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Bengaluru

Metro area · India · Pop. 8.4M · #20 city by EV

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2,627 Pool of Funded Startups

New Startups

851 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures

270 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment

get funded 32%

2,167Startups

1,040 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M

696 Seed Startups$1–4M

Pre-Seed to Seed 28%

431 Series A Startups$4–15M

Seed to Series A 31%

338Breakouts

204 Series B Breakouts$15–40M

A to Series B 51%

134 Series C Breakouts$40–100M

B to Series C 44%

122Scaleups

66 Mega Scaleups$100–250M

reach Mega 2.5%

56 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+

reach Mega+ 2.1%

51Valuation Outcomes

48 Unicorns($1–10B valuation)

reach Unicorn 1.8%

3 Decacorns($10–100B valuation)

reach Decacorn 0.11%

Pre-Seed

1,040

Seed

696

Series A

431

Series B

204

Series C

134

Unicorn

Decacorn

* 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.

Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in Bengaluru

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

Largest rounds in Bengaluru - 2026

Every $40M+ VC round into Bengaluru-headquartered companies in 2026, grouped by Dealroom sector.

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VC investment

How much venture capital flows into Bengaluru

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

Academia

Bengaluru's academic flywheel

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

University ranking By notable alumni-founded companies based in Bengaluru

#	University	City	Based here	Companies
1	🇮🇳IIT Bombay	Mumbai	38	1,927
2	🇮🇳IIT Delhi	New Delhi	28	943
3	🇮🇳Indian Institute of Science (IISc)	Bengaluru	18	394
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Location comparison

How Bengaluru stacks up

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

Bengaluru

$295B

$244B

$229B

$36.9B

$30.3B

$28.1B

$9.8B

$8.6B

Combined enterprise value of each ecosystem.

Top cities in India ranked by combined EV. Bengaluru's row is highlighted (#1).

#	Ecosystem	Combined EV	EV growth	Unicorns	VC invested	Tracked startups
1	Bengaluru	$295B	6.3×	51	$6B	3,688
2	Mumbai	$244B	15.2×	26	$2.8B	2,034
3	Delhi	$229B	6.0×	30	$3B	2,481
4	Pune	$36.9B	12.1×	7	$334.8M	535
5	Chennai	$30.3B	6.0×	9	$522.9M	548
6	Hyderabad	$28.1B	6.1×	4	$159.4M	657
7	Jaipur	$9.8B	11.9×	0	$27.9M	128
8	Ahmedabad	$8.6B	11.1×	2	$346M	255

Sector concentration

Where Bengaluru punches above its weight

Sectors in which Bengaluru's share of the global unicorn pool is bigger than its overall share. A 5× over-index means Bengaluru is 5× more represented in that sector than in the global average. Source: top-hub aggregation across the 18 simplified sectors.

🎓 Edtech

15.7×

7 unicorns · 18.4% of global sector

🛒 eCommerce & Marketplaces

8.75×

18 unicorns · 10.3% of global sector

🥗 Food

7.59×

5 unicorns · 8.9% of global sector

💼 Other B2B Software

4.46×

16 unicorns · 5.2% of global sector

❤️‍🩹 Health Tech & Medtech

3.59×

6 unicorns · 4.2% of global sector

🧠 Semiconductors

3.27×

1 unicorns · 3.8% of global sector

🤖 AI

2.39×

9 unicorns · 2.8% of global sector

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