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Founders With a Known Alma Mater Who Raised a Form D Round Since 2015
Known-alma-mater coverage: founders matched to Wikidata, by university
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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.
Among founders behind venture-style private raises whose school is on record in open data, where they studied. A small, stated share of all founders.
What this chart reads·15 series
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- Form D founders with a known alma mater: Stanford Universityas “Stanford University”latest 2026-08-27
- Form D founders with a known alma mater: Massachusetts Institute of Technologyas “Massachusetts Institute of Technology”latest 2026-08-27
- Form D founders with a known alma mater: Harvard Universityas “Harvard University”latest 2026-08-27
- Form D founders with a known alma mater: University of California, Berkeleyas “University of California, Berkeley”latest 2026-08-27
- Form D founders with a known alma mater: Yale Universityas “Yale University”latest 2026-08-27
- Form D founders with a known alma mater: Cornell Universityas “Cornell University”latest 2026-08-27
- Form D founders with a known alma mater: Georgetown Universityas “Georgetown University”latest 2026-08-27
- Form D founders with a known alma mater: Carnegie Mellon Universityas “Carnegie Mellon University”latest 2026-08-27
- Form D founders with a known alma mater: Princeton Universityas “Princeton University”latest 2026-08-27
- Form D founders with a known alma mater: University of Chicagoas “University of Chicago”latest 2026-08-27
- Form D founders with a known alma mater: Brown Universityas “Brown University”latest 2026-08-27
- Form D founders with a known alma mater: University of Pennsylvaniaas “University of Pennsylvania”latest 2026-08-27
- Form D founders with a known alma mater: University of Washingtonas “University of Washington”latest 2026-08-27
- Form D founders with a known alma mater: Columbia Universityas “Columbia University”latest 2026-08-27
- Form D founders with a known alma mater: University of Michiganas “University of Michigan”latest 2026-08-27
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Form D founders with a known alma mater: Stanford University. 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).
Form D founders with a known alma mater: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 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).
Form D founders with a known alma mater: Harvard University. 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).
Form D founders with a known alma mater: University of California, Berkeley. 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).
Form D founders with a known alma mater: Yale University. 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).
Form D founders with a known alma mater: Cornell University. 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).
Form D founders with a known alma mater: Georgetown University. 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).
Form D founders with a known alma mater: Carnegie Mellon University. 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).
Form D founders with a known alma mater: Princeton University. 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).
Form D founders with a known alma mater: University of Chicago. 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).
Form D founders with a known alma mater: Brown University. 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).
Form D founders with a known alma mater: University of Pennsylvania. 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).
Form D founders with a known alma mater: University of Washington. 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).
Form D founders with a known alma mater: Columbia University. 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).
Form D founders with a known alma mater: University of Michigan. 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).
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