Form D founders with a known alma mater, share of people named

## What this measures

Of the distinct people (by name and issuer) named as executive officers, directors or promoters on venture-style Form D raises filed in each year, the share matched to a Wikidata person with a school on record.

## Why it matters

It is the coverage behind every founders-by-university count Palanor publishes: small, and stated so the counts are read as what they are.

## How to read it

2026: 0.14%. Low by design: matching requires both an exact name and the exact company, because a wrong match is worse than a missing one.

## What it does not say

It is not the share of founders with a degree. It is the share Palanor can name a school for from open data.

## How it's built

See the founders-by-university series: same match, same rules.

## 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).