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Wharton ranks high in PitchBook’s list of top 100 universities for startup founders

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Google’s CEO. Twitter’s new dad. Josh K. Several Trumps.

What do they have in common? They all attended The Wharton School at Philly’s Ivy League, the University of Pennsylvania.

PitchBook just released its 2022 lists of top 100 universities based on the startup founders they produce, and Penn ranked high on all four lists: undergraduate, graduate, female founders undergraduate and female founders graduate. The ranking is based primarily on how many alumni entrepreneurs have founded venture capital-backed companies.