Lille
Metro area · France · Pop. 1.2M
Adjacent cities by EV
Startup funnel
Lille'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 Lille
Up to 20 names per tier from Dealroom's tracked dataset. Decacorns are valued $10B+, unicorns $1B+, thoroughbreds have crossed $100M in revenue.
Academia
Lille's academic flywheel
Companies founded by university alumni or spun out of research, plus the institutions producing the most founders tied to Lille.
Vs. similarly-sized ecosystems
How Lille stacks up
Peers chosen from the same country (France), sized closest to Lille by combined EV. The scatter plots growth × current size — outliers in the upper-right are ecosystems compounding fastest.
Top overview
France — top cities
Top cities in France ranked by combined EV. Lille's row is highlighted.
| # | Ecosystem | Combined EV | 5-yr EV growth | Unicorns | VC invested | Tracked startups |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paris | $296B | 6.0× | 53 | $6.2B | 5,075 |
| 2 | Lyon | $14.3B | 4.4× | 1 | $202.8M | 486 |
| 3 | Grenoble | $14.1B | 6.7× | 2 | $216.6M | 198 |
| 4 | Marseille | $13.7B | 6.3× | 1 | $281.3M | 274 |
| 5 | Lille | $8.7B | 3.1× | 2 | $154.8M | 232 |
| 6 | Montpellier | $7.7B | 6.7× | 2 | $89.6M | 148 |
| 7 | Bordeaux | $7B | 6.2× | 0 | $60.9M | 271 |
| 8 | Toulouse | $6B | 8.9× | 1 | $347.8M | 173 |
| 9 | Strasbourg | $5.9B | 11.8× | 1 | $70.9M | 93 |
| 10 | Nantes | $5.1B | 4.9× | 1 | $39.8M | 193 |
| 11 | Rennes | $3B | 6.0× | 0 | $63.3M | 103 |
| 12 | Nice | $1.1B | 4.2× | 0 | $34.5M | 82 |
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