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Tel Aviv

Metro area · Israel · Pop. 4.5M · #16 city by EV

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$525B+47%
Combined startup EV
$9.3B
VC invested (last 12mo)
3,600
Tracked startups
#4/ 199
Unicorns per 1M people · cities rank
🦄 Unicorns
115
115 live $1B+ companies
💎 Decacorns
3
$10B+ tier
🐎 Thoroughbreds
90
Top 1% growth · $500M+

Enterprise value · 2015–2025

Tel Aviv grew 12.2× since 2015

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

0 $150B $300B $450B $600B Tel Aviv · $524B 2015 2018 2021 2024 2025

Adjacent cities by EV

Startup funnel

Tel Aviv'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
603
Seed
592
Series A
820
Series B
486
Series C
320
Unicorn
110
Decacorn
5

* 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 Tel Aviv

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 5
CyberArkNovaWizVast DataCheck Point
Unicorns $1B+ valuation 110
WazeWixTaboolaHibobAqua SecurityironSourceNayaxSentinelOneArmisMoon ActiveTransmit SecurityGlobal-eMelioNext InsuranceWalkMeBigPandaAuguryWonderfulImpervaRapyd+90 more
Thoroughbreds+ $100M+ revenue 87
PlaytikaCheck PointMoon ActiveVast DataWixTaboolaCyberArkPagayaMonday.comSolarEdge TechnologiesRapydGlobal-eNovaeToroSentinelOnePayoneerODDITYVaronis SystemsWizEnlight Renewable Energy

Academia

Tel Aviv's academic flywheel

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

University-linked startup formation
159
University spinouts
3,167
Total alumni-founded companies
1,626
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
1,131
Breakouts ($15M-100M)
410
Scaleups ($100M+)
Top universities producing founders tied to Tel Aviv

Vs. similarly-sized ecosystems

How Tel Aviv stacks up

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

Combined enterprise value
$1.7T
$1T
$924B
$608B
Tel Aviv
$525B
$362B
$359B
$286B
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 Seoul Singapore Bengaluru Tokyo Delhi Tel Aviv

Sector concentration

Where Tel Aviv punches above its weight

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

🛡️ Cybersecurity
9.66×
26 unicorns · 28.3% of global sector
🪖 Defence
4.88×
2 unicorns · 14.3% of global sector
3.95×
3 unicorns · 11.5% of global sector
📣 Marketing
3.60×
4 unicorns · 10.5% of global sector
❤️‍🩹 Health Tech & Medtech
2.65×
11 unicorns · 7.7% of global sector
🤖 AI
2.14×
20 unicorns · 6.3% of global sector
1.79×
16 unicorns · 5.2% of global sector
1.51×
7 unicorns · 4.4% of global sector

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