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United States · Founded 1868

UC Berkeley

The public-school engine of Silicon Valley · Berkeley, CA

Berkeley engineers anchor Apple, Tesla, Intel, and a generation of open-source infrastructure companies. The largest contributor of Silicon Valley engineering talent after Stanford. · 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.

$1.7T+31%

Combined EV of alumni-founded startups

190

Alumni unicorns

+12 new in 2025

8,176

Alumni-founded companies

6,895 alumni founders

Peer founder factories by alumni-unicorn count

#2Harvard University #3MIT #4Tsinghua University #5UC Berkeley #6University of Pennsylvania #7University of Cambridge #8Tel Aviv University

Startup funnel

UC Berkeley's alumni power-law funnel

See how UC Berkeley's 8,176 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.

UC Berkeley alumni funnel

All sectors · companies founded by UC Berkeley alumni

8,176 Alumni-Founded Companies 6,895 alumni founders

New Startups

719 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures

793 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment get funded 110.3%

Pool of Startups

1,504 Pre-Seed Startups$100K - $1M

2,404 Seed Startups$1M - $4M Pre-Seed to Seed 159.8%

1,979 Series A Startups$4M - $15M Seed to Series A 82.3%

Pool of Breakouts

1,079 Series B Breakouts$15M - $40M A to Series B 54.5%

605 Series C Breakouts$40M - $100M B to Series C 56.1%

Pool of Scaleups

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

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

212Valuation Outcomes

190 Unicorns$1B-10B valuation reach unicorn 2.3%

18 Decacorns$10B-100B valuation reach decacorn 0.22%

4 Titans$100B+ valuation reach titan 0.049%

Where alumni build

UC Berkeley alumni — sector & city breakdown

Top sectors and headquarter cities for unicorns founded by UC Berkeley alumni.

By sector

1 Other B2B Software 42

2 AI 38

3 Fintech 22

4 Semiconductors 14

5 Energy 12

6 Health Tech & Medtech 10

By city

1 Bay Area, US 130

2 Los Angeles, US 12

3 New York, US 14

4 Beijing, CN 4

Featured alumni companies

Headliners founded by UC Berkeley alumni

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Apple (founders) titan

Alumni-founded · $3T+

Tesla titan

Alumni-founded · $1.2T+

Databricks decacorn

Alumni-founded · $62B

GitLab unicorn

Alumni-founded · $7.6B

Sumo Logic unicorn

Alumni-founded · $1.7B

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

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Founder origins

Where UC Berkeley 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 UC Berkeley 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

UC Berkeley 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 UC Berkeley

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about UC Berkeley 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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