AI for science · Founders

Founders from Cambridge, Oxford and UCL started the most of Europe’s AI-for-science companies

Companies with at least one founder who studied at each university, of 699 European AI-for-science companies

  1. 🇬🇧Cambridge60
  2. 🇬🇧Oxford40
  3. 🇬🇧UCL25
  4. 🇨🇭ETH Zurich19
  5. 🇫🇷École Polytechnique18
  6. 🇩🇪TU Munich17
  7. 🇺🇸MIT16
  8. 🇺🇸Stanford16
  9. 🇬🇧Manchester14
  10. 🇺🇸Harvard11
  11. 🇫🇷Université Paris Cité11
  12. 🇫🇷CentraleSupélec10

30%of the companies are spinouts

Most companies by city

  • London97
  • Berlin34
  • Paris34
  • Cambridge23
  • Munich18
  • Oxford16
  • Barcelona14
  • Amsterdam12
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Source: Dealroom.co, 9 November 2026. Founder education as recorded on Dealroom founder profiles (any degree); 493 of 699 companies have a recorded founder university. A company counts once per university. Studying somewhere does not make a company that university’s spinout. Spinouts as flagged by Dealroom.

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