Full Top 50 founder-density ranking: Palantir #1, Stanford #2, Yahoo #3, Google only #33
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-11-02
The full Top 50 'incubator' chart ranks institutions by top-VC-backed founders per 1,000 staff: Palantir leads at 16.5 (alumni include Wonder, ElevenLabs), Stanford follows at 14.2, Yahoo is #3 at 10.6, with UC Berkeley and X (Twitter) tied at #4. Pass rates, notable alumni startups, and status flags (shrank/acquired/est.) are included; Google sits at just #33, Microsoft #38, NVIDIA #44. The metric rewards per-capita founder output, not raw counts.
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