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Madagascar

Africa · Pop. 32M

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$30.6M
Combined startup EV
$532.3K
VC invested (last 12mo)
8
Tracked startups
🦄 Unicorns
0
0 live · +0 new in 2025 (incl. 0 new decacorns)
💎 Decacorns
0
🐎 Thoroughbreds
0
Top 1% growth · $500M+

Enterprise value · 2022–2025

Madagascar grew 7.7× since 2022

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

0 $10M $20M $30M $40M Madagascar · $30.6M 2022 2023 2024 2025

Adjacent ecosystems by EV

Academia

Madagascar's academic flywheel

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

University-linked startup formation
1
University spinouts
3
Total alumni-founded companies
2
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
1
Breakouts ($15M-100M)

Vs. similarly-sized ecosystems

How Madagascar stacks up

Peers chosen from the same Africa cluster within ±70% of Madagascar'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
$90.2M
$70M
$68.4M
$59.4M
$59.1M
$57.8M
$44.8M
$42M
Madagascar
$30.6M
EV growth (5-yr ×) vs current EV

Top overview

Africa ecosystems — combined view

Top ecosystems in Africa ranked by combined EV. Madagascar's row is highlighted.

# Ecosystem Combined EV 5-yr EV growth Unicorns VC invested Tracked startups
1 South Africa $18.8B 8.2× 2 $406.5M 969
2 Nigeria $18.2B 12.5× 6 $227.5M 919
3 Egypt $12.3B 9.6× 4 $416.9M 834
4 Kenya $8.9B 10.2× 0 $269.6M 520
5 Seychelles $3.1B 1 $15.8M 46
6 Senegal $2B 98.9× 1 $13.5M 52
7 Mauritius $1.9B 29.4× 0 $19.5M 42
8 Ghana $1.6B 5.3× 0 $146.9M 193
9 Tunisia $1.1B 37.2× 0 $5.1M 110
10 Rwanda $705M 5.8× 0 $13.2M 57
11 Morocco $653.2M 8.4× 0 $20.2M 146
33 Madagascar $30.6M 0 $532.3K 8

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