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PitchBook University Rankings: Undergraduate Founders 2023

PitchBook University Rankings: Undergraduate Founders 2023 by PitchBook: 5 universities ranked, led by Stanford University. The entries on record, movement since...

Publisher
PitchBook
Published
September 11, 2023
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5 ranked
Method
Data
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Grade B

PitchBook ranks by founder count, and Stanford had 1,435 undergraduate founders to Berkeley's 1,433, per Berkeley Haas; Berkeley led on companies founded (1,305 vs. 1,297) and promoted itself as No. 1. Harvard, Penn (1,083 founders) and MIT followed.

Window January 2013 through September 2023; more than 150,000 founders.

The list on record

This page shows the 5 entries on record. Top 5 assembled from Berkeley Haas, University of California and The Daily Pennsylvanian coverage; full list is in PitchBook's interactive table (not transcribed). See the original list.

RankNameLocationSince 2022
1Stanford UniversityFounders: 1,435 · Companies: 1,297United StatesNo change
2University of California, BerkeleyFounders: 1,433 · Companies: 1,305United StatesNew
3Harvard UniversityCompanies: 1,086United StatesNo change
4University of PennsylvaniaFounders: 1,083 · Companies: 993 · Capital raised usd bn: 34United StatesUp 1
5Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Companies: 949United StatesNew

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Sources and known limits

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