{"id":38062,"date":"2021-12-17T01:37:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T09:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=38062"},"modified":"2021-12-16T19:21:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T03:21:50","slug":"bgu-advances-in-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2021\/12\/17\/bgu-advances-in-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"BGU advances in rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(photo from CABGU)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ranks among the top 50 universities graduating successful entrepreneur company founders from its undergraduate programs, according to Pitchbook, a financial data firm that publishes annual data. BGU moved up two spots from last year\u2019s rankings, marking its third consecutive year on the top 50 list.<\/p>\n<p>BGU has graduated 314 founders whose companies have raised a total of $8.3 billion, according to Pitchbook. Among the top five companies led by BGU entrepreneurs in capital raised are Deel ($630m), Fireblocks ($492m), Exaware ($420m), Fabric ($336m) and Hibob ($277m).<\/p>\n<p>BGU\u2019s entrepreneurial focus is led by Yazamut 360\u00b0, a suite of program offerings designed to enhance BGU\u2019s academic curriculum and infuse entrepreneurship into the DNA of a BGU student.\u00a0Yazamut 360\u00b0 established Cactus Capital \u2013 Israel\u2019s first student-run venture capital fund. It has also created two accelerators, one focused on technology entrepreneurship (Oazis) and one on e-commerce. Oazis pairs faculty members with chief executive officers to create companies through BGN Technologies. The accelerators serve as a resource for all entrepreneurs on campus through professional mentoring, financial consulting and technological consulting.<\/p>\n<p>The 2021 Pitchbook university rankings are based on the number of founders whose companies received a first round of venture funding between Jan. 1, 2006, and Oct. 31, 2021.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 Courtesy Canadian Associates of BGU, B.C. and Alberta Region<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(photo from CABGU) Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ranks among the top 50 universities graduating successful entrepreneur company founders from its undergraduate programs, according to Pitchbook, a financial data firm that publishes annual data. BGU moved up two spots from last year\u2019s rankings, marking its third consecutive year on the top 50 list. BGU has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4329],"tags":[1908,1910,3076,3129,3608,4330,8664,21137],"class_list":["post-38062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel","tag-ben-gurion-university","tag-bgu","tag-education","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-high-tech","tag-israel","tag-milestones","tag-pitchbook"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}