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USC

LA's other founder pipeline · Los Angeles, CA

USC alumni span entertainment, gaming, and consumer — Activision-Blizzard, Tinder, and a generation of media founders.

$130B+28%
Combined EV of alumni-founded startups
48
Alumni unicorns
+3 new in 2025
3,752
Alumni-founded companies
3,104 alumni founders

Peer founder factories by alumni-unicorn count

Startup funnel

USC's alumni power-law funnel

See how USC's 3,752 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.

USC alumni funnel

All sectors · companies founded by USC alumni

3,752 Alumni-Founded Companies 3,104 alumni founders
330 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures
364 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment
get funded 110.3%
690 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M
1,103 Seed Startups$1–4M
Pre-Seed to Seed 159.9%
908 Series A Startups$4–15M
Seed to Series A 82.3%
495 Series B Breakouts$15–40M
A to Series B 54.5%
278 Series C Breakouts$40–100M
B to Series C 56.2%
169 Mega Scaleups$100–250M
reach Mega 4.5%
109 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+
reach Mega+ 2.9%
48 Unicorns$1–10B valuation
reach unicorn 1.3%
3 Decacorns$10–100B valuation
reach decacorn 0.080%

Where alumni build

USC alumni — sector & city breakdown

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

By sector
By city
1 Los Angeles, US 22
2 Bay Area, US 12
3 New York, US 4

Featured alumni companies

Headliners founded by USC 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 USC

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