Singapore
Metro area · Asia · Pop. 5.8M · #19 city by EV
Enterprise value · 2015–2025
Singapore grew 20.1× since 2015
Combined enterprise value of every tracked startup headquartered in Singapore that's still operating today — public and private companies combined, totalled by founding-year cohort.
Adjacent cities by EV
Startup funnel
Singapore'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.
* 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 Singapore
Up to 20 names per tier from Dealroom's tracked dataset. Decacorns are valued $10B+, unicorns $1B+, thoroughbreds have crossed $100M in revenue.
Academia
Singapore's academic flywheel
Companies founded by university alumni or spun out of research, plus the institutions producing the most founders tied to Singapore.
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Notable alumni-founded: GoogleNvidiaOpenAIStripe
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Notable alumni-founded: KlarnaWiseMews
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Notable alumni-founded: Wise (TransferWise)ASOSTouchlight
Vs. similarly-sized ecosystems
How Singapore stacks up
Peers chosen from the same continent (Asia), sized closest to Singapore by combined EV. The scatter plots growth × current size — outliers in the upper-right are ecosystems compounding fastest.
Top overview
Asia — top cities
Top cities in Asia ranked by combined EV. Singapore's row is highlighted.
| # | Ecosystem | Combined EV | 5-yr EV growth | Unicorns | VC invested | Tracked startups |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yangtze Delta Region | $1.9T | 2.6× | 190 | $9B | 6,728 |
| 2 | Jingjinji Metropolitan Region | $1.7T | 3.7× | 175 | $6.4B | 4,437 |
| 3 | Beijing | $1.7T | 3.6× | 169 | $6.3B | 4,257 |
| 4 | Shenzhen | $1T | 1.9× | 45 | $2B | 2,115 |
| 5 | Shanghai | $924B | 4.9× | 122 | $3.8B | 3,462 |
| 6 | Hangzhou | $608B | 1.2× | 31 | $1.7B | 1,372 |
| 7 | Tel Aviv | $525B | 6.9× | 115 | $9.3B | 3,600 |
| 8 | Seoul | $362B | 13.8× | 37 | $6.6B | 4,864 |
| 9 | Singapore | $359B | 9.6× | 38 | $3.3B | 3,900 |
| 10 | Bengaluru | $286B | 6.2× | 45 | $5.4B | 3,568 |
| 11 | Tokyo | $220B | 6.1× | 18 | $3.1B | 5,992 |
| 12 | Delhi | $220B | 6.3× | 29 | $2.5B | 2,363 |
Sector concentration
Where Singapore punches above its weight
Sectors in which Singapore's share of the global unicorn pool is bigger than its overall share. A 5× over-index means Singapore is 5× more represented in that sector than in the global average. Source: top-hub aggregation across the 18 simplified sectors.
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