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
