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Revealing the winner of our 2016 VC Founders Bracket

We’ve got the madness! In the spirit of the NCAA basketball tournament, we’ve created a bracket of our own, where the winning universities advance based on the number of VC-backed entrepreneurs the school’s undergrad programs have produced.

By George Gaprindashvili

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It’s time to announce the winner of our VC Founders Tournament!

In the spirit of the NCAA basketball tournament, we created a bracket of our own, where the winning universities advanced based on the number of VC-backed entrepreneurs the school’s undergrad programs have produced. The data comes from our 2015-2016 PitchBook Universities Report.

Check out the final bracket below, where we reveal the winner and list each university’s VC-backed founder count throughout the tournament.

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About George Gaprindashvili

George is the editorial director at PitchBook, overseeing the teams responsible for producing the daily newsletter, website content and research reports.

Born in the country of Georgia, he grew up in the Seattle suburb of Bellevue and graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in communication. In his free time, George enjoys watching and playing sports, eating good food, attending concerts and taking advantage of the Pacific Northwest’s outdoors.