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France · Founded 1957

INSEAD

Europe's MBA-fed unicorn pipeline · Fontainebleau

INSEAD has produced an outsize share of European fintech and B2B SaaS founders — Klarna, Wise, Mews, and a generation of cross-border operators.

$360B+31%

Combined EV of alumni-founded startups

Alumni unicorns

+6 new in 2025

5,677

Alumni-founded companies

4,776 alumni founders

Peer founder factories by alumni-unicorn count

#9Peking University #10Technion – Israel Institute of Technology #11University of Oxford #12INSEAD #13IIT Bombay #14Carnegie Mellon University #15Princeton University

Startup funnel

INSEAD's alumni power-law funnel

See how INSEAD's 5,677 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.

INSEAD alumni funnel

All sectors · companies founded by INSEAD alumni

5,677 Alumni-Founded Companies 4,776 alumni founders

New Startups

500 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures

551 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment

get funded 110.2%

Startups

1,045 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M

1,669 Seed Startups$1–4M

Pre-Seed to Seed 159.7%

1,374 Series A Startups$4–15M

Seed to Series A 82.3%

Breakouts

749 Series B Breakouts$15–40M

A to Series B 54.5%

420 Series C Breakouts$40–100M

B to Series C 56.1%

Scaleups

255 Mega Scaleups$100–250M

reach Mega 4.5%

165 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+

reach Mega+ 2.9%

102Valuation Outcomes

95 Unicorns$1–10B valuation

reach unicorn 1.7%

7 Decacorns$10–100B valuation

reach decacorn 0.12%

Where alumni build

INSEAD alumni — sector & city breakdown

Top sectors and headquarter cities for unicorns founded by INSEAD alumni.

By sector

1 Fintech 22

2 B2B Software 20

3 eCommerce & Marketplaces 12

4 Consumer Services 10

By city

1 London, UK 22

2 Paris, FR 16

3 Singapore 12

4 Bay Area, US 10

Featured alumni companies

Headliners founded by INSEAD alumni

A selection — tap any card for the public Dealroom company profile, or open the live cap-table on the platform.

Klarna decacorn

Alumni-founded · $15B

Wise decacorn

Alumni-founded · $10B

Mews unicorn

Alumni-founded · $1.2B

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about INSEAD

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about INSEAD 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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