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University of Washington

Seattle's developer pipeline · Seattle, WA

University of Washington is the engineering pipeline for Microsoft, Amazon, and the new Seattle AI scene — Convoy, Outreach, Highspot.

$160B+31%
Combined EV of alumni-founded startups
56
Alumni unicorns
+5 new in 2025
291
Alumni-founded companies
214 alumni founders

Peer founder factories by alumni-unicorn count

Startup funnel

University of Washington's alumni power-law funnel

See how University of Washington's 291 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 Washington alumni funnel

All sectors · companies founded by University of Washington alumni

291 Alumni-Founded Companies 214 alumni founders
26 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures
28 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment
get funded 107.7%
54 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M
86 Seed Startups$1–4M
Pre-Seed to Seed 159.3%
70 Series A Startups$4–15M
Seed to Series A 81.4%
38 Series B Breakouts$15–40M
A to Series B 54.3%
22 Series C Breakouts$40–100M
B to Series C 57.9%
13 Mega Scaleups$100–250M
reach Mega 4.5%
8 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+
reach Mega+ 2.7%
56 Unicorns$1–10B valuation
reach unicorn 19.2%
4 Decacorns$10–100B valuation
reach decacorn 1.4%

Where alumni build

University of Washington alumni — sector & city breakdown

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

By sector
By city
1 Seattle, US 22
2 Bay Area, US 14
3 New York, US 4

Featured alumni companies

Headliners founded by University of Washington 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 Washington

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