Miami

Funding into Miami startups has grown nearly tenfold over the past five years, reaching $2.5B in 2025. With $1.4B raised in the first 6 months of 2026, the full year is on track to land at $2.9B, a +14% change versus 2025. The chart below shows annual funding totals; the latest year is annualised from observed-to-date data and represents the renderer's projection, not a closed quarter.

Yearly totals mask the quarter-by-quarter rhythm. The chart below shows Miami startups funding raised in each of the last 21 complete quarters through Q2 2026. All bars are actual closed-quarter sums, no projections, no in-progress quarters.

How capital deployed into Miami startups is split across round sizes. In the trailing four quarters, 53% of capital landed in scaleup ($100M+) rounds, 36% in breakout ($15–100M), and 11% across startups (under $15M). Each panel below stacks the canonical sub-bands across Q2 2022 → Q2 2026.

Two views of leadership in Miami startups: the most-funded companies all-time on the left, and the hottest companies right now by Dealroom Signal on the right. Total-funding figures include all capital sources tracked by Dealroom (VC plus grants, project finance, and other instruments). Signal is Dealroom's live growth ranking, these are the firms with the strongest recent momentum across team, timing, growth, and completeness.

Over the last 12 months (through Jul 2026), the largest VC rounds in Miami startups reveal where capital is consolidating. The table below lists the 15 biggest disclosed rounds by amount, with date, company, round type, and lead investors. Funding events without a public amount are excluded; acquisitions sit in the Unicorns & Exits section.

Miami startups have minted 39 unicorns to date. Dealroom defines a unicorn as a company that has reached a $1B+ valuation or exit (verified and manually reviewed; other lists use different criteria, this is ours). Of those, 6 are decacorns, companies at a $10B+ valuation. The ecosystem also counts 29 thoroughbreds: companies generating $100M+ in revenue (a separate lens from unicorns, with some overlap). The chart below shows the cumulative count climbing each year, with the line tracking new unicorns minted in that year, peaking at 9 in 2021. On exits, the sector has produced 275 tracked acquisitions since 2010 representing $35.8B in disclosed value. Notable acquisitions in the data include Ultimate Software ($11.0B, 2019), followed by Chewy ($3.4B, 2017), Cyxtera Technologies ($2.8B, 2017).

Entrepreneurship is a power law. Of every Miami startup founded, only a fraction attract venture capital, and far fewer climb each successive funding level. This funnel traces VC-backed Miami startups from first cheque through to the rarest valuation outcomes. Mouth figures are annual means (2010–2024); pool stages count VC-backed companies founded since 1990 by total funding.