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Israel · Founded 1956

Tel Aviv University

Israel's commercial-tech engine · Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv University alumni anchor the Israeli cybersecurity, B2B software, and consumer-tech scene. Strong in security, dev tools, and fintech. · 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.

$540B+36%

Combined EV of alumni-founded startups

130

Alumni unicorns

+8 new in 2025

3,682

Alumni-founded companies

3,221 alumni founders

Peer founder factories by alumni-unicorn count

#5UC Berkeley #6University of Pennsylvania #7University of Cambridge #8Tel Aviv University #9Peking University #10Technion – Israel Institute of Technology #11University of Oxford

Startup funnel

Tel Aviv University's alumni power-law funnel

See how Tel Aviv University's 3,682 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.

Tel Aviv University alumni funnel

All sectors · companies founded by Tel Aviv University alumni

3,682 Alumni-Founded Companies 3,221 alumni founders

New Startups

324 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures

357 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment get funded 110.2%

Pool of Startups

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

1,083 Seed Startups$1M - $4M Pre-Seed to Seed 160.0%

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

Pool of Breakouts

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

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

Pool of Scaleups

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

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

140Valuation Outcomes

130 Unicorns$1B-10B valuation reach unicorn 3.5%

9 Decacorns$10B-100B valuation reach decacorn 0.24%

1 Titans$100B+ valuation reach titan 0.027%

Where alumni build

Tel Aviv University alumni — sector & city breakdown

Top sectors and headquarter cities for unicorns founded by Tel Aviv University alumni.

By sector

1 Cybersecurity 28

2 Other B2B Software 24

3 AI 18

4 Fintech 12

5 Health Tech & Medtech 10

By city

1 Tel Aviv, IL 80

2 New York, US 20

3 Bay Area, US 18

4 London, UK 4

Featured alumni companies

Headliners founded by Tel Aviv University alumni

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Wix decacorn

Alumni-founded · $11B

Monday.com decacorn

Alumni-founded · $13B

Lemonade unicorn

Alumni-founded · $1.5B

Snyk unicorn

Alumni-founded · $7.4B

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

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Founder origins

Where Tel Aviv University 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 Tel Aviv University 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

Tel Aviv University 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 Tel Aviv University

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Tel Aviv University 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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