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Madrid

Metro area · Spain · Pop. 6.7M

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$37.9B+43%
Combined startup EV
$1.3B
VC invested (last 12mo)
1,391
Tracked startups
#111/ 199
Unicorns per 1M people · cities rank
🦄 Unicorns
9
9 live $1B+ companies
💎 Decacorns
0
🐎 Thoroughbreds
14
Top 1% growth · $500M+

Enterprise value · 2015–2025

Madrid grew 12.1× since 2015

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

0 $12.5B $25B $37.5B $50B Madrid · $44.4B 2015 2018 2021 2024 2025

Adjacent cities by EV

Startup funnel

Madrid'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
453
Seed
316
Series A
161
Series B
70
Series C
29
Unicorn
9

* 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 Madrid

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 9
MASMOVIL GroupCabifyDevoCopadoAllfundsFeverJazztelJob&TalentIdealista
Thoroughbreds+ $100M+ revenue 14
MASMOVIL GroupAllfundsMaking ScienceClikaliaCodere OnlineAtrys HealthCopadoJob&TalentCabifyClicarsIdealistaSeedtagFeverTiko

Academia

Madrid's academic flywheel

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

University-linked startup formation
351
University spinouts
2,127
Total alumni-founded companies
1,595
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
427
Breakouts ($15M-100M)
105
Scaleups ($100M+)

Vs. similarly-sized ecosystems

How Madrid stacks up

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

Combined enterprise value
$40.4B
Madrid
$37.9B
$1.7B
$1B
$600.2M
$206.2M
EV growth (5-yr ×) vs current EV

Top overview

Spain — top cities

Top cities in Spain ranked by combined EV. Madrid's row is highlighted.

# Ecosystem Combined EV 5-yr EV growth Unicorns VC invested Tracked startups
1 Barcelona $40.4B 4.9× 6 $1.2B 1,518
2 Madrid $37.9B 6.1× 9 $1.3B 1,391
3 Bilbao $1.7B 3.9× 0 $76M 124
4 Seville $1B 7.6× 0 $352K 62
5 Málaga $600.2M 4.2× 0 $9.5M 72
6 Tarragona $206.2M 10.4× 0 $7.9M 19

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