Liège
Metro area · Belgium · Pop. 200K
Adjacent cities by EV
Startup funnel
Liège'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.
Notable companies
Top private companies in Liège
Up to 20 names per tier from Dealroom's tracked dataset. Decacorns are valued $10B+, unicorns $1B+, thoroughbreds have crossed $100M in revenue.
Academia
Liège's academic flywheel
Companies founded by university alumni or spun out of research, plus the institutions producing the most founders tied to Liège.
Vs. similarly-sized ecosystems
How Liège stacks up
Peers chosen from the same country (Belgium), sized closest to Liège by combined EV. The scatter plots growth × current size — outliers in the upper-right are ecosystems compounding fastest.
Top overview
Belgium — top cities
Top cities in Belgium ranked by combined EV. Liège's row is highlighted.
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