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University of Toronto

The cradle of modern AI · Toronto

U Toronto produced Geoffrey Hinton, Ilya Sutskever, and a generation of researchers who built the modern AI industry. Shopify, Cohere, and Wattpad alumni anchor the Canadian unicorn cluster. · 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.

$240B+35%
Combined EV of alumni-founded startups
65
Alumni unicorns
+6 new in 2025
3,103
Alumni-founded companies
2,763 alumni founders

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Startup funnel

University of Toronto's alumni power-law funnel

See how University of Toronto's 3,103 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 Toronto alumni funnel

All sectors · companies founded by University of Toronto alumni

3,103 Alumni-Founded Companies 2,763 alumni founders
273 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures
301 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment get funded 110.3%
571 Pre-Seed Startups$100K - $1M
912 Seed Startups$1M - $4M Pre-Seed to Seed 159.7%
751 Series A Startups$4M - $15M Seed to Series A 82.3%
410 Series B Breakouts$15M - $40M A to Series B 54.6%
230 Series C Breakouts$40M - $100M B to Series C 56.1%
140 Mega Scaleups$100M - $250M reach Mega 4.5%
90 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+ reach Mega+ 2.9%
65 Unicorns$1B-10B valuation reach unicorn 2.1%
6 Decacorns$10B-100B valuation reach decacorn 0.19%
1 Titans$100B+ valuation reach titan 0.032%

Where alumni build

University of Toronto alumni — sector & city breakdown

Top sectors and headquarter cities for unicorns founded by University of Toronto alumni.

By sector
By city
1 Toronto, CA 30
2 Bay Area, US 14
3 Vancouver, CA 6
4 New York, US 6

Featured alumni companies

Headliners founded by University of Toronto alumni

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

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Founder origins
Where University of Toronto 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 University of Toronto 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
University of Toronto 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 University of Toronto

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