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Ankara

Metro area · Türkiye · Pop. 5.2M

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🦄 Unicorns & $1B exits

Ever reached $1B · annual outcomes, zero-filled

🐎 Thoroughbreds

2024→2025 movement · +0 new

Enterprise value

$1.8B

Actual EV series, 2015-2025

Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in Ankara

A live treemap of the largest VC rounds. Each cell is one round into Ankara-headquartered companies, grouped by Dealroom sector.

Largest rounds in Ankara - 2026

Every $15M+ VC round into Ankara-headquartered companies in 2026, grouped by Dealroom sector.

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Startup funnel

Ankara's power-law funnel

From the first cheque written to a $10B+ outcome. Each arrow shows what fraction of companies at one stage graduate to the next, tracked by founding cohort.

Pre-Seed

Seed

Series A

Series B

Series C

* Conversion rates are derived from current counts.

VC investment

How much venture capital flows into Ankara

VC investment into Ankara-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage.

Academia

Ankara's academic flywheel

Companies founded by university alumni or spun out of research, plus the institutions producing the most founders tied to Ankara.

University-linked startup formation

University spinouts

286

Total alumni-founded companies

235

Of which startups (<$15M raised)

Breakouts ($15M-100M)

Scaleups ($100M+)

Location comparison

How Ankara stacks up

Compare Ankara with peers from the same country (Türkiye) — switch between combined EV, EV growth, and a growth × size view. Expand the table for the full ranking.

$5.5B

$3.9B

$3.4B

$2B

Ankara

$1.9B

Fukuoka

$1.6B