Market Cap Stats for Berkeley Founder Startups
ZeYanjie · x · 2026-07-10
This post compiles data on founders who originated as PhDs or postdocs at Berkeley Lab, noting that their early research was primarily funded by the NSF and DoD.
It also aggregates the market caps of the startups they later founded, with data collected via OpenAI Deep Research.
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