Introduction

Greater Tel Aviv is Israel’s largest metropolitan area and center of innovation and trade, with a combined enterprise value above $450B and 100+ unicorns. Tel Aviv is an innovation leader on the world stage and was ranked #8 among Dealroom’s 2022 Global Tech Ecosystem Trailblazers.

Discover innovative companies, investors and ecosystem players in Tel Aviv.

Explore real-time data on the Tel Aviv tech ecosystem

The Tel-Aviv tech ecosystem is one of the most capital efficient in the world when looking at VC investment and unicorn development.

Venture Capital

By stage

Below we break venture capital into three distinct stages:

• Startup stage ($0-15M rounds)
• Breakout stage ($15-100M rounds)
• Scaleup ($100M+ rounds).

This provides more consistent and timeless segmentation of the startup & venture capital landscape (more so than self-reported round labeling, which are applied inconsistently, especially between business cycles). After a record $21B in 2021, Tel Aviv VC investment reached $11B in 2022, close to 1.5x above pre-pandemic level. The last quarter, Q2 2024, was the best of the last two years. Discover 7K+ funding rounds in Tel Aviv startups. Early stage Access early-stage funding rounds into Tel Aviv startups here on the platform Breakout stage Access breakout-stage funding rounds into Tel Aviv startups here on the platform Scaleup stage Access late-stage funding rounds into Tel Aviv startups here on the platform.

Position in Israel

Tel Aviv has captured close to 88% of VC activity in Israel since 2018.

By industry and leading segments

Discover Tel Aviv startups by industry. Compared to Global average, Tel Aviv over indexes in Security startup investment, with Security and Fintech as Tel Aviv's top two funded industries. By Industry By Segment

Investors

The following table showcases the most active investors in the Tel Aviv ecosystem. Explore over 1.2K investors based in Tel Aviv.

Unicorns and $1B+ exits

Discover 100+ Tel Aviv unicorns and $1B exits. Discover the top Tel Aviv startups to watch based on the Dealroom signal, surfacing the most promising upcoming funding opportunities in Tel Aviv. To learn more about the Dealroom signal and its latest features, consult our knowledge base.

Global benchmarking

By Unicorns

This scatterplot chart below showcases notable Tel-Aviv's startups against its global counterparts looking at the relationship in company valuation and total VC funding.

By VC investment

Tel Aviv ranks within the top 20 global hubs and top 5 hubs in the EMEA region.

Startup conversion rate

Geographic Scope

For the purpose of this Deep Dive, the Greater Tel Aviv ecosystem (referred to as Tel Aviv) includes: Tel Aviv-Yafo, Bat Yam, Holon, Ramat HaSharon, Ramat Gan, Giv'atayim, Bnei Brak, Herzliya, Or Yehuda, Giv'at Shmuel, Kiryat Ono, Rishon Letzion, Azor, Nes Ziona, Rehovot.

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