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Slovakia

Europe · Pop. 5.4M

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$4.8B+54%
Combined startup EV
$336.3M
VC invested (last 12mo)
200
Tracked startups
🦄 Unicorns
0
0 live · +0 new in 2025 (incl. 0 new decacorns)
💎 Decacorns
0
🐎 Thoroughbreds
1
Top 1% growth · $500M+

Enterprise value · 2015–2025

Slovakia grew 16.4× since 2015

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

0 $1.3B $2.5B $3.8B $5B Slovakia · $4.8B 2015 2018 2021 2024 2025

Adjacent ecosystems by EV

Startup funnel

Slovakia'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
62
Seed
28
Series A
21
Series B
9
Series C
2

* 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 Slovakia

Up to 20 names per tier from Dealroom's tracked dataset. Decacorns are valued $10B+, unicorns $1B+, thoroughbreds have crossed $100M in revenue.

Thoroughbreds+ $100M+ revenue 1
Tennis Point

Academia

Slovakia's academic flywheel

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

University-linked startup formation
7
University spinouts
110
Total alumni-founded companies
81
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
23
Breakouts ($15M-100M)
6
Scaleups ($100M+)

Vs. similarly-sized ecosystems

How Slovakia stacks up

Peers chosen from the same Europe cluster within ±70% of Slovakia'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
$15.3B
$14.5B
$13.9B
$12.9B
$10.8B
$9.7B
$8.7B
$7.7B
Slovakia
$4.8B
EV growth (5-yr ×) vs current EV
peer median 5.5× 2.1× 21.3× 40.5× $4.8B $75B $1.2T EV growth (5yr ×) Combined enterprise value (log) United Kingdom France Germany Netherlands Sweden Switzerland Denmark Belgium Slovakia

Top overview

Europe ecosystems — combined view

Top ecosystems in Europe ranked by combined EV. Slovakia'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 $414B 5.6× 65 $8.4B 9,082
3 Germany $410B 4.0× 86 $8.3B 8,710
4 Netherlands $347B 2.7× 39 $3.2B 3,887
5 Sweden $286B 5.5× 56 $3.5B 3,215
6 Switzerland $214B 3.5× 47 $4.3B 3,003
7 Denmark $141B 4.3× 23 $1.8B 1,659
8 Belgium $106B 7.2× 12 $900.8M 1,871
9 Ireland $106B 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
32 Slovakia $4.8B 8.7× 0 $336.3M 200

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