Cape Town
Metro area · South Africa · Pop. 3.7M
Enterprise value · 2015–2025
Cape Town grew 5.6× since 2015
Combined enterprise value of every tracked startup headquartered in Cape Town that's still operating today — public and private companies combined, totalled by founding-year cohort.
Adjacent cities by EV
Startup funnel
Cape Town's power-law funnel
From the first cheque written to a $10B+ outcome. Each arrow shows what fraction of companies at one stage graduate to the next, tracked by founding cohort.
* 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.
Academia
Cape Town's academic flywheel
Companies founded by university alumni or spun out of research, plus the institutions producing the most founders tied to Cape Town.
Vs. similarly-sized ecosystems
How Cape Town stacks up
Peers chosen from the same country (South Africa), sized closest to Cape Town by combined EV. The scatter plots growth × current size — outliers in the upper-right are ecosystems compounding fastest.
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