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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Quietly a top-10 founder factory · Urbana, IL

UIUC has a deep engineering tradition — alumni founded Mosaic/Netscape, PayPal, YouTube, AMD, and Yelp.

$280B+29%
Combined EV of alumni-founded startups
48
Alumni unicorns
+4 new in 2025
3,028
Alumni-founded companies
2,571 alumni founders

Peer founder factories by alumni-unicorn count

#26Waterloo #27TU Munich #28USC #29University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign #30Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Startup funnel

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's alumni power-law funnel

See how University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's 3,028 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.

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni funnel

All sectors · companies founded by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni

3,028 Alumni-Founded Companies 2,571 alumni founders
266 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures
294 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment
get funded 110.5%
557 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M
890 Seed Startups$1–4M
Pre-Seed to Seed 159.8%
733 Series A Startups$4–15M
Seed to Series A 82.4%
400 Series B Breakouts$15–40M
A to Series B 54.6%
224 Series C Breakouts$40–100M
B to Series C 56.0%
136 Mega Scaleups$100–250M
reach Mega 4.5%
88 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+
reach Mega+ 2.9%
48 Unicorns$1–10B valuation
reach unicorn 1.6%
4 Decacorns$10–100B valuation
reach decacorn 0.13%
1 Titans$100B+ valuation
reach titan 0.033%

Where alumni build

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni — sector & city breakdown

Top sectors and headquarter cities for unicorns founded by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni.

By sector
By city
1 Bay Area, US 22
2 Chicago, US 8
3 New York, US 4

Featured alumni companies

Headliners founded by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 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 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 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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