Even so, it's probable biotech, with its historically high scaling costs, will remain the top sector for fast climbers.
ARCH Venture Partners, a big name in biotech, among other sectors, was another repeat backer of fast climbers, investing in four members of the list.
It backed funding rounds for four of our fast climbers, including Celularity, which is expanding on much of Celgene's work in the placental stem cell sector.
"PSG are the fastest climber in this year's Money League, claiming the highest ever position for a French club.
Other universities rising through the rankings include Leeds (moved from 23 to 16), Falmouth (31 to 21) and City – which jumped from 37 to 18, making it the fastest climber in this year's top 20.
The climb today was so unexpected that The Himalayan Times, a daily newspaper, had a front-page photo of another Sherpa climber, Pembe Dorjie, wrapped in victory garlands and grinning happily under the headline, "Fastest climber says he can do it faster".
Not much of a result for arguably the fastest climber in the world (he once ascended the North Face of the Eiger, traditionally a two-day affair, in two hours and forty-seven minutes), but he feels that he has nothing left to prove.
Sophia was the fastest climber within the girls' top 20, up three places to 16th.
"But what I've learned is you don't have to be the best, strongest, fastest climber to get to the top of the mountain.
