-founded · $33B

OYO decacorn

Alumni-founded · $10B

Razorpay decacorn

Alumni-founded · $7.5B

Postman unicorn

Alumni-founded · $5.6B

Persistent Systems unicorn

Alumni-founded · $1B

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about IIT Bombay

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about IIT Bombay 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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