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Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson

Metro area · United States · Pop. 1.6M

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$4.5B+27%
Combined startup EV
$59.2M
VC invested (last 12mo)
168
Tracked startups
#164/ 199
Unicorns per 1M people · cities rank
🦄 Unicorns
1
1 live $1B+ companies
💎 Decacorns
0
🐎 Thoroughbreds
2
Top 1% growth · $500M+

Adjacent cities by EV

Startup funnel

Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson'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
38
Seed
24
Series A
22
Series B
12
Series C
7
Unicorn
1

* 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 Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson

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 1
QuEST Global
Thoroughbreds+ $100M+ revenue 2
QuEST GlobalOb Hospitalist Group

Ecosystem signals

Beyond the headline — Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson's underlying signals

Dealroom's deeper indicators of ecosystem health: where the capital comes from, how universities feed it, and the most recent year-on-year movement.

Capital autonomy
Share of Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson's VC dollars sourced from domestic investors, by funding stage. Lower bars at scaleup mean more reliance on foreign capital for the biggest rounds.
Domestic capital
Startup
92%
8% foreign
Breakout
72%
28% foreign
Academia
Companies founded by university alumni or spun out of research, captured across all tracked startups in Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson.
University-linked startup formation
74
Total alumni-founded companies
46
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
22
Breakouts ($15M-100M)
6
Scaleups ($100M+)
Recent momentum
2024 vs 2025 VC investment by stage in Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson. 2025 figures are year-to-date.
2024 2025
Early ($0-15M)
$35M
$20M
↓ 43%
Breakout ($15-100M)
$24.5M
$36M
↑ 47%

Vs. similarly-sized ecosystems

How Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson stacks up

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

Combined enterprise value
$14.9B
$14.2B
$14.1B
$13.5B
$13B
$12.2B
$11.4B
$10.6B
Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson
$4.5B
EV growth (5-yr ×) vs current EV
peer median 4.0× 1.1× 74.1× 147.0× $4.5B $299B $20.1T EV growth (5yr ×) Combined enterprise value (log) Bay Area Seattle Austin New York City Boston Los Angeles Miami San Diego Washington DC Chicago Dallas Philadelphia Research Triangle Phoenix Atlanta Salt Lake City Denver Minneapolis–Saint Paul Houston Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson

Top overview

United States — top cities

Top cities in United States ranked by combined EV. Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson's row is highlighted.

# Ecosystem Combined EV 5-yr EV growth Unicorns VC invested Tracked startups
1 Bay Area $20.1T 7.9× 777 $157B 24.3K
2 Seattle $3.1T 10.6× 68 $6.6B 2,935
3 Austin $2T 14.0× 56 $8.1B 2,481
4 New York City $1.7T 5.3× 296 $31.2B 16.4K
5 Boston $1.2T 4.7× 185 $13.6B 6,194
6 Los Angeles $1.2T 5.8× 133 $18.3B 8,432
7 Miami $619B 12.9× 33 $2.9B 2,736
8 San Diego $399B 6.2× 52 $3.3B 2,230
9 Washington DC $317B 4.2× 45 $3.5B 2,318
10 Chicago $256B 3.5× 50 $2.1B 2,924
11 Dallas $195B 3.9× 31 $1.5B 1,866
65 Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson $4.5B 3.3× 1 $59.2M 168

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