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India · Founded 1909

Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

India's top deep-tech research lab · Bengaluru

IISc alumni anchor India's deep-tech scene in semiconductors, AI, and aerospace — Mindtree, Strand Life Sciences, and a wave of new chip startups.

$70B+36%
Combined EV of alumni-founded startups
28
Alumni unicorns
+2 new in 2025
394
Alumni-founded companies
340 alumni founders

Peer founder factories by alumni-unicorn count

#27TU Munich #28USC #29University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign #30Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Startup funnel

Indian Institute of Science (IISc)'s alumni power-law funnel

See how Indian Institute of Science (IISc)'s 394 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.

Indian Institute of Science (IISc) alumni funnel

All sectors · companies founded by Indian Institute of Science (IISc) alumni

394 Alumni-Founded Companies 340 alumni founders
35 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures
38 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment
get funded 108.6%
72 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M
116 Seed Startups$1–4M
Pre-Seed to Seed 161.1%
95 Series A Startups$4–15M
Seed to Series A 81.9%
52 Series B Breakouts$15–40M
A to Series B 54.7%
29 Series C Breakouts$40–100M
B to Series C 55.8%
18 Mega Scaleups$100–250M
reach Mega 4.6%
11 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+
reach Mega+ 2.8%
28 Unicorns$1–10B valuation
reach unicorn 7.1%
2 Decacorns$10–100B valuation
reach decacorn 0.51%

Where alumni build

Indian Institute of Science (IISc) alumni — sector & city breakdown

Top sectors and headquarter cities for unicorns founded by Indian Institute of Science (IISc) alumni.

By city
1 Bengaluru, IN 18
2 Bay Area, US 4

Featured alumni companies

Headliners founded by Indian Institute of Science (IISc) alumni

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Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Indian Institute of Science (IISc) 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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