A new study of successfully funded startups reveals which US universities produce the most startup entrepreneurs.

Stanford University produces the most venture capital backed startup founders in the US, according to research by tech blogger Max Woolf.

Using data aggregated from deal tracker Crunchbase, Woolf obtained information on around 2,500 startup founders in the US which had received backing from venture capitalists, and where those founders went to university.

Rather unsurprisingly, the Silicon Valley-based Stanford came top of the list with 193 founders. The top ten looks like this:

  1. Stanford – 193
  2. Harvard -120
  3. Massachusetts…

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