Tel Aviv
Metro area · Israel · Pop. 4.5M · #16 city by EV
Largest rounds
Largest funding rounds in Tel Aviv
A live treemap of $100M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Each cell is one round into Tel Aviv-headquartered companies, grouped by Dealroom sector.
Largest rounds in Tel Aviv - 2026
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.
* 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.
VC investment
How much venture capital flows into Tel Aviv
VC investment into Tel Aviv-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage. Live from the Dealroom Next Gen API.
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.
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 | City | Based here | Companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇮🇱Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv | 80 | 3,682 |
| 2 | 🇮🇱Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | Haifa | 70 | 2,204 |
| 3 | 🇮🇱Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem | 32 | 1,740 |
| 4 | 🇺🇸Stanford University | Stanford, CA | 6 | 12.2K |
Location comparison
How Tel Aviv stacks up
Compare Tel Aviv with peers from the same country (Israel) — switch between combined EV, 5-year EV growth, and a growth × size view. Expand the table for the full ranking.
Combined enterprise value of each ecosystem.
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.
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