Australia
Oceania · Pop. 27.2M · #12 startup ecosystem by EV
Adjacent ecosystems by EV
Startup hubs
Inside Australia: top 11 startup hubs
Sub-national ecosystems ranked by combined enterprise value of all tracked startups headquartered there.
Startup funnel
Australia's power-law funnel
From every VC-backed startup down to the biggest scale-ups. Conversion rates show what fraction of one tier graduate into the next. Capital figures (where shown) are total VC deployed at that stage.
Enterprise value · 2015–2025
Australia grew 21.0× since 2015
Combined enterprise value of every tracked startup headquartered in Australia that's still operating today, totalled by founding-year cohort.
Vs. similarly-sized ecosystems
How Australia stacks up
Peers chosen from the same Oceania cluster within ±70% of Australia's combined EV. The scatter plots growth × current size for the wider continent — outliers in the upper-right are ecosystems compounding fastest.
Top overview
Oceania ecosystems — combined view
Top ecosystems in Oceania ranked by combined EV. Australia's row is highlighted.
| # | Ecosystem | Combined EV | 5-yr EV growth | Unicorns | VC invested | Tracked startups |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australia | $294.5B | 9.3× | 44 | $3.8B | 4,984 |
| 2 | New Zealand | $73.7B | 21.8× | 8 | $1.6B | 641 |
| 3 | Marshall Islands | $221.3M | — | 0 | $0 | 12 |
| 4 | Samoa | $186M | — | 0 | $0 | 2 |
| 5 | Federated States of Micronesia | $40.5M | — | 0 | $0 | 9 |
| 6 | Papua New Guinea | $29.4M | — | 0 | $5M | 1 |
| 7 | Fiji | $6.3M | — | 0 | $0 | 3 |
| 8 | Tuvalu | $1.8M | — | 0 | $0 | 3 |
Patent intelligence
Australia startup IP portfolio: 7,391 patent families
Granted patent families assigned to startups headquartered in Australia. Aggregated across the country's hub-level filings — Bay Area, Boston, etc. roll up under the United States row, the same way Tokyo and Osaka roll up under Japan.
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