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San Antonio

Metro area · United States · Pop. 2.6M

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$11.4B+31%
Combined startup EV
$151M
VC invested (last 12mo)
240
Tracked startups
#99/ 199
Unicorns per 1M people · cities rank
🦄 Unicorns
4
4 live $1B+ companies
💎 Decacorns
0
🐎 Thoroughbreds
2
Top 1% growth · $500M+

Enterprise value · 2015–2025

San Antonio grew 4.7× since 2015

Combined enterprise value of every tracked startup headquartered in San Antonio that's still operating today — public and private companies combined, totalled by founding-year cohort.

0 $5B $10B $15B $20B San Antonio · $11.4B 2015 2018 2021 2024 2025

Adjacent cities by EV

Startup funnel

San Antonio'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
56
Seed
46
Series A
40
Series B
23
Series C
9
Unicorn
4

* 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.

Notable companies

Top private companies in San Antonio

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 4
PathwireBridgeRackspaceTaskUs
Thoroughbreds+ $100M+ revenue 2
RackspaceTaskUs

Academia

San Antonio's academic flywheel

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

University-linked startup formation
3
University spinouts
112
Total alumni-founded companies
72
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
35
Breakouts ($15M-100M)
5
Scaleups ($100M+)

Vs. similarly-sized ecosystems

How San Antonio stacks up

Peers chosen from the same country (United States), sized closest to San Antonio by combined EV. The scatter plots growth × current size — outliers in the upper-right are ecosystems compounding fastest.

Combined enterprise value
$38.7B
$38.4B
$35.8B
$34.2B
$33.2B
$31.3B
$29.9B
$28.8B
San Antonio
$11.4B
EV growth (5-yr ×) vs current EV
peer median 4.0× 1.1× 74.1× 147.0× $5.1B $321B $20.1T EV growth (5yr ×) Combined enterprise value (log) Bay Area Seattle Austin New York City Boston Los Angeles Miami San Diego Washington DC Chicago Dallas Philadelphia Research Triangle Phoenix Atlanta Salt Lake City Denver Minneapolis–Saint Paul Houston San Antonio

Top overview

United States — top cities

Top cities in United States ranked by combined EV. San Antonio's row is highlighted.

# Ecosystem Combined EV 5-yr EV growth Unicorns VC invested Tracked startups
1 Bay Area $20.1T 7.9× 777 $157B 24.3K
2 Seattle $3.1T 10.6× 68 $6.6B 2,935
3 Austin $2T 14.0× 56 $8.1B 2,481
4 New York City $1.7T 5.3× 296 $31.2B 16.4K
5 Boston $1.2T 4.7× 185 $13.6B 6,194
6 Los Angeles $1.2T 5.8× 133 $18.3B 8,432
7 Miami $619B 12.9× 33 $2.9B 2,736
8 San Diego $399B 6.2× 52 $3.3B 2,230
9 Washington DC $317B 4.2× 45 $3.5B 2,318
10 Chicago $256B 3.5× 50 $2.1B 2,924
11 Dallas $195B 3.9× 31 $1.5B 1,866
50 San Antonio $11.4B 3.8× 4 $151M 240

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Sector breakdown
Where San Antonio's unicorns concentrate
Fintech
AI / Enterprise SW
Health Tech
Biotech
Cybersecurity
Consumer
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Capital autonomy
San Antonio'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
San Antonio'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 San Antonio'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 San Antonio
Core AI roles
Frontier AI roles
YoY hiring growth
Senior + lead engineers
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Deal flow
Live deal flow & funding rounds in San Antonio
New rounds last 30 days
Stage breakdown
Active investors
Round-size trends
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