Do the tech universities produce more funded graduates than the Ivy League universities? Do the founders from Ivy League universities receive more funding than those from the top-tier tech universities?
If you read start-up funding announcements on tech blogs frequently, you may have noticed that these start-up founders have often attended prestigious universities. Founders who have graduated from Ivy League schools in the US, such as Harvard, Yale and Princeton, unsurprisingly raise millions for their start-ups. Of course, top-tier tech schools such as Stanford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Carnegie Mellon foster a strong technical and entrepreneurial background: attributes which venture capitalists seek when investing in a start-up founder. (Disclosure: Max Woolf, blogger, is a Carnegie Mellon alumnus.)
Do the tech universities produce more funded graduates than the Ivy League universities? Do the founders from Ivy League universities receive more funding than those from the top-tier tech universities?
Using TechCrunch’s CrunchBase application programming interface (API), I obtained the data of about 2,500 company founders in the US who have created a start-up that has received investment from venture capitalists.
With that data, I…
