University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Quietly a top-10 founder factory · Urbana, IL
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Startup funnel
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's alumni power-law funnel
See how University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's 2,723 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.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni funnel
All sectors · companies founded by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
Where alumni build
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni — sector & city breakdown
Top sectors and headquarter cities for unicorns founded by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni.
Featured alumni companies
Headliners founded by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
A selection — tap any card for the public Dealroom company profile, or open the live cap-table on the platform.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 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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