PitchBook University Rankings: Undergraduate Founders 2022
PitchBook University Rankings: Undergraduate Founders 2022 by PitchBook: 5 universities ranked, led by Stanford University. The entries on record, movement since...
Stanford ranked first with 1,427 undergraduate founders, just ahead of UC Berkeley (1,406); Harvard and MIT followed. First edition to use a roughly 10-year window (Jan. 1, 2012 to Oct. 21, 2022) and a top 100 format, covering more than 144,000 founders.
Method changed. Positions in this edition are not directly comparable with the previous one.
Window cut from about 15 years to about 10 years; list extended to top 100.
The list on record
This page shows the 5 entries on record of 100 published. Top 4 with counts from Poets&Quants for Undergrads (Nov. 28, 2022); Penn 5th per The Daily Pennsylvanian. Full top 100 is in PitchBook's interactive table and Excel file, which could not be read. The original list.
| Rank | Name | Since 2021 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stanford UniversityFounders: 1,427 · Companies: 1,271 · Capital raised usd bn: 73.6 | No change |
| 2 | UC BerkeleyFounders: 1,406 · Companies: 1,266 · Capital raised usd bn: 45.7 | |
| 3 | Harvard UniversityFounders: 1,184 · Companies: 1,061 · Capital raised usd bn: 49.5 | No change |
| 4 | MITFounders: 1,065 · Companies: 943 · Capital raised usd bn: 45.9 | |
| 5 | University of PennsylvaniaFounders: 1,038 |
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