A Stanford GSB professor specializing in unicorns and other startup data has announced new findings, including which university’s alumni generate the most billion dollars.
Which university boasts the most alumni who have founded “unicorns” – companies backed by venture capital that are worth a billion dollars or more?
Earlier this month, Ilya Strebulev, professor of finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and once Poets and Volumes The Professor of the Week announced the latest batch of data from the school’s initiative that analyzes the venture capital and innovation ecosystem. The data shows that his academic home, Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, leads all US universities with nearly 300 alumni who have launched more than 200 unicorns – compared to the next school on the list, Harvard. Companies over $40 billion.