Tel Aviv University has been ranked eighth in the world and first outside the US in terms in an international index of entrepreneurs for 2020 compiled by the PitchBook financial platform, the university announced Tuesday.
The PitchBook index looks at universities worldwide in terms of the number of their graduates who become entrepreneurs.
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A total of 807 BA graduates of TAU have founded 673 companies and raised a total of $16.1 billion in capital.
Meanwhile, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology was ranked 12th; the Hebrew University of Jerusalem placed 32nd; and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev was ranked 46th.
