Madrid, Spain /
IE Business School occupies third place in Europe in the category PitchBook MBA University Rankings 2024an internationally recognized report that evaluates entrepreneurs graduates from universities and business schools around the world whose startups have participated in funding rounds over the last decade.
The ranking analyzes data from PitchBook on global venture capital investment, as well as the educational profile of almost 167 thousand entrepreneurs.
IE Business School occupies the third position in Europe in the MBA category, with 256 entrepreneurs and 224 companies that in total have received 5.7 billion dollars of financing. In Master programs, it is in ninth place in Europe, with 335 entrepreneurs and 296 startups that have raised 9 billion dollars in venture capital.
The academic institution, recognized for its footprint in the innovative and entrepreneurial ecosystem, ranks 21st worldwide in the category of MBA graduates, with 24 entrepreneurs who together They have received 169 million dollars in venture capital to launch and boost their startups.
“At IE University we are proud to be recognized among the world’s leading entrepreneurial institutions. These rankings reflect the extraordinary talent of our graduates, reaffirming our commitment to innovation, creativity and impact initiatives,” said Juan José Güemes, Vice President of IE University and President of the IE Entrepreneurship & Innovation Center.
While David Suarez, Vice Dean of IE Business School, expressed that “At IE Business School we work to equip our students with an entrepreneurial mindset that reinforces their learning experience and their development as business leaders capable of facing future challenges”.
Poolside, a unicorn led by IE University graduates
The entrepreneurial projects developed by the community of IE University students and graduates stand out internationally. As an example, the Poolside unicorn, a software development platform powered by Artificial intelligence led by two IE graduates, Eiso Kant and Margarida García, along with former GitHub CTO Jason Warner, recently received $626 million in a Series B-led funding round. by Bain Capital Ventures, with the participation of eBay Ventures and Nvidia, which raised its valuation to 3 billion dollars.
Recognized as one of the most innovative universities in the world, IE University is an institution founded by and for entrepreneurs who works every day to strengthen the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Entrepreneurship is one of its values and the institution’s commitment extends to promoting intrapreneurshipsupport entrepreneurial students and graduates in the start-up of their startupspromote international networking opportunities and develop personalized coaching and mentoring programs. Reflecting this work, 30 percent of graduates undertake entrepreneurship throughout their professional career.
The IE Entrepreneurship & Innovation Center provides students with access to investors, mentors and a global network of recognized entrepreneurs to strengthen their entrepreneurial profile and facilitate the launch of their startups. Area 31the IE Business School incubator, is a workspace dedicated to promote entrepreneurship and innovationan ecosystem in which students learn from the experience and knowledge of visionary and disruptive entrepreneurs and experts.
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