Venture Capital (Midas 100) Data Analysis

So I was really bored and decided to get some data on where the top VC investors live and studied... Pretty interesting if you are considering going into VC:

In terms of location, the bay area is king... 55/100 are in the Bay Area. Thats crazy.

For universities, I only counted US schools and divided by undergrad and grad school. Below is the raw data but the big takeaways are this:

-39% of Investors went to Stanford Grad, or HBS... Thats probably well over half who went to grad school.

-Cornell undergrad was the second most represented school, and Dartmouth had more undergrads than Yale, Princeton, and Harvard. (tied)

-Notable missing schools include: USC (probably the biggest name I would have expected), Northwestern undergrad, NYU anything (obvious more HF than VC), no CALTECH (thats crazy), Vanderbilt, Williams (best liberal arts). 

Yale: 3

University of Arizona: 1

Stanford Graduate: 26

Stanford: 9

UCLA Grad: 1

UCLA; 2

Columbia: 3

UT Austin: 1

Cornell Johnson: 2

DePauw: 1

HBS: 13

Dartmouth: 4

Berkeley: 2

Berkeley Hass: 1

Columbia Grad: 4

MIT Sloan: 5

Cornell: 6

Chicago MBA: 2

University of Iowa: 1

MIT: 3

Washington University: 1

Wharton: 4

Amherst: 1

Princeton: 2

University of Puget Sound: 1

Harvard: 4

Northwestern Kellog: 1

Duke: 2

UPenn: 3

Rice: 1

Georgetown: 2

Boston Uni: 2

University of Miami: 1

Barnard:1

Tuck: 1

Uchicago: 1

University of Illinois: 2

Notre Dame:2

University of Cincinnati: 1

University of Virginia: 2

Northeastern Grad:1

Babson MBA: 1

Brown: 1

Bryn Mawr: 1

University of Washington: 1

UMASS Amherst Grad: 1

Fergusson College: 1

Purdue: 1

Boston College: 1

CaseWestern: 1

Case Western Grad: 1