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Abu Dhabi

Metro area · United Arab Emirates · Pop. 1.6M

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🦄 Unicorns & $1B exits

Ever reached $1B · chart: new unicorns per year

🐎 Cumulative thoroughbreds

1 currently above $100M revenue

Enterprise value

$11B

Latest combined startup EV

Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in Abu Dhabi

A live treemap of $100M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Each cell is one round into Abu Dhabi-headquartered companies, grouped by Dealroom sector.

Largest rounds in Abu Dhabi - 2026

Every $100M+ VC round into Abu Dhabi-headquartered companies in 2026, grouped by Dealroom sector.

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VC investment

How much venture capital flows into Abu Dhabi

VC investment into Abu Dhabi-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage. Live from the Dealroom Next Gen API.

Location comparison

How Abu Dhabi stacks up

Compare Abu Dhabi with peers from the same country (United Arab Emirates) — switch between combined EV, 5-year EV growth, and a growth × size view. Expand the table for the full ranking.

$36.8B

$33.5B

$31.6B

$31.3B

$28.3B

$28B

$25.4B

$24.6B

Abu Dhabi

$11B

Combined enterprise value of each ecosystem.

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What we don't show on this page (yet)

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Sector breakdown

Where Abu Dhabi's unicorns concentrate

Fintech

AI / Enterprise SW

Health Tech

Biotech

Cybersecurity

Consumer

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Capital autonomy

Abu Dhabi's domestic vs foreign capital mix

% domestic VC by stage

Cross-border lead investors

Sovereign-fund participation

Foreign-LP exposure

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Recent momentum

Abu Dhabi's VC investment trajectory by stage

2024 vs 2025 by stage

Round-size trends

Stage-conversion deltas

Quarterly velocity

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Founder origins

Where Abu Dhabi's startup founders come from

By country of origin

Per capita

Top universities

Top alumni-factory companies

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AI talent

Top employers of AI talent in Abu Dhabi

Core AI roles

Frontier AI roles

YoY hiring growth

Senior + lead engineers

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Deal flow

Live deal flow & funding rounds in Abu Dhabi

New rounds last 30 days

Stage breakdown

Active investors

Round-size trends

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Country United Arab Emirates Asia · Pop. 10.9M · #24 startup ecosystem by EV Region Asia Continent / region · #4 region by EV

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