Upon seeing Crunchbase’s annual ranking of the best schools for graduating entrepreneurs, we wanted to see how our Knowledge Graph results stack up.
The Diffbot Knowledge Graph is sourced from crawling a majority of the web and extracting entities and facts using NLP and machine vision.
Two prominent entity types are person and organization entities. When paired together powerful observations sourced from across the web are possible. In this exploration we returned all person entities within the Knowledge Graph who are currently founders and who are female. We filtered to make sure each organization had at least some publicly disclosed funding, and then we took a look at a summary view of which schools these founders had attended. You can check out the Knowledge Graph query here with a free trial.
While the top schools for female founders were consistent with Crunchbase’s coverage, you may wonder why the numbers vary so dramatically. Crunchbase’s ranking this year was looking at 2019-2020 graduates, and Crunchbase’s data is centered around tech and startup firmographics. While Diffbot’s Knowledge Graph certainly has firmographic details on tech-centered companies, our database of organizations is much wider ranging (over 250M+ orgs at last count). This means our list includes founders of all sorts of endeavors: non-profits, artistic organizations, medical organizations, and tech companies to name a few.
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