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Geneva

Metro area · Switzerland · Pop. 500K

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$24B+42%
Combined startup EV
$245.3M
VC invested (last 12mo)
250
Tracked startups
#23/ 199
Unicorns per 1M people · cities rank
🦄 Unicorns
4
4 live $1B+ companies
💎 Decacorns
0
🐎 Thoroughbreds
4
Top 1% growth · $500M+

Enterprise value · 2015–2025

Geneva grew 6.6× since 2015

Combined enterprise value of every tracked startup headquartered in Geneva that's still operating today — public and private companies combined, totalled by founding-year cohort.

0 $7.5B $15B $22.5B $30B Geneva · $24B 2015 2018 2021 2024 2025

Adjacent cities by EV

Startup funnel

Geneva'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.

Pre-Seed
52
Seed
59
Series A
42
Series B
14
Series C
11
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.

Notable companies

Top private companies in Geneva

Up to 20 names per tier from Dealroom's tracked dataset. Decacorns are valued $10B+, unicorns $1B+, thoroughbreds have crossed $100M in revenue.

Unicorns $1B+ valuation 4
TemenosSonarAdvanced Accelerator ApplicationsTechMet
Thoroughbreds+ $100M+ revenue 4
TemenosCrescendoAdvanced Accelerator ApplicationsSonar

Academia

Geneva's academic flywheel

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

University-linked startup formation
71
University spinouts
149
Total alumni-founded companies
100
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
36
Breakouts ($15M-100M)
13
Scaleups ($100M+)

Vs. similarly-sized ecosystems

How Geneva stacks up

Peers chosen from the same country (Switzerland), sized closest to Geneva by combined EV. The scatter plots growth × current size — outliers in the upper-right are ecosystems compounding fastest.

Combined enterprise value
$87.9B
Geneva
$24B
$22.4B
$18.4B
$227.2M
EV growth (5-yr ×) vs current EV

Top overview

Switzerland — top cities

Top cities in Switzerland ranked by combined EV. Geneva's row is highlighted.

# Ecosystem Combined EV 5-yr EV growth Unicorns VC invested Tracked startups
1 Zurich $87.9B 2.4× 17 $1.1B 1,015
2 Geneva $24B 5.9× 4 $245.3M 250
3 Lausanne $22.4B 4.3× 7 $1.1B 433
4 Basel $18.4B 5.3× 6 $621.8M 174
5 Winterthur $227.2M 0 $12.2M 26

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