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Türkiye

Asia · Pop. 85.5M · #31 startup ecosystem by EV

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$55.7B+83%
Combined startup EV
$714.3M
VC invested (last 12mo)
2,031
Tracked startups
0.09
Unicorns per 1M people
🦄 Unicorns
8
8 live · +0 new in 2025 (incl. 0 new decacorns)
💎 Decacorns
0
🐎 Thoroughbreds
5
Top 1% growth · $500M+

Adjacent ecosystems by EV

Startup hubs

Inside Türkiye: top 2 startup hubs

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

By enterprise value
1 Istanbul $52.7B
2 Ankara Metropolitan Area $1.9B
By unicorn count
1 Istanbul 8

Startup funnel

Türkiye'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
1,856
Colts ($25M+ revenue) $192.4M deployed
32
1.7% of prior tier
Unicorns ($1B+ valuation)
8
25% of prior tier

Enterprise value · 2015–2025

Türkiye grew 27.1× since 2015

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

0 $15B $30B $45B $60B Türkiye · $54.2B 2015 2018 2021 2024 2025

Vs. similarly-sized ecosystems

How Türkiye stacks up

Peers chosen from the same Asia cluster within ±70% of Türkiye'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
$185.6B
$64.8B
$59.4B
Türkiye
$55.7B
$34.3B
$33.6B
$21.2B
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 Hong Kong United Arab Emirates Indonesia Taiwan Türkiye Vietnam Saudi Arabia

Top overview

Asia ecosystems — combined view

Top ecosystems in Asia ranked by combined EV. Türkiye'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 $883.7B 7.1× 125 $13.9B 13.3K
3 Israel $599.9B 5.6× 128 $10.7B 4,762
4 South Korea $438.6B 15.6× 41 $8.2B 7,931
5 Singapore $359.5B 9.6× 38 $3.3B 3,900
6 Japan $255.3B 6.4× 19 $4.3B 7,794
7 Hong Kong $185.6B 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

Türkiye startup IP portfolio: 1,530 patent families

Granted patent families assigned to startups headquartered in Türkiye. 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
1,530
Filed by tracked startups headquartered in the country.
17.9 patents per million residents · #45 globally
Top patenting hubs
1 Istanbul 1,517
2 Ankara 13

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Sector breakdown
Where Türkiye's unicorns concentrate
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Health Tech
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Cybersecurity
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Founder origins
Where Türkiye's startup founders come from
By country of origin
Per capita
Top universities
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Top employers of AI talent in Türkiye
Core AI roles
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YoY hiring growth
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Stage breakdown
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