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🚀 CMU & Pitt Startup Ecosystem Analysis

Overview

This analysis examines 34 startups founded by alumni from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt). The dataset provides insights into funding patterns, geographic distribution, and institutional representation in the startup ecosystem.

📈 Key Findings

Funding Landscape

Total Capital Raised: $119.47 Million across all startups
Average Funding: $3.51 Million per startup
Median Funding: $1.30 Million (indicating right-skewed distribution)

Funding Distribution

Funded Startups: 24 companies (70.6%)
Unfunded Startups: 10 companies (29.4%)
Top Funded: Stratus Materials ($22M), CAMB.AI ($18.5M), RoboForce & ener

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import pandas as pd...

Dataset Overview:
Total rows: 34
Total columns: 6

First few rows:
   Number                     Startup  \
0       1                    Solyx AI   
1       2               Perforated AI   
2       3                  Impulse AI   
3       4                        Alph   
4       5                      Strata   
5       6                     CAMB.AI   
6       7                        App0   
7       8                 Namecard.ai   
8       9                   Lyceum AI   
9      10  The Lexsee Reading Company   

                                       Brief Summary  Raised  Country  \
0           Decentralized AI compute infrastructure.   $200K      USA   
1  Perforated AI empowers ML engineers to build A...      $0      USA   
2  AI Machine Learning Engineer that goes from da...     $1M      USA   
3  AI Infra platform for Jupyter notebooks. Think...   $290K      USA   
4  Strata is an embedded integration platform tha...      $0      USA   
5  CAMB.AI is the localization infrastructure for...  $18.5M      USA   
6  App0 is the AI Agent Platform built for eComme...   $3.8M      USA   
7  Warm intros convert at 35%—cold calls at 1%—bu...      $0      USA   
8  We have built an AI-powered corporate training...   $900K      USA   
9  Lexsee tackles the $2.2T literacy crisis—1 in ...   $250K  Denmark   

  University  
0        CMU  
1        CMU  
2        CMU  
3        CMU  
4        CMU  
5        CMU  
6        CMU  
7        CMU  
8        CMU  
9        CMU  

Column types:
Number            int64
Startup          object
Brief Summary    object
Raised           object
Country          object
University       object
dtype: object

Basic statistics:
          Number
count  34.000000
mean   17.500000
std     9.958246
min     1.000000
25%     9.250000
50%    17.500000
75%    25.750000
max    34.000000

Missing values:
Number           0
Startup          0
Brief Summary    0
Raised           0
Country          0
University       0
dtype: int64

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# First, let's see what unique values are in the Raised column...

Unique values in 'Raised' column:
['$200K' '$0' '$1M' '$290K' '$18.5M' '$3.8M' '$900K' '$250K' '$1.6M'
 ' onboarding and retention using multilingual agents.' '$3M' '$2.1M'
 '$2M' '$5M' ' logistics and finance.' 'Bootstrapped' '$2.5M' '$2.2M'
 '$2.8M' '$4.3M' '$15M'
 ' low-cost autonomous cargo drones built for defense and enterprise logistics.'
 '$4M' '$22M' '$580K' '$10M']


Funding Statistics:
Total funding raised: $119,470,000
Average funding: $3,513,824
Median funding: $1,300,000
Startups with $0 funding: 10
Startups with funding: 24


Country Distribution:
Country
USA         29
Denmark      1
$3.8M        1
$122K        1
$1.7M        1
Colombia     1
Name: count, dtype: int64


University Distribution:
University
CMU           26
Pitt           4
USA            2
India          1
Pitt & CMU     1
Name: count, dtype: int64


Top 10 Funded Startups:
                  Startup  Raised  Raised_Numeric   Country University
29      Stratus Materials    $22M      22000000.0       USA        CMU
5                 CAMB.AI  $18.5M      18500000.0       USA        CMU
24              RoboForce    $15M      15000000.0       USA        CMU
32                enerBit    $15M      15000000.0  Colombia        CMU
33     Tacit Therapeutics    $10M      10000000.0       USA       Pitt
15              AirMettle     $5M       5000000.0       USA        CMU
23         Atlas Robotics   $4.3M       4300000.0       USA        CMU
27  Inevitable Technology     $4M       4000000.0       USA       Pitt
6                    App0   $3.8M       3800000.0       USA        CMU
12            Glacis Labs     $3M       3000000.0       USA        CMU

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# Create comprehensive visualization dashboard...

✅ Dashboard saved as 'startup_analysis_dashboard.png'

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# Additional visualizations for deeper insights into the startup data...

/tmp/ipykernel_596/2951225107.py:23: MatplotlibDeprecationWarning: The 'labels' parameter of boxplot() has been renamed 'tick_labels' since Matplotlib 3.9; support for the old name will be dropped in 3.11.
  bp = plt.boxplot(university_data, labels=['CMU', 'Pitt'], patch_artist=True,

✅ Extended analysis saved as 'extended_startup_analysis.png'

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EXTENDED ANALYSIS SUMMARY
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📊 Funding Categories Distribution:
   No Funding          : 10 startups
   $0-$500K            :  4 startups
   $500K-$2M           :  4 startups
   $2M-$5M             : 10 startups
   $5M-$10M            :  1 startups
   $10M+               :  5 startups

💰 Top 5 vs Bottom 5 (Funded Startups):
   Average of Top 5: $16.10M
   Average of Bottom 5: $0.31M
   Ratio (Top/Bottom): 51.27x

🌍 Country Performance:
   Colombia: $15.00M average funding
   USA: $3.59M average funding
   Denmark: $0.25M average funding

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