Brown Scores Top 25 Ranking for Producing Most Startup Founders

Brown Scores Top 25 Ranking for Producing Most Startup Founders

PitchBook, the proverbial Bible publication covering the venture capital market, ranks the top 100 universities producing the most startup founders.

“Great entrepreneurs can come from anywhere, but some universities have a truly exceptional track record of attracting and producing future founders," writes PitchBook. 

PitchBook’s annual university rankings compare schools by tallying up the number of alumni entrepreneurs who have raised venture capital in the last decade.

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The rankings are powered by PitchBook data and are based on an analysis of nearly 167,000 VC-backed founders.

 

 

 

 

How Did Brown Score?

Brown finished 22nd overall, but seventh among the eight school Ivy League schools. Only Dartmouth ranked behind Brown. It ranked 34th.

In total, Brown produced 559 founders who created 520 companies and raised $26.5 billion in capital, according to PitchBook. 

The Brown startups that have raised the most capital are Northvolt $6.9 billion, Lyra Health $907 million, and Heyday $800 million.

The top-ranked school was the University of California - Berkeley. It produced 1,811 founders, and those companies raised $59.7 billion.

No other Rhode Island university or college was ranked.