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Bengaluru

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

A public taster of the full Bengaluru ecosystem on Dealroom — request a demo for live deal flow, founder pedigrees, AI-talent maps, and the full cap table for every company below.

🦄 Unicorns & $1B exits
48
Ever reached $1B · chart: new unicorns per year
🐎 Cumulative thoroughbreds
45
44 currently above $100M revenue
Enterprise value
$294B
Latest combined startup EV

Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in Bengaluru

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

Largest rounds in Bengaluru - 2026

Every $100M+ VC round into Bengaluru-headquartered companies in 2026, grouped by Dealroom sector.
- rounds · - raised
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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. Live from the Dealroom Next Gen API.

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.

Top universities producing founders tied to Bengaluru
  • 🇮🇳 Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru · 28 alumni unicorns
    Notable alumni-founded: Strand Life Sciences
  • 🇮🇳 IIT Bombay Mumbai · 90 alumni unicorns
    Notable alumni-founded: FlipkartOYORazorpayPostman
  • 🇮🇳 IIT Delhi New Delhi · 75 alumni unicorns
    Notable alumni-founded: ZomatoSnapdeal

Location comparison

How Bengaluru stacks up

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

Bengaluru
$294B
$243B
$228B
$36.8B
$31.3B
$28B
$9.8B
$8.6B

Combined enterprise value of each ecosystem.

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
16.2×
7 unicorns · 18.4% of global sector
9.06×
18 unicorns · 10.3% of global sector
🥗 Food
7.86×
5 unicorns · 8.9% of global sector
4.62×
16 unicorns · 5.2% of global sector
❤️‍🩹 Health Tech & Medtech
3.72×
6 unicorns · 4.2% of global sector
3.39×
1 unicorns · 3.8% of global sector
🤖 AI
2.48×
9 unicorns · 2.8% of global sector

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