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Mexico City

Metro area · Mexico · Pop. 21.8M

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425 Pool of Funded Startups

New Startups

121 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures

53 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment

get funded 44%

344Startups

166 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M

93 Seed Startups$1–4M

Pre-Seed to Seed 30%

85 Series A Startups$4–15M

Seed to Series A 40%

60Breakouts

39 Series B Breakouts$15–40M

A to Series B 45%

21 Series C Breakouts$40–100M

B to Series C 33%

21Scaleups

11 Mega Scaleups$100–250M

reach Mega 2.6%

10 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+

reach Mega+ 2.4%

11Valuation Outcomes

11 Unicorns($1–10B valuation)

reach Unicorn 2.6%

Pre-Seed

166

Seed

Series A

Series B

Series C

Unicorn

* 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 Mexico City

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

Largest rounds in Mexico City - 2026

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

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VC investment

How much venture capital flows into Mexico City

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

Academia

Mexico City's academic flywheel

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

University-linked startup formation

University spinouts

221

Total alumni-founded companies

155

Of which startups (<$15M raised)

Breakouts ($15M-100M)

Scaleups ($100M+)

Location comparison

How Mexico City stacks up

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

São Paulo

$191B

Buenos Aires

$135B

Mexico City

$35.3B

$14B

$13.6B

$10.5B

$4.9B

$4.6B

Combined enterprise value of each ecosystem.

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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 Mexico City dataset — or see a sample on the Dealroom app.

Sector breakdown

Where Mexico City's unicorns concentrate

Fintech

AI / Enterprise SW

Health Tech

Biotech

Cybersecurity

Consumer

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Capital autonomy

Mexico City'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

Mexico City'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 Mexico City'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 Mexico City

Core AI roles

Frontier AI roles

YoY hiring growth

Senior + lead engineers

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Deal flow

Live deal flow & funding rounds in Mexico City

New rounds last 30 days

Stage breakdown

Active investors

Round-size trends

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Country Mexico South America · Pop. 130.9M · #32 startup ecosystem by EV Region South America Continent / region · #18 region by EV

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