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Mexico City

Metro area · Mexico · Pop. 21.8M

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🦄 New unicorns by year
1
Annual $1B+ outcomes, unsmoothed
🐎 Cumulative thoroughbreds
4
Company revenue history, 2016-2025
Enterprise value
$34.2B
Actual EV series, 2015-2025

Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in Mexico City

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

Largest rounds in Mexico City - 2026

Every $100M+ VC round into Mexico City-headquartered companies in 2026, grouped by Dealroom sector.
- rounds · - raised
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Startup funnel

Mexico City'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
165
Seed
91
Series A
84
Series B
38
Series C
20
Unicorn
11

* 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.

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. Live from the Dealroom Next Gen API.

Notable companies

Top private companies in Mexico City

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 11
KonfioKavakKapital SmartBankCornershopStoriBitsoClaraMeramaIncode TechnologiesGrupo AxoClip
Thoroughbreds+ $100M+ revenue 4
Incode TechnologiesKavakGrupo AxoMerama

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
4
University spinouts
212
Total alumni-founded companies
150
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
49
Breakouts ($15M-100M)
13
Scaleups ($100M+)

Location comparison

How Mexico City stacks up

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

$191B
$133B
Mexico City
$35.2B
$14B
$13.6B
$4.6B

Combined enterprise value of each ecosystem.

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

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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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