Whatever criteria we look at, whether it’s schools with the highest
number of well-capitalized founders, highest funding totals or even
where startup investors went to college, the same names top the list.
The only surprise factor, it seems, is whether Harvard or Stanford will
be in first place.
It’s possible we’ll do a data-driven university- and startup-related
ranking that doesn’t feature the same two schools in the top two
positions. But that’s not happening today, as we look at universities
with founder alumni who have raised the most venture funding.1
OK, so who else is on the list?
Luckily, there are more than two names on the list. In this survey, we
looked at the top 15 schools ranked by alumni who have raised the most
venture funding for their startups in roughly the past year.
This is a follow-up to our earlier piece, which ranked U.S. universities
according to the number of funded startup founders who raised $1
million or more in the survey period. The results, however, feature most
of the same names, and an only slightly altered order.
Take a look for yourself below. The chart includes the name of the
school, the total known venture capital funding raised by alumni
founders since August 1, 2017, and the most heavily funded companies.
Methodology
In the survey results, we included universities and affiliated business
schools together. This significantly bumped up the totals for
universities with well-known business schools, like Harvard and the
University of Pennsylvania (home of the Wharton School of Business).
Additionally, a number of funded founders have degrees from more than
one university in the ranking. These entrepreneurs are counted once for
each university.
The survey data is for seed through late-stage venture funding rounds announced on or after August 1, 2017.
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