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MIT

Where deep tech becomes a venture · Cambridge, MA

Massachusetts Institute of Technology — the alma mater of more deep-tech founders than any other school. Strong in robotics, semiconductors, biotech, defence, and AI fundamentals. · 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.

$3.4T+33%
Combined EV of alumni-founded startups
295
Unicorn founders
28
Decacorn founders
210
Thoroughbred founders
🦄 Alumni unicorns
295
295 live · +18 new in 2025
💎 Alumni decacorns
28
$10B+ tier
🐎 Alumni thoroughbreds
210
Top 1% growth · $500M+

Peer founder factories by alumni-unicorn count

Where alumni build

MIT alumni — sector & city breakdown

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

By city
1 Boston, US 120
2 Bay Area, US 90
3 New York, US 24
4 London, UK 8

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Founder origins
Where MIT 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 MIT 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
MIT alumni → alumni hires & spinouts
Alumni-founder mafia map
Spinout cascade chart
Cohort-by-cohort EV
Co-founder pairings
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What X is saying about MIT

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