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Israel · Founded 1956

Tel Aviv University

Israel's commercial-tech engine · Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv University alumni anchor the Israeli cybersecurity, B2B software, and consumer-tech scene. Strong in security, dev tools, and fintech.

$540B+36%

Combined EV of alumni-founded startups

130

Alumni unicorns

+8 new in 2025

3,943

Alumni-founded companies

3,421 alumni founders

Peer founder factories by alumni-unicorn count

#5UC Berkeley #6University of Pennsylvania #7University of Cambridge #8Tel Aviv University #9Peking University #10Technion – Israel Institute of Technology #11University of Oxford

Startup funnel

Tel Aviv University's alumni power-law funnel

See how Tel Aviv University's 3,943 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.

Tel Aviv University alumni funnel

All sectors · companies founded by Tel Aviv University alumni

3,943 Alumni-Founded Companies 3,421 alumni founders

New Startups

347 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures

382 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment

get funded 110.1%

Startups

726 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M

1,159 Seed Startups$1–4M

Pre-Seed to Seed 159.6%

954 Series A Startups$4–15M

Seed to Series A 82.3%

Breakouts

520 Series B Breakouts$15–40M

A to Series B 54.5%

292 Series C Breakouts$40–100M

B to Series C 56.2%

Scaleups

177 Mega Scaleups$100–250M

reach Mega 4.5%

114 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+

reach Mega+ 2.9%

140Valuation Outcomes

130 Unicorns$1–10B valuation

reach unicorn 3.3%

9 Decacorns$10–100B valuation

reach decacorn 0.23%

1 Titans$100B+ valuation

reach titan 0.025%

Where alumni build

Tel Aviv University alumni — sector & city breakdown

Top sectors and headquarter cities for unicorns founded by Tel Aviv University alumni.

By sector

1 Cybersecurity 28

2 B2B Software 24

3 AI 18

4 Fintech 12

5 Health Tech & Medtech 10

By city

1 Tel Aviv, IL 80

2 New York, US 20

3 Bay Area, US 18

4 London, UK 4

Featured alumni companies

Headliners founded by Tel Aviv University alumni

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

Wix decacorn

Alumni-founded · $11B

Monday.com decacorn

Alumni-founded · $13B

Lemonade unicorn

Alumni-founded · $1.5B

Snyk unicorn

Alumni-founded · $7.4B

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Tel Aviv University

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Tel Aviv University 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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