Afghanistan
Asia · Pop. 42.6M
1 Overview
2 Largest rounds
Largest funding rounds in Afghanistan
A live treemap of $15M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Each cell is one round into a company headquartered in Afghanistan, grouped by Dealroom sector.
Largest rounds in Afghanistan - 2024–2026
3 VC investment
How much venture capital flows into Afghanistan
VC investment into Afghanistan-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage.
4 Founder origins
Where Afghanistan's unicorn founders build
1 founders born in Afghanistan are behind 1 unicorns; 100% of those were built in the US. Origins are resolved from biography and education history, not current address. Compare with the other origin countries in Asia, ranked by founders or per 1M inhabitants.
5 Location comparison
How Afghanistan stacks up
Compare Afghanistan with similarly sized ecosystems in Asia — 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.
Top ecosystems in Asia ranked by combined EV. Afghanistan's row is highlighted (#12).
| # | Ecosystem | Combined EV | EV growth | Unicorns | VC invested | Tracked startups |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | $5.8T | 3.1× | 521 | $34.5B | 25.1K |
| 2 | India | $925B | 7.5× | 131 | $14.1B | 13.7K |
| 3 | Israel | $578B | 5.4× | 133 | $10.6B | 4,860 |
| 4 | South Korea | $433B | 15.4× | 48 | $8.3B | 8,131 |
| 5 | Singapore | $322B | 8.5× | 40 | $4B | 4,063 |
| 6 | Japan | $229B | 5.8× | 21 | $7B | 7,960 |
| 7 | Hong Kong | $178B | 12.4× | 21 | $3.1B | 1,280 |
| 8 | United Arab Emirates | $79.1B | 10.5× | 24 | $3.9B | 1,617 |
| 9 | Indonesia | $64.9B | 5.0× | 12 | $485.4M | 1,221 |
| 10 | Taiwan | $61.9B | 7.6× | 12 | $209.1M | 653 |
| 11 | Türkiye | $52.7B | 16.0× | 10 | $716.6M | 2,072 |
| 42 | Afghanistan | $1.2M | — | 0 | $0 | 7 |
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