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Melbourne

Metro area · Australia · Pop. 4.9M

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982 Pool of Funded Startups
New Startups
403 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures
123 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment
get funded 30%
840Startups
351 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M
282 Seed Startups$1–4M
Pre-Seed to Seed 18%
207 Series A Startups$4–15M
Seed to Series A 27%
128Breakouts
105 Series B Breakouts$15–40M
A to Series B 26%
23 Series C Breakouts$40–100M
B to Series C 30%
14Scaleups
7 Mega Scaleups$100–250M
reach Mega 0.71%
7 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+
reach Mega+ 0.71%
20Valuation Outcomes
17 Unicorns($1–10B valuation)
reach Unicorn 1.7%
3 Decacorns($10–100B valuation)
reach Decacorn 0.31%
Pre-Seed
351
Seed
282
Series A
207
Series B
105
Series C
23
Unicorn
17
Decacorn
3

* 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.

Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in Melbourne

A live treemap of the largest VC rounds. Each cell is one round into Melbourne-headquartered companies, grouped by Dealroom sector.

Largest rounds in Melbourne - 2026

Every $15M+ VC round into Melbourne-headquartered companies in 2026, grouped by Dealroom sector.
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VC investment

How much venture capital flows into Melbourne

VC investment into Melbourne-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage.

Academia

Melbourne's academic flywheel

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

University-linked startup formation
352
University spinouts
1,305
Total alumni-founded companies
941
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
297
Breakouts ($15M-100M)
67
Scaleups ($100M+)

Location comparison

How Melbourne stacks up

Compare Melbourne with peers from the same country (Australia) — switch between combined EV, EV growth, and a growth × size view. Expand the table for the full ranking.

Sydney
$179B
Melbourne
$63.5B
Brisbane
$11.5B
Perth
$5.1B
Adelaide
$3.1B

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 Melbourne dataset — or see a sample on the Dealroom app.

Sector breakdown
Where Melbourne's unicorns concentrate
Fintech
AI / Enterprise SW
Health Tech
Biotech
Cybersecurity
Consumer
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Capital autonomy
Melbourne'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
Melbourne'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 Melbourne'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 Melbourne
Core AI roles
Frontier AI roles
YoY hiring growth
Senior + lead engineers
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Deal flow
Live deal flow & funding rounds in Melbourne
New rounds last 30 days
Stage breakdown
Active investors
Round-size trends
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Country Australia Oceania · Pop. 27.2M · #13 startup ecosystem by EV Region Oceania Continent / region · #21 region by EV

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