Israel
Asia · Pop. 10M · #5 startup ecosystem by EV
1 Overview
* 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.
2 Latest quarter
Israel's latest quarter in venture capital
VC raised by Israel-headquartered companies in the quarter shown, against the quarter before and the same quarter a year earlier.
Latest complete quarter
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3 Largest rounds
Largest funding rounds in Israel
A live treemap of $100M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Each cell is one round into a company headquartered in Israel, grouped by Dealroom sector.
Largest rounds in Israel - 2024–2026
4 Startup hubs
Inside Israel: 3 startup hubs, 60 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.
5 VC investment
How much venture capital flows into Israel
VC investment into Israel-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage.
6 Founder origins
Where Israel's unicorn founders build
420 founders born in Israel are behind 181 unicorns; 70% 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.
7 Location comparison
Unicorns, decacorns and centicorns — Israel 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.
8 Patent intelligence
Israel startup IP portfolio: 10.8K patent families
Granted patent families assigned to startups headquartered in Israel. 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.
9 Sector concentration
Where Israel punches above its weight
Sectors in which Israel's share of the global unicorn pool is bigger than its overall share. A 5× over-index means Israel is 5× more represented in that sector than in the global average. Source: top-hub aggregation across the 18 simplified sectors.
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