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United States · Founded 1861

MIT

Where deep tech becomes a venture · Cambridge, MA

Massachusetts Institute of Technology — the alma mater of more deep-tech founders than any other school. Strong in robotics, semiconductors, biotech, defence, and AI fundamentals.

$3.4T+33%

Combined EV of alumni-founded startups

295

Alumni unicorns

+18 new in 2025

9,472

Alumni-founded companies

7,513 alumni founders

Peer founder factories by alumni-unicorn count

#1Stanford University #2Harvard University #3MIT #4Tsinghua University #5UC Berkeley #6University of Pennsylvania

Startup funnel

MIT's alumni power-law funnel

See how MIT's 9,472 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.

MIT alumni funnel

All sectors · companies founded by MIT alumni

9,472 Alumni-Founded Companies 7,513 alumni founders

New Startups

834 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures

919 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment

get funded 110.2%

Startups

1,743 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M

2,785 Seed Startups$1–4M

Pre-Seed to Seed 159.8%

2,292 Series A Startups$4–15M

Seed to Series A 82.3%

Breakouts

1,250 Series B Breakouts$15–40M

A to Series B 54.5%

701 Series C Breakouts$40–100M

B to Series C 56.1%

Scaleups

426 Mega Scaleups$100–250M

reach Mega 4.5%

275 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+

reach Mega+ 2.9%

329Valuation Outcomes

295 Unicorns$1–10B valuation

reach unicorn 3.1%

28 Decacorns$10–100B valuation

reach decacorn 0.30%

6 Titans$100B+ valuation

reach titan 0.063%

Where alumni build

MIT alumni — sector & city breakdown

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

By sector

1 AI 58

2 B2B Software 48

3 Biotech & Life Sciences 42

4 Robotics 22

5 Energy 18

6 Semiconductors 16

By city

1 Boston, US 120

2 Bay Area, US 90

3 New York, US 24

4 London, UK 8

Featured alumni companies

Headliners founded by MIT alumni

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

Akamai decacorn

Alumni-founded · $15B

Dropbox decacorn

Alumni-founded · $10B

HubSpot decacorn

Alumni-founded · $28B

iRobot unicorn

Alumni-founded · $1.4B

Boston Dynamics unicorn

Alumni-founded · $1B

Commonwealth Fusion Systems unicorn

Alumni-founded · $3.6B

Moderna decacorn

Alumni-founded · $36B

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about MIT

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