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Upstate New York

Metro area · United States · Pop. 6.4M

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🦄 New unicorns by year
0
Annual $1B+ outcomes, unsmoothed
🐎 Cumulative thoroughbreds
4
Company revenue history, 2016-2025
Enterprise value
$44.3B
Actual EV series, 2015-2025

Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in Upstate New York

A live treemap of $100M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Each cell is one round into Upstate New York-headquartered companies, grouped by Dealroom sector.

Largest rounds in Upstate New York - 2026

Every $100M+ VC round into Upstate New York-headquartered companies in 2026, grouped by Dealroom sector.
- rounds · - raised
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Startup funnel

Upstate New York'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
337
Seed
242
Series A
153
Series B
60
Series C
42
Unicorn
3

* 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 Upstate New York

VC investment into Upstate New York-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 Upstate New York

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

Unicorns $1B+ valuation 3
Plug PowerACV AuctionsCuria
Thoroughbreds+ $100M+ revenue 4
CuriaACV AuctionsPlug PowerAcorda TherapeuticsSynacor

Academia

Upstate New York's academic flywheel

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

University-linked startup formation
54
University spinouts
3,646
Total alumni-founded companies
2,161
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
1,075
Breakouts ($15M-100M)
410
Scaleups ($100M+)

Location comparison

How Upstate New York stacks up

Compare Upstate New York with peers from the same country (United States) — switch between combined EV, 5-year EV growth, and a growth × size view. Expand the table for the full ranking.

$68.5B
$67.4B
$64.6B
$58.9B
$55.1B
$44.9B
$40.5B
Upstate New York
$22.2B

Combined enterprise value of each ecosystem.

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What we don't show on this page (yet)

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