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United States · Founded 1919

UCLA

LA's anchor for media and consumer · Los Angeles, CA

UCLA underpins LA's entertainment-tech and consumer scenes — alumni founded Snap, Riot Games, GoodRx, and a wave of media startups. · 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.

$180B+29%
Combined EV of alumni-founded startups
60
Unicorn founders
4
Decacorn founders
50
Thoroughbred founders
🦄 Alumni unicorns
60
60 live · +4 new in 2025
💎 Alumni decacorns
4
$10B+ tier
🐎 Alumni thoroughbreds
50
Top 1% growth · $500M+

Peer founder factories by alumni-unicorn count

Where alumni build

UCLA alumni — sector & city breakdown

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

By sector
By city
1 Los Angeles, US 22
2 Bay Area, US 18
3 New York, US 6

Featured alumni companies

Headliners founded by UCLA alumni

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

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Founder origins
Where UCLA 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 UCLA 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
UCLA alumni → alumni hires & spinouts
Alumni-founder mafia map
Spinout cascade chart
Cohort-by-cohort EV
Co-founder pairings
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Sentiment on X

What X is saying about UCLA

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