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Cairo

Metro area · Egypt · Pop. 20.9M

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368 Pool of Funded Startups
162 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures
67 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment
get funded 42%
196 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M
90 Seed Startups$1–4M
Pre-Seed to Seed 18%
49 Series A Startups$4–15M
Seed to Series A 17%
17 Series B Breakouts$15–40M
A to Series B 24%
9 Series C Breakouts$40–100M
5 Mega Scaleups$100–250M
reach Mega 1.4%
2 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+
reach Mega+ 0.54%
4 Unicorns($1–10B valuation)
reach Unicorn 1.1%
Pre-Seed
196
Seed
90
Series A
49
Series B
17
Series C
9
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.

Quarterly report

Cairo's latest quarter in venture capital

VC raised by Cairo-headquartered companies in the quarter shown, against the quarter before and the same quarter a year earlier.

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Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in Cairo

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

Largest rounds in Cairo - 2026

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

How much venture capital flows into Cairo

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

Academia

Cairo's academic flywheel

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

University-linked startup formation
17
University spinouts
393
Total alumni-founded companies
292
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
79
Breakouts ($15M-100M)
22
Scaleups ($100M+)

Location comparison

How Cairo stacks up

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

$14.4B
Cairo
$12.1B
$10.1B
$8.4B
$7.3B
$2B

Combined enterprise value of each ecosystem.

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