South Yorkshire
Metro area · United Kingdom · Pop. 1.4M
Adjacent cities by EV
Startup funnel
South Yorkshire'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 South Yorkshire
Up to 20 names per tier from Dealroom's tracked dataset. Decacorns are valued $10B+, unicorns $1B+, thoroughbreds have crossed $100M in revenue.
Academia
South Yorkshire's academic flywheel
Companies founded by university alumni or spun out of research, plus the institutions producing the most founders tied to South Yorkshire.
Vs. similarly-sized ecosystems
How South Yorkshire stacks up
Peers chosen from the same country (United Kingdom), sized closest to South Yorkshire by combined EV. The scatter plots growth × current size — outliers in the upper-right are ecosystems compounding fastest.
Top overview
United Kingdom — top cities
Top cities in United Kingdom ranked by combined EV. South Yorkshire's row is highlighted.
| # | Ecosystem | Combined EV | 5-yr EV growth | Unicorns | VC invested | Tracked startups |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | London | $726B | 5.7× | 150 | $18.2B | 11.3K |
| 2 | East of England | $205B | 3.4× | 13 | $2.5B | 1,129 |
| 3 | Cambridge (UK) | $179B | 3.6× | 12 | $2.2B | 582 |
| 4 | South East England | $71B | 2.9× | 14 | $1.3B | 1,671 |
| 5 | Yorkshire and the Humber | $45B | 5.9× | 7 | $175.2M | 571 |
| 6 | Edinburgh | $41.6B | 8.3× | 2 | $302.9M | 419 |
| 7 | North West England | $35.2B | 2.6× | 12 | $185.1M | 1,087 |
| 8 | York | $33.5B | 15.7× | 3 | $4.2M | 67 |
| 9 | Midlands | $30.4B | 5.8× | 7 | $400.9M | 897 |
| 10 | Oxford | $29.2B | 2.9× | 8 | $630.7M | 423 |
| 11 | Manchester | $23.3B | 2.4× | 9 | $111.3M | 593 |
| 27 | South Yorkshire | $2.3B | 3.5× | 2 | $77.2M | 167 |
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