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Lithuania

Europe · Pop. 2.9M · #46 startup ecosystem by EV

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$15.3B+80%
Combined startup EV
$242.2M
VC invested (last 12mo)
511
Tracked startups
1.7
Unicorns per 1M people
🦄 Unicorns
5
5 live · +1 new in 2025 (incl. 0 new decacorns)
💎 Decacorns
0
🐎 Thoroughbreds
2
Top 1% growth · $500M+

Adjacent ecosystems by EV

Startup hubs

Inside Lithuania: top 1 startup hubs

Sub-national ecosystems ranked by combined enterprise value of all tracked startups headquartered there.

By enterprise value
1 Vilnius $14.9B
By unicorn count
1 Vilnius 4

Startup funnel

Lithuania'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.

VC-backed startups
513
Colts ($25M+ revenue) $51.6M deployed
11
2.1% of prior tier
Unicorns ($1B+ valuation) $108M deployed
5
45% of prior tier

Enterprise value · 2015–2025

Lithuania grew 21.0× since 2015

Combined enterprise value of every tracked startup headquartered in Lithuania that's still operating today, totalled by founding-year cohort.

0 $5B $10B $15B $20B Lithuania · $15.3B 2015 2018 2021 2024 2025

Vs. similarly-sized ecosystems

How Lithuania stacks up

Peers chosen from the same Europe cluster within ±70% of Lithuania'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
$45.9B
$35.9B
$31.2B
$29.7B
$21B
$18.1B
Lithuania
$15.3B
$14.5B
EV growth (5-yr ×) vs current EV
peer median 5.4× 2.1× 21.3× 40.5× $10.8B $113B $1.2T EV growth (5yr ×) Combined enterprise value (log) United Kingdom France Germany Netherlands Sweden Switzerland Denmark Belgium Ireland Spain Finland Russia Italy Norway Estonia Portugal Ukraine Austria Lithuania

Top overview

Europe ecosystems — combined view

Top ecosystems in Europe ranked by combined EV. Lithuania's row is highlighted.

# Ecosystem Combined EV 5-yr EV growth Unicorns VC invested Tracked startups
1 United Kingdom $1.2T 4.6× 211 $24.1B 20K
2 France $414.1B 5.6× 65 $8.4B 9,082
3 Germany $410.2B 4.0× 86 $8.3B 8,710
4 Netherlands $346.9B 2.7× 39 $3.2B 3,887
5 Sweden $286.4B 5.5× 56 $3.5B 3,215
6 Switzerland $214.1B 3.5× 47 $4.3B 3,003
7 Denmark $141.3B 4.3× 23 $1.8B 1,659
8 Belgium $106.3B 7.2× 12 $900.8M 1,871
9 Ireland $105.9B 4.9× 24 $1.2B 1,959
10 Spain $98.4B 5.4× 17 $3.4B 4,529
11 Finland $78.9B 3.9× 10 $2.2B 1,726
21 Lithuania $15.3B 18.6× 5 $242.2M 511

Patent intelligence

Lithuania startup IP portfolio: 454 patent families

Granted patent families assigned to startups headquartered in Lithuania. 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
454
Filed by tracked startups headquartered in the country.
157 patents per million residents · #29 globally
Top patenting hubs
1 Vilnius 454

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