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Singapore

Asia · Pop. 5.8M · #11 startup ecosystem by EV

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1 Overview

2,708 Pool of Funded Startups

New Startups

835 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures

325 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment

get funded 39%

2,230Startups

840 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M

771 Seed Startups$1–4M

Pre-Seed to Seed 23%

619 Series A Startups$4–15M

Seed to Series A 27%

371Breakouts

249 Series B Breakouts$15–40M

A to Series B 30%

122 Series C Breakouts$40–100M

B to Series C 32%

107Scaleups

64 Mega Scaleups$100–250M

reach Mega 2.4%

43 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+

reach Mega+ 1.6%

43Valuation Outcomes

38 Unicorns($1–10B valuation)

reach Unicorn 1.4%

5 Decacorns($10–100B valuation)

reach Decacorn 0.18%

Pre-Seed

840

Seed

771

Series A

619

Series B

249

Series C

122

Unicorn

Decacorn

* 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

Singapore's latest quarter in venture capital

VC raised by Singapore-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 Singapore

A live treemap of $40M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Each cell is one round into a company headquartered in Singapore, grouped by Dealroom sector.

Largest rounds in Singapore - 2024–2026

Every $40M+ VC round into Singapore-headquartered companies in 2024–2026, grouped by Dealroom sector.

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4 VC investment

How much venture capital flows into Singapore

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

5 Founder origins

Where Singapore's unicorn founders build

18 founders born in Singapore are behind 14 unicorns; 50% 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.

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6 Location comparison

Unicorns, decacorns and centicorns — Singapore 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.

7 Patent intelligence

Singapore startup IP portfolio: 7,630 patent families

Granted patent families assigned to startups headquartered in Singapore. 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

7,630

Filed by tracked startups headquartered in the country.

1316 patents per million residents · #16 globally

8 Sector concentration

Where Singapore punches above its weight

Sectors in which Singapore's share of the global unicorn pool is bigger than its overall share. A 5× over-index means Singapore is 5× more represented in that sector than in the global average. Source: top-hub aggregation across the 18 simplified sectors.

🥗 Food

5.52×

3 unicorns · 5.4% of global sector

🛒 eCommerce & Marketplaces

4.71×

8 unicorns · 4.6% of global sector

💸 Fintech

4.53×

14 unicorns · 4.4% of global sector

🎮 Consumer Services

2.81×

6 unicorns · 2.7% of global sector

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