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France · Founded 1957

INSEAD

Europe's MBA-fed unicorn pipeline · Fontainebleau

INSEAD has produced an outsize share of European fintech and B2B SaaS founders — Klarna, Wise, Mews, and a generation of cross-border operators. · 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.

$360B+31%

Combined EV of alumni-founded startups

Alumni unicorns

+6 new in 2025

5,317

Alumni-founded companies

4,498 alumni founders

Peer founder factories by alumni-unicorn count

#9Peking University #10Technion – Israel Institute of Technology #11University of Oxford #12INSEAD #13IIT Bombay #14Carnegie Mellon University #15Princeton University

Startup funnel

INSEAD's alumni power-law funnel

See how INSEAD's 5,317 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.

INSEAD alumni funnel

All sectors · companies founded by INSEAD alumni

5,317 Alumni-Founded Companies 4,498 alumni founders

New Startups

468 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures

516 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment get funded 110.3%

Pool of Startups

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

1,563 Seed Startups$1M - $4M Pre-Seed to Seed 159.8%

1,287 Series A Startups$4M - $15M Seed to Series A 82.3%

Pool of Breakouts

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

393 Series C Breakouts$40M - $100M B to Series C 56.0%

Pool of Scaleups

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

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

102Valuation Outcomes

95 Unicorns$1B-10B valuation reach unicorn 1.8%

7 Decacorns$10B-100B valuation reach decacorn 0.13%

Where alumni build

INSEAD alumni — sector & city breakdown

Top sectors and headquarter cities for unicorns founded by INSEAD alumni.

By sector

1 Fintech 22

2 Other B2B Software 20

3 eCommerce & Marketplaces 12

4 Consumer Services 10

By city

1 London, UK 22

2 Paris, FR 16

3 Singapore 12

4 Bay Area, US 10

Featured alumni companies

Headliners founded by INSEAD alumni

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

Klarna decacorn

Alumni-founded · $15B

Wise decacorn

Alumni-founded · $10B

Mews unicorn

Alumni-founded · $1.2B

Premium analytics

What we don't show on this page (yet)

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Founder origins

Where INSEAD 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 INSEAD 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

INSEAD 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 INSEAD

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about INSEAD 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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