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Manila

Metro area · Philippines · Pop. 13.5M

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🦄 Unicorns & $1B exits

Ever reached $1B · chart: new unicorns per year

🐎 Cumulative thoroughbreds

Chart: companies with tracked revenue history

Enterprise value

$12.3B

Latest combined startup EV

Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in Manila

A live treemap of $100M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Each cell is one round into Manila-headquartered companies, grouped by Dealroom sector.

Largest rounds in Manila - 2026

Every $100M+ VC round into Manila-headquartered companies in 2026, grouped by Dealroom sector.

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VC investment

How much venture capital flows into Manila

VC investment into Manila-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage. Live from the Dealroom Next Gen API.

Location comparison

How Manila stacks up

Compare Manila with peers from the same country (Philippines) — switch between combined EV, 5-year EV growth, and a growth × size view. Expand the table for the full ranking.

$36.8B

$33.5B

$31.6B

$31.3B

$28.3B

$28B

$25.4B

$24.6B

Manila

$12.3B

Combined enterprise value of each ecosystem.

Premium analytics

What we don't show on this page (yet)

Sector breakdowns, founder origins, AI-talent leaderboards and live deal flow are gated to logged-in Dealroom users. Book a demo to access the full Manila dataset — or see a sample on the Dealroom app.

Sector breakdown

Where Manila's unicorns concentrate

Fintech

AI / Enterprise SW

Health Tech

Biotech

Cybersecurity

Consumer

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Capital autonomy

Manila'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

Manila'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 Manila'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 Manila

Core AI roles

Frontier AI roles

YoY hiring growth

Senior + lead engineers

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Deal flow

Live deal flow & funding rounds in Manila

New rounds last 30 days

Stage breakdown

Active investors

Round-size trends

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Country Philippines Asia · Pop. 115.8M Region Asia Continent / region · #4 region by EV

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