- Published on July 3, 2023
- In AI Features
Stanford as a Service
If you look at all the startups getting funded lately, there is a secret recipe -- having a co-founder out of either Stanford, MIT, or Harvard
- By Mohit Pandey
What does it take to build a company? A good product, a good team, and good funding. For the first one, you need to start out with an idea. In today’s world, it is probably anything related to AI or generative AI. For grabbing the latter two, if you look at all the startups that are getting funded lately, there is a secret recipe -- having a co-founder out of either Stanford, MIT, or Harvard.
It cannot be exactly causation, but there is some correlation between raising huge funds and being a top university graduate. Each year, Crunchbase tallies up which US university graduates received the highest number of recently funded startups. Through 2022-23, Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, Harvard, and Cornell have the highest number of funded founders. Similarly, through 2021-22, it was the same
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Mohit Pandey
Mohit writes about AI in simple, explainable, and often funny words. He's especially passionate about chatting with those building AI for Bharat, with the occasional detour into AGI.
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