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University of Washington

Seattle's developer pipeline · Seattle, WA

University of Washington is the engineering pipeline for Microsoft, Amazon, and the new Seattle AI scene — Convoy, Outreach, Highspot. · 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.

$160B+31%
Combined EV of alumni-founded startups
56
Alumni unicorns
+5 new in 2025
278
Alumni-founded companies
207 alumni founders

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Startup funnel

University of Washington's alumni power-law funnel

See how University of Washington's 278 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 Washington alumni funnel

All sectors · companies founded by University of Washington alumni

278 Alumni-Founded Companies 207 alumni founders
24 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures
27 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment get funded 112.5%
51 Pre-Seed Startups$100K - $1M
82 Seed Startups$1M - $4M Pre-Seed to Seed 160.8%
67 Series A Startups$4M - $15M Seed to Series A 81.7%
37 Series B Breakouts$15M - $40M A to Series B 55.2%
21 Series C Breakouts$40M - $100M B to Series C 56.8%
13 Mega Scaleups$100M - $250M reach Mega 4.7%
8 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+ reach Mega+ 2.9%
56 Unicorns$1B-10B valuation reach unicorn 20.1%
4 Decacorns$10B-100B valuation reach decacorn 1.4%

Where alumni build

University of Washington alumni — sector & city breakdown

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

By city
1 Seattle, US 22
2 Bay Area, US 14
3 New York, US 4

Featured alumni companies

Headliners founded by University of Washington alumni

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

Founder pre-college origins, AI-talent leaderboards, live alumni deal flow and the full mafia network graph are gated to logged-in Dealroom users. Book a demo to access the full University of Washington dataset.

Founder origins
Where University of Washington 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 Washington 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 Washington 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 Washington

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