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United Kingdom · Founded 1907

Imperial College London

Engineers London's deep-tech wave · London

Imperial trains the engineers and quants powering London's deep-tech scene — Wise, Touchlight, ASOS, and a generation of medtech and aerospace founders. · 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.

$240B+32%
Combined EV of alumni-founded startups
76
Alumni unicorns
+5 new in 2025
3,472
Alumni-founded companies
3,121 alumni founders

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Startup funnel

Imperial College London's alumni power-law funnel

See how Imperial College London's 3,472 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.

Imperial College London alumni funnel

All sectors · companies founded by Imperial College London alumni

3,472 Alumni-Founded Companies 3,121 alumni founders
306 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures
337 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment get funded 110.1%
639 Pre-Seed Startups$100K - $1M
1,021 Seed Startups$1M - $4M Pre-Seed to Seed 159.8%
840 Series A Startups$4M - $15M Seed to Series A 82.3%
458 Series B Breakouts$15M - $40M A to Series B 54.5%
257 Series C Breakouts$40M - $100M B to Series C 56.1%
156 Mega Scaleups$100M - $250M reach Mega 4.5%
101 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+ reach Mega+ 2.9%
76 Unicorns$1B-10B valuation reach unicorn 2.2%
5 Decacorns$10B-100B valuation reach decacorn 0.14%

Where alumni build

Imperial College London alumni — sector & city breakdown

Top sectors and headquarter cities for unicorns founded by Imperial College London alumni.

By sector
By city
1 London, UK 50
2 Bay Area, US 6
3 Singapore 4

Featured alumni companies

Headliners founded by Imperial College London alumni

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Founder origins
Where Imperial College London 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 Imperial College London 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
Imperial College London 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 Imperial College London

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Imperial College London 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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