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Athens

Metro area · Greece · Pop. 3.5M

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170 Pool of Funded Startups

New Startups

52 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures

18 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment

get funded 35%

157Startups

90 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M

35 Seed Startups$1–4M

32 Series A Startups$4–15M

10Breakouts

5 Series B Breakouts$15–40M

5 Series C Breakouts$40–100M

3Scaleups

1 Mega Scaleups$100–250M

reach Mega 0.59%

2 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+

reach Mega+ 1.2%

3Valuation Outcomes

3 Unicorns($1–10B valuation)

reach Unicorn 1.8%

Pre-Seed

Seed

Series A

Series B

Series C

Unicorn

* Conversion rates are derived from current counts.

Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in Athens

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

Largest rounds in Athens - 2026

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

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VC investment

How much venture capital flows into Athens

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

Academia

Athens's academic flywheel

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

University-linked startup formation

University spinouts

205

Total alumni-founded companies

140

Of which startups (<$15M raised)

Breakouts ($15M-100M)

Scaleups ($100M+)

Location comparison

How Athens stacks up

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

Kyiv

$29.4B

Oxford

$27.8B

Yorkshire and the Humber

$27.1B

$24.5B

$23.2B

$23.2B

$22.9B

$22B

Athens

$8.6B

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 Athens's unicorns concentrate

Fintech

AI / Enterprise SW

Health Tech

Biotech

Cybersecurity

Consumer

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Capital autonomy

Athens'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

Athens'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 Athens'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 Athens

Core AI roles

Frontier AI roles

YoY hiring growth

Senior + lead engineers

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Deal flow

Live deal flow & funding rounds in Athens

New rounds last 30 days

Stage breakdown

Active investors

Round-size trends

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Country Greece Europe · Pop. 10.4M Region Europe Continent / region · #7 region by EV

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