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Taipei

Metro area · Taiwan · Pop. 7M

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$49B+51%
Combined startup EV
$172.1M
VC invested (last 12mo)
401
Tracked startups
#157/ 199
Unicorns per 1M people · cities rank
🦄 Unicorns
5
5 live $1B+ companies
💎 Decacorns
1
$10B+ tier
🐎 Thoroughbreds
5
Top 1% growth · $500M+

Enterprise value · 2015–2025

Taipei grew 20.3× since 2015

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

0 $17.5B $35B $52.5B $70B Taipei · $65.4B 2015 2018 2021 2024 2025

Adjacent cities by EV

Startup funnel

Taipei'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
60
Seed
64
Series A
66
Series B
34
Series C
14
Unicorn
4
Decacorn
1

* 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 Taipei

Up to 20 names per tier from Dealroom's tracked dataset. Decacorns are valued $10B+, unicorns $1B+, thoroughbreds have crossed $100M in revenue.

Decacorns $10B+ valuation 1
Wiwynn
Unicorns $1B+ valuation 4
AppierPerfect CorpProLogium TechnologyGogoro
Thoroughbreds+ $100M+ revenue 5
WiwynnAlchip TechnologiesAppierGogoroEgis Technology

Academia

Taipei's academic flywheel

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

University-linked startup formation
19
University spinouts
277
Total alumni-founded companies
178
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
81
Breakouts ($15M-100M)
18
Scaleups ($100M+)

Vs. similarly-sized ecosystems

How Taipei stacks up

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

Combined enterprise value
$167B
$126B
$65.4B
$59.4B
$52.7B
Taipei
$49B
$36.8B
$32.2B
$28.3B
EV growth (5-yr ×) vs current EV
peer median 7.8× 1.1× 369.0× 737.0× $5.5B $102B $1.9T EV growth (5yr ×) Combined enterprise value (log) Yangtze Delta Region Jingjinji Metropolitan Region Beijing Shenzhen Shanghai Hangzhou Tel Aviv Seoul Singapore Bengaluru Tokyo Delhi Taipei

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