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Canada · Founded 1827

University of Toronto

The cradle of modern AI · Toronto

U Toronto produced Geoffrey Hinton, Ilya Sutskever, and a generation of researchers who built the modern AI industry. Shopify, Cohere, and Wattpad alumni anchor the Canadian unicorn cluster.

$240B+35%
Combined EV of alumni-founded startups
65
Alumni unicorns
+6 new in 2025
3,454
Alumni-founded companies
3,086 alumni founders

Peer founder factories by alumni-unicorn count

Startup funnel

University of Toronto's alumni power-law funnel

See how University of Toronto's 3,454 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 Toronto alumni funnel

All sectors · companies founded by University of Toronto alumni

3,454 Alumni-Founded Companies 3,086 alumni founders
304 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures
335 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment
get funded 110.2%
636 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M
1,015 Seed Startups$1–4M
Pre-Seed to Seed 159.6%
836 Series A Startups$4–15M
Seed to Series A 82.4%
456 Series B Breakouts$15–40M
A to Series B 54.5%
256 Series C Breakouts$40–100M
B to Series C 56.1%
155 Mega Scaleups$100–250M
reach Mega 4.5%
100 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+
reach Mega+ 2.9%
65 Unicorns$1–10B valuation
reach unicorn 1.9%
6 Decacorns$10–100B valuation
reach decacorn 0.17%
1 Titans$100B+ valuation
reach titan 0.029%

Where alumni build

University of Toronto alumni — sector & city breakdown

Top sectors and headquarter cities for unicorns founded by University of Toronto alumni.

By sector
By city
1 Toronto, CA 30
2 Bay Area, US 14
3 Vancouver, CA 6
4 New York, US 6

Featured alumni companies

Headliners founded by University of Toronto 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 Toronto

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