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École Polytechnique

France's deep-tech academy · Palaiseau

Polytechnique alumni anchor the French deep-tech and AI scenes — Mistral, Owkin, Hugging Face, BlaBlaCar. The Grandes Écoles' founder factory.

$175B+34%
Combined EV of alumni-founded startups
60
Alumni unicorns
+6 new in 2025
1,571
Alumni-founded companies
1,464 alumni founders

Peer founder factories by alumni-unicorn count

Startup funnel

École Polytechnique's alumni power-law funnel

See how École Polytechnique's 1,571 alumni-founded companies narrow through funding rounds to unicorn, decacorn and titan outcomes. Early-stage round counts are blurred — the full per-round funnel is on the Dealroom platform.

École Polytechnique alumni funnel

All sectors · companies founded by École Polytechnique alumni

1,571 Alumni-Founded Companies 1,464 alumni founders
138 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures
152 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment
get funded 110.1%
289 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M
462 Seed Startups$1–4M
Pre-Seed to Seed 159.9%
380 Series A Startups$4–15M
Seed to Series A 82.3%
207 Series B Breakouts$15–40M
A to Series B 54.5%
116 Series C Breakouts$40–100M
B to Series C 56.0%
71 Mega Scaleups$100–250M
reach Mega 4.5%
46 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+
reach Mega+ 2.9%
60 Unicorns$1–10B valuation
reach unicorn 3.8%
4 Decacorns$10–100B valuation
reach decacorn 0.25%

Where alumni build

École Polytechnique alumni — sector & city breakdown

Top sectors and headquarter cities for unicorns founded by École Polytechnique alumni.

By sector
1 AI 14
3 Fintech 8
4 Energy 6
By city
1 Paris, FR 40
2 Bay Area, US 8
3 London, UK 6

Featured alumni companies

Headliners founded by École Polytechnique alumni

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Market sentiment

What the market is saying about École Polytechnique

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about École Polytechnique on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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