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Wellington (NZ)

Metro area · New Zealand · Pop. 500K

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🦄 New unicorns by year
0
Annual $1B+ outcomes, unsmoothed
🐎 Cumulative thoroughbreds
2
Company revenue history, 2016-2025
Enterprise value
$21.4B
Actual EV series, 2015-2025

Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in Wellington (NZ)

A live treemap of $100M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Each cell is one round into Wellington (NZ)-headquartered companies, grouped by Dealroom sector.

Largest rounds in Wellington (NZ) - 2026

Every $100M+ VC round into Wellington (NZ)-headquartered companies in 2026, grouped by Dealroom sector.
- rounds · - raised
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Startup funnel

Wellington (NZ)'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
29
Seed
18
Series A
15
Series B
8
Series C
2
Unicorn
1
Decacorn
1

* Conversion rates are derived from current counts.

VC investment

How much venture capital flows into Wellington (NZ)

VC investment into Wellington (NZ)-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 Wellington (NZ)

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
FNZ
Unicorns $1B+ valuation 1
Xero
Thoroughbreds+ $100M+ revenue 2
FNZXero

Academia

Wellington (NZ)'s academic flywheel

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

University-linked startup formation
6
University spinouts
94
Total alumni-founded companies
65
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
25
Breakouts ($15M-100M)
4
Scaleups ($100M+)

Location comparison

How Wellington (NZ) stacks up

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

Melbourne
$50.6B
Auckland
$47B
Wellington (NZ)
$21.4B
Brisbane
$12.5B
Perth
$5.1B
Adelaide
$3.1B

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