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Nice

Metro area · France · Pop. 973K

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🦄 Unicorns & $1B exits

Ever reached $1B · annual outcomes, zero-filled

🐎 Thoroughbreds

2024→2025 movement · +0 new

Enterprise value

$1.1B

Actual EV series, 2015-2025

Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in Nice

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

Largest rounds in Nice - 2026

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

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Startup funnel

Nice'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

Seed

Series A

Series B

Series C

* Conversion rates are derived from current counts.

VC investment

How much venture capital flows into Nice

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

Academia

Nice's academic flywheel

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

University-linked startup formation

University spinouts

101

Total alumni-founded companies

Of which startups (<$15M raised)

Breakouts ($15M-100M)

Scaleups ($100M+)

Location comparison

How Nice stacks up

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

$8.7B

$8B

$7.9B

$6.5B

$5.9B

$5.1B

$3.1B

Nice

$1.1B

Combined enterprise value of each ecosystem.

Top cities in France ranked by combined EV. Nice's row is highlighted (#12).

#	Ecosystem	Combined EV	EV growth	Unicorns	VC invested	Tracked startups
1	Paris	$287B	5.8×	54	$6.3B	5,174
2	Lyon	$14.3B	4.4×	1	$203.7M	493
3	Marseille	$13.8B	6.3×	1	$297.8M	282
4	Grenoble	$13B	6.0×	2	$217.4M	205
5	Lille	$8.7B	3.1×	2	$156.4M	239
6	Montpellier	$8B	6.8×	2	$89.7M	152
7	Toulouse	$7.9B	4.8×	1	$347.8M	227
8	Bordeaux	$6.5B	5.8×	1	$60.9M	278
9	Strasbourg	$5.9B	8.8×	1	$70.9M	97
10	Nantes	$5.1B	4.9×	1	$42M	196
11	Rennes	$3.1B	6.0×	0	$65.1M	105
12	Nice	$1.1B	4.2×	0	$34.5M	83

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Country France Europe · Pop. 68.5M · #9 startup ecosystem by EV Region Europe Continent / region · #7 region by EV

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