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Israel

Asia · Pop. 10M · #5 startup ecosystem by EV

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$600B+41%
Combined startup EV
$10.7B
VC invested (last 12mo)
4,762
Tracked startups
#1/ 67
Unicorns per 1M people · world rank
🦄 Unicorns
128
128 live · +4 new in 2025 (incl. 1 new decacorns)
💎 Decacorns
4
$10B+ tier
🐎 Thoroughbreds
97
Top 1% growth · $500M+

Enterprise value · 2015–2025

Israel grew 10.1× since 2015

Combined enterprise value of every tracked startup headquartered in Israel that's still operating today — public and private companies combined, totalled by founding-year cohort.

0 $150B $300B $450B $600B Israel · $598B 2015 2018 2021 2024 2025

Adjacent ecosystems by EV

Startup hubs

Inside Israel: top 3 startup hubs

Sub-national ecosystems ranked by combined enterprise value, paired with their 5-year growth multiplier.

By enterprise value
1 Tel Aviv $525B
2 Haifa $24.4B
3 Jerusalem $19.9B
By 5-yr EV growth
1 Tel Aviv 6.9×
2 Haifa 4.6×
3 Jerusalem 1.1×

Startup funnel

Israel'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
828
Seed
813
Series A
1,055
Series B
612
Series C
395
Unicorn
122
Decacorn
6

* 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.

Notable companies

Top private companies in Israel

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 6
Tower SemiconductorNovaVast DataCyberArkCheck PointWiz
Unicorns $1B+ valuation 122
CyeraOptibusStoreDotJFrogNextVisionPapaya GlobalBioCatchValens SemiconductorDrivenetsGongDream SecurityEquashieldWalkMeAxoniusWEKAMazor RoboticsPlacerCheckmarxSemperisStarkWare Industries+102 more
Thoroughbreds+ $100M+ revenue 94
PlaytikaCheck PointVast DataMoon ActiveWixTaboolaMobileyeTower SemiconductorCyberArkPagayaMonday.comSolarEdge TechnologiesRapydGlobal-eNovaeToroSentinelOnePayoneerODDITYPlus500

Academia

Israel's academic flywheel

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

University-linked startup formation
304
University spinouts
5,707
Total alumni-founded companies
2,945
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
1,991
Breakouts ($15M-100M)
771
Scaleups ($100M+)
Top universities producing founders tied to Israel

Vs. similarly-sized ecosystems

How Israel stacks up

Peers chosen from the same Asia cluster within ±70% of Israel's combined EV. The scatter plots growth × current size for the wider continent — outliers in the upper-right are ecosystems compounding fastest.

Combined enterprise value
$884B
Israel
$600B
$439B
$359B
$255B
$186B
EV growth (5-yr ×) vs current EV
peer median 9.0× 3.2× 172.9× 342.6× $12.3B $267B $5.8T EV growth (5yr ×) Combined enterprise value (log) China India Israel South Korea Singapore Japan

Top overview

Asia ecosystems — combined view

Top ecosystems in Asia ranked by combined EV. Israel's row is highlighted.

# Ecosystem Combined EV 5-yr EV growth Unicorns VC invested Tracked startups
1 China $5.8T 3.2× 479 $33.4B 24.5K
2 India $884B 7.1× 125 $13.9B 13.3K
3 Israel $600B 5.6× 128 $10.7B 4,762
4 South Korea $439B 15.6× 41 $8.2B 7,931
5 Singapore $359B 9.6× 38 $3.3B 3,900
6 Japan $255B 6.4× 19 $4.3B 7,794
7 Hong Kong $186B 13.0× 21 $3.6B 1,222
8 United Arab Emirates $79.1B 10.6× 21 $3.9B 1,553
9 Indonesia $64.8B 5.0× 12 $485.3M 1,208
10 Taiwan $59.4B 7.9× 5 $209.1M 621
11 Türkiye $55.7B 20.7× 8 $714.3M 2,031
12 Vietnam $34.3B 15.3× 4 $461.5M 616

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.

Granted patent families
10.8K
Filed by tracked startups headquartered in the country.
1079 patents per million residents · #18 globally
Top patenting hubs
1 Tel Aviv 7,672
2 Haifa 2,795
3 Jerusalem 300

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.

🛡️ Cybersecurity
8.68×
26 unicorns · 28.3% of global sector
🪖 Defence
4.39×
2 unicorns · 14.3% of global sector
3.54×
3 unicorns · 11.5% of global sector
📣 Marketing
3.23×
4 unicorns · 10.5% of global sector
❤️‍🩹 Health Tech & Medtech
2.38×
11 unicorns · 7.7% of global sector
🤖 AI
1.92×
20 unicorns · 6.3% of global sector
1.61×
16 unicorns · 5.2% of global sector
1.36×
7 unicorns · 4.4% of global sector

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