SSE top 2 in Europe for creating unicorn tech founders
A ”unicorn” is a privately held startup company with a valuation exceeding $1 billion. In a recently released report from early-stage investment firm Antler, SSE ranks among the top three European universities educating future founders of tech startups with unicorn valuations.
The Antler report analyzes a dataset of 845 founders from 387 tech unicorns and includes data from 19 countries across Europe. A prominent example of an SSE-founded startup is fintech company Klarna, a graduate of the School’s startup incubator SSE Business Lab. Other examples include iZettle and King.
SSE shares a split second place in the ranking together with the WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, a leading German business school. This means that SSE alumni outperform graduates of elite schools like the University of Cambridge and the London School of ¹û¶³ÊÓƵ in producing successful tech startups. The only European institution with more graduate founders is the University of Oxford, which is many times larger than SSE.
