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United States · Founded 1919

UCLA

LA's anchor for media and consumer · Los Angeles, CA

UCLA underpins LA's entertainment-tech and consumer scenes — alumni founded Snap, Riot Games, GoodRx, and a wave of media startups.

$180B+29%
Combined EV of alumni-founded startups
60
Alumni unicorns
+4 new in 2025
4,599
Alumni-founded companies
3,789 alumni founders

Peer founder factories by alumni-unicorn count

Startup funnel

UCLA's alumni power-law funnel

See how UCLA's 4,599 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.

UCLA alumni funnel

All sectors · companies founded by UCLA alumni

4,599 Alumni-Founded Companies 3,789 alumni founders
405 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures
446 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment
get funded 110.1%
846 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M
1,352 Seed Startups$1–4M
Pre-Seed to Seed 159.8%
1,113 Series A Startups$4–15M
Seed to Series A 82.3%
607 Series B Breakouts$15–40M
A to Series B 54.5%
340 Series C Breakouts$40–100M
B to Series C 56.0%
207 Mega Scaleups$100–250M
reach Mega 4.5%
133 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+
reach Mega+ 2.9%
60 Unicorns$1–10B valuation
reach unicorn 1.3%
4 Decacorns$10–100B valuation
reach decacorn 0.087%

Where alumni build

UCLA alumni — sector & city breakdown

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

By sector
By city
1 Los Angeles, US 22
2 Bay Area, US 18
3 New York, US 6

Featured alumni companies

Headliners founded by UCLA alumni

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

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about UCLA

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