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Form D Founders With a Known Alma Mater
Share of people named on venture-style Form D raises matched to a school, %
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Known-alma-mater coverage only: people named on venture-style Form D raises since 2015 matched to Wikidata by exact name and company, a small share of all founders (see the coverage chart). Not comparable with commercial startup databases.
The coverage behind the founders-by-university chart: matching requires an exact name and company, so it is small by design.
What this chart reads
- Form D founders with a known alma mater, share of people namedas “Known alma mater”latest 2026-12-31
Sources
Form D founders with a known alma mater, share of people named. Source: Palanor calculation from the SEC Form D data sets (public domain) and Wikidata (CC0), with institutions from the Research Organization Registry (ror.org, CC0).
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.