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Ankara

Metro area · Türkiye · Pop. 5.2M

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$1.9B+90%
Combined startup EV
$45M
VC invested (last 12mo)
203
Tracked startups
🦄 Unicorns
0
💎 Decacorns
0
🐎 Thoroughbreds
0
Top 1% growth · $500M+

Enterprise value · 2015–2025

Ankara grew 38.3× since 2015

Combined enterprise value of every tracked startup headquartered in Ankara that's still operating today — public and private companies combined, totalled by founding-year cohort.

0 $500M $1B $1.5B $2B Ankara · $1.9B 2015 2018 2021 2024 2025

Adjacent cities by EV

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
73
Seed
30
Series A
16
Series B
2
Series C
3

* C→Unicorn and Unicorn→Decacorn rates are derived from current counts (no founding-cohort data); the four mid-funnel rates use Dealroom's cohort tracking.

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
11
University spinouts
269
Total alumni-founded companies
222
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
34
Breakouts ($15M-100M)
13
Scaleups ($100M+)

Vs. similarly-sized ecosystems

How Ankara stacks up

Peers chosen from the same country (Türkiye), sized closest to Ankara by combined EV. The scatter plots growth × current size — outliers in the upper-right are ecosystems compounding fastest.

Combined enterprise value
$5.5B
$3.9B
$3.7B
$2B
Ankara
$1.9B
$1.6B
$1.4B
$1.4B
$1.4B
EV growth (5-yr ×) vs current EV
peer median 7.8× 1.1× 369.0× 737.0× $1.9B $59.9B $1.9T EV growth (5yr ×) Combined enterprise value (log) Yangtze Delta Region Jingjinji Metropolitan Region Beijing Shenzhen Shanghai Hangzhou Tel Aviv Seoul Singapore Bengaluru Tokyo Delhi Mumbai Ankara

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Sector breakdown
Where Ankara's unicorns concentrate
Fintech
AI / Enterprise SW
Health Tech
Biotech
Cybersecurity
Consumer
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Capital autonomy
Ankara'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
Ankara'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 Ankara'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 Ankara
Core AI roles
Frontier AI roles
YoY hiring growth
Senior + lead engineers
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Deal flow
Live deal flow & funding rounds in Ankara
New rounds last 30 days
Stage breakdown
Active investors
Round-size trends
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