United States
North America · Pop. 340.1M · #1 startup ecosystem by EV
Largest rounds
Largest funding rounds in United States
A live treemap of $100M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Each cell is one round into a United States-headquartered company, grouped by Dealroom sector.
Largest rounds in United States - 2026
Startup hubs
Inside United States: top 12 startup hubs
Sub-national ecosystems ranked by combined enterprise value, paired with their 5-year growth multiplier.
Startup funnel
United States'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.
* 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.
VC investment
How much venture capital flows into United States
VC investment into United States-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage. Live from the Dealroom Next Gen API.
Notable companies
Top private companies in United States
Up to 20 names per tier from Dealroom's tracked dataset. Decacorns are valued $10B+, unicorns $1B+, thoroughbreds have crossed $100M in revenue.
Academia
United States's academic flywheel
Companies founded by university alumni or spun out of research, plus the institutions producing the most founders tied to United States.
| # | University | City | Unicorns | Companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇺🇸Stanford University | Stanford, CA | 478 | 12.2K |
| 2 | 🇺🇸Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | 320 | 8,290 |
| 3 | 🇺🇸MIT | Cambridge, MA | 295 | 8,708 |
| 4 | 🇺🇸UC Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | 190 | 8,176 |
| 5 | 🇺🇸University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | 165 | 3,294 |
| 6 | 🇺🇸Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA | 88 | 2,521 |
| 7 | 🇺🇸Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | 80 | 2,352 |
| 8 | 🇺🇸Yale University | New Haven, CT | 72 | 3,076 |
Location comparison
How United States stacks up
Compare United States with similarly sized ecosystems in North America — switch between combined EV, 5-year EV growth, and a growth × size view. Expand the table for the full ranking.
Combined enterprise value of each ecosystem.
Top ecosystems in North America ranked by combined EV. United States's row is highlighted (#1).
| # | Ecosystem | Combined EV | 5-yr EV growth | Unicorns | VC invested | Tracked startups |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | $30.8T | 6.2× | 2,114 | $283B | 113.4K |
| 2 | China | $5.8T | 3.1× | 491 | $33.8B | 24.7K |
| 3 | United Kingdom | $1.2T | 4.6× | 216 | $24.1B | 20.1K |
| 4 | India | $924B | 7.5× | 127 | $13.9B | 13.3K |
| 5 | Israel | $602B | 5.6× | 131 | $10.9B | 4,775 |
| 6 | Canada | $564B | 9.5× | 86 | $6.7B | 9,518 |
| 7 | South Korea | $430B | 15.4× | 45 | $8.2B | 7,962 |
| 8 | France | $411B | 5.5× | 66 | $8.4B | 9,124 |
| 9 | Germany | $405B | 4.1× | 91 | $8.2B | 8,752 |
| 10 | Netherlands | $324B | 2.8× | 42 | $3.2B | 3,911 |
| 11 | Singapore | $319B | 8.5× | 39 | $4B | 3,928 |
| 12 | Sweden | $286B | 5.5× | 57 | $3.5B | 3,237 |
Patent intelligence
United States startup IP portfolio: 1.4M patent families
Granted patent families assigned to startups headquartered in United States. 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.
Sector concentration
Where United States punches above its weight
Sectors in which United States's share of the global unicorn pool is bigger than its overall share. A 5× over-index means United States is 5× more represented in that sector than in the global average. Source: top-hub aggregation across the 18 simplified sectors.
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What we don't show on this page (yet)
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