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PitchBook University Rankings: Undergraduate Founders 2015-2016 Edition

PitchBook University Rankings: Undergraduate Founders 2015-2016 Edition by PitchBook: 10 universities ranked, led by Stanford. The entries on record, movement...

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PitchBook
Published
September 24, 2015
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10 of 50 ranked
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Stanford ranked first with 561 undergraduate entrepreneurs, followed by UC Berkeley (536) and MIT (435). PitchBook described this as the third edition; window ran from January 2010 through July 31, 2015, and Trinity College Dublin led the European breakdown.

The list on record

This page shows the 10 entries on record of 50 published. Top 10 from the 2015-2016 report PDF (hosted by the Michigan Venture Capital Association); several cells in lower rows were chart-only and are left out. See the original list.

RankNameSince 2014
1StanfordFounders: 561 · Companies: 472 · Capital raised usd bn: 4.107
2UC BerkeleyFounders: 536 · Companies: 369 · Capital raised usd bn: 4.555
3MITFounders: 435 · Companies: 359 · Capital raised usd bn: 4.955No change
4HarvardFounders: 404 · Companies: 351 · Capital raised usd bn: 3.047No change
5University of PennsylvaniaFounders: 393 · Companies: 291 · Capital raised usd bn: 3.22No change
6CornellFounders: 323 · Companies: 272 · Capital raised usd bn: 2.005No change
7University of MichiganFounders: 312 · Companies: 266 · Capital raised usd bn: 1.754
8University of TexasFounders: 293 · Companies: 204 · Capital raised usd bn: 2.061
9Tel Aviv UniversityFounders: 250 · Companies: 217Down 1
10University of IllinoisFounders: 239

This list is reproduced as PitchBook published it. Names are shown as printed. The ranking belongs to its publisher.

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