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Europe · Pop. 1.4M · #33 startup ecosystem by EV

A public taster of the full Estonia ecosystem on Dealroom — request a demo for live deal flow, founder pedigrees, AI-talent maps, and the full cap table for every company below.

1 Enterprise value

How much Estonia’s VC-backed companies are worth

Combined enterprise value of VC-backed companies headquartered in Estonia, founded since 1990 and still operating, at the end of each year. Companies stay in the total after they list or are acquired.

2 VC investment

How much venture capital flows into Estonia

VC investment into Estonia-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage.

3 Startup funnel

Estonia's startup funnel

Companies headquartered in Estonia at each stage today, by total VC raised. Hover a bar for the split.

577
Startups
$100K–15M raised

293 pre-seed · 188 seed · 96 Series A

47
Breakouts
$15–100M raised

35 Series B · 12 Series C

13
Scaleups
$100M+ raised

8 Mega · 5 Mega+

5
Unicorns and/or $100M+ revenue

4 valued at $1B+ · 3 with $100M+ revenue · 2 both

Source: Dealroom.co

4 Latest quarter

Estonia's latest quarter in venture capital

VC raised by Estonia-headquartered companies in the quarter shown, against the quarter before and the same quarter a year earlier.

Latest complete quarter

 

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5 Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in Estonia

A live treemap of $15M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Each cell is one round into a company headquartered in Estonia, grouped by Dealroom sector.

Largest rounds in Estonia - 2024–2026

Every $15M+ VC round into Estonia-headquartered companies in 2024–2026, grouped by Dealroom sector.
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6 Startup hubs

Inside Estonia: 1 startup hub, 14 universities

Hubs are sized by combined enterprise value; universities by the startup founders they produced. Hover any point for its numbers; the lists rank hubs by EV and universities by founders.

7 Founder origins

Where Estonia's unicorn founders build

17 founders born in Estonia are behind 6 unicorns; 33% 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 Europe, ranked by founders or per 1M inhabitants.

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8 Location comparison

Unicorns, decacorns and centicorns — Estonia in a global comparison

Companies count where they were founded or are headquartered. Values are per 1M people or totals, as a share of the US (US = 100%) or absolute; bars scale to the largest value in each column. Hover any value for the per-1M rate and absolute count.

9 Patent intelligence

Estonia startup IP portfolio: 202 patent families

Granted patent families assigned to startups headquartered in Estonia. 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.

Granted patent families
202
Filed by tracked startups headquartered in the country.
147 patents per million residents · #30 globally
Top patenting hubs
1 Tallinn Metropolitan Area 202

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