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São Paulo

Metro area · Brazil · Pop. 22M · #31 city by EV

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🦄 Unicorns & $1B exits
25
Ever reached $1B · chart: new unicorns per year
🐎 Cumulative thoroughbreds
20
16 currently above $100M revenue
Enterprise value
$190B
Latest combined startup EV

Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in São Paulo

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

Largest rounds in São Paulo - 2026

Every $100M+ VC round into São Paulo-headquartered companies in 2026, grouped by Dealroom sector.
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VC investment

How much venture capital flows into São Paulo

VC investment into São Paulo-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage. Live from the Dealroom Next Gen API.

Location comparison

How São Paulo stacks up

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

São Paulo
$190B
$135B
$35.3B
$14B
$13.6B
$4.6B

Combined enterprise value of each ecosystem.

Sector concentration

Where São Paulo punches above its weight

Sectors in which São Paulo's share of the global unicorn pool is bigger than its overall share. A 5× over-index means São Paulo is 5× more represented in that sector than in the global average. Source: top-hub aggregation across the 18 simplified sectors.

🎓 Edtech
13.9×
3 unicorns · 7.9% of global sector
9.06×
9 unicorns · 5.1% of global sector
💸 Fintech
6.09×
11 unicorns · 3.5% of global sector

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