Business schools' efforts to bolster their start-up ecosystems are bearing fruit, with the top-20's MBA ventures securing billions in funding from venture capital firms.
Business schools have been nurturing start-up ecosystems and ventures launched by MBA students have secured vast amounts of funding, according to new data.
Start-ups founded by MBAs from the top-20 business schools have raised $4.4 billion in combined investment in the past five years from angel networks and venture capital funds.