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Brisbane

Metro area · Australia · Pop. 2.6M

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299 Pool of Funded Startups
New Startups
121 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures
44 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment
get funded 36%
264Startups
109 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M
92 Seed Startups$1–4M
Pre-Seed to Seed 5.0%
63 Series A Startups$4–15M
Seed to Series A 14%
29Breakouts
21 Series B Breakouts$15–40M
8 Series C Breakouts$40–100M
6Scaleups
4 Mega Scaleups$100–250M
reach Mega 1.3%
2 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+
reach Mega+ 0.67%
4Valuation Outcomes
4 Unicorns($1–10B valuation)
reach Unicorn 1.3%
Pre-Seed
109
Seed
92
Series A
63
Series B
21
Series C
8
Unicorn
4

* 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 Brisbane

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

Largest rounds in Brisbane - 2026

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

How much venture capital flows into Brisbane

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

Academia

Brisbane's academic flywheel

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

University-linked startup formation
177
University spinouts
298
Total alumni-founded companies
206
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
75
Breakouts ($15M-100M)
17
Scaleups ($100M+)

Location comparison

How Brisbane stacks up

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

Sydney
$179B
Melbourne
$63.5B
Brisbane
$11.5B
Perth
$5.1B
Adelaide
$3.1B

Combined enterprise value of each ecosystem.

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What we don't show on this page (yet)

Sector breakdowns, founder origins, AI-talent leaderboards and live deal flow are gated to logged-in Dealroom users. Book a demo to access the full Brisbane dataset — or see a sample on the Dealroom app.

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