50% of 2025 RealLIST Startups from the Philly region have an affiliation with a university
Baltimore comes in a close second, with 47% of list members university-affiliated, reflecting the outsized of influence academic institutions in those ecosystems.
A bar chart showing the number of 2025 RealList Startups affiliated with a university: Philadelphia, 10; DC, 6; Baltimore, 8; Pittsburgh, 4