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
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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.
| Rank | Name | Location | Since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stanford UniversityFounders: 1,435 · Companies: 1,297 | United States | No change |
| 2 | University of California, BerkeleyFounders: 1,433 · Companies: 1,305 | United States | New |
| 3 | Harvard UniversityCompanies: 1,086 | United States | No change |
| 4 | University of PennsylvaniaFounders: 1,083 · Companies: 993 · Capital raised usd bn: 34 | United States | Up 1 |
| 5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Companies: 949 | United States | New |
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