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Funding into Qatari startups has grown nearly tenfold over the past five years, reaching $30M in 2025. With $17M raised in the first 9 months of 2026, the full year is on track to land at $22M, a -26% 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 Qatari startups funding raised in each of the last 21 complete quarters through Q3 2026. All bars are actual closed-quarter sums, no projections, no in-progress quarters.

The investors headquartered in Qatar, ranked by the number of funding rounds they have backed. In a smaller ecosystem the local base leans on development banks, sovereign funds, accelerators and angel networks as much as classic VC.

Two views of leadership in Qatari 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.

In 2026 Q1-3 (year to date), the largest VC rounds in Qatari startups reveal where capital is consolidating. The table below lists the 10 biggest rounds by amount, with date, company, round type, and lead investors; rounds without a public amount sit at the bottom with the amount left blank. Exits sit in the Unicorns & Exits section.

Which industries pull in the most venture capital across Qatari startups, and where does the Qatari punch above its weight versus the rest of the world? Use the toggle to switch between absolute VC funding and each industry's over/under-index, and to change the time window. In 2026 Q1-3 (year to date), Fintech leads at $15M, and the Qatari over-indexes only in Fintech (88% of Qatari venture capital versus 5% across the rest of the world, 16.93×), and under-indexes most in AI, Transportation relative to the rest of the world. Industries are tracked through Dealroom's industry tags, which overlap, a company spanning, say, AI and fintech is counted in both, so these show where capital concentrates, not a mutually exclusive split of the total.

Qatari startups have yet to mint a verified unicorn (a company reaching a $1B+ valuation or exit). On exits, the ecosystem has produced 5 tracked exits since 2019 representing $300M in disclosed value. The largest tracked exits include Snoonu ($300M, 2025).

Entrepreneurship is a power law. Of every Qatari startup founded, only a fraction attract venture capital, and far fewer climb each successive funding level. This funnel traces VC-backed Qatari 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.