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Basque Country

State · Spain · Pop. 2.2M

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315 Pool of Funded Startups
New Startups
111 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures
88 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment
get funded 80%
299Startups
200 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M
67 Seed Startups$1–4M
Pre-Seed to Seed 15%
32 Series A Startups$4–15M
Seed to Series A 21%
15Breakouts
7 Series B Breakouts$15–40M
8 Series C Breakouts$40–100M
1Scaleups
1 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+
reach Mega+ 0.32%
1Valuation Outcomes
1 Unicorns($1–10B valuation)
reach Unicorn 0.32%
Pre-Seed
200
Seed
67
Series A
32
Series B
7
Series C
8
Unicorn
1

* 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.

Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in Basque Country

A live treemap of the largest VC rounds. Each cell is one round into Basque Country-headquartered companies, grouped by Dealroom sector.

Largest rounds in Basque Country - 2026

Every $15M+ VC round into Basque Country-headquartered companies in 2026, grouped by Dealroom sector.
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VC investment

How much venture capital flows into Basque Country

VC investment into Basque Country-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage.

Academia

Basque Country's academic flywheel

Companies founded by university alumni or spun out of research, plus the institutions producing the most founders tied to Basque Country.

University-linked startup formation
147
University spinouts
174
Total alumni-founded companies
132
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
29
Breakouts ($15M-100M)
13
Scaleups ($100M+)

Location comparison

How Basque Country stacks up

Compare Basque Country with peers from the same country (Spain) — switch between combined EV, EV growth, and a growth × size view. Expand the table for the full ranking.

Rhineland-Palatinate
$8.8B
Saxony
$7B
Valencia
$5.9B
Lower Saxony
$3.9B
Basque Country
$3.3B
Brandenburg
$2.7B
Saxony-Anhalt
$2.7B
Schleswig-Holstein
$1B

Combined enterprise value of each ecosystem.

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What we don't show on this page (yet)

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Sector breakdown
Where Basque Country's unicorns concentrate
Fintech
AI / Enterprise SW
Health Tech
Biotech
Cybersecurity
Consumer
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Capital autonomy
Basque Country's domestic vs foreign capital mix
% domestic VC by stage
Cross-border lead investors
Sovereign-fund participation
Foreign-LP exposure
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Recent momentum
Basque Country's VC investment trajectory by stage
2024 vs 2025 by stage
Round-size trends
Stage-conversion deltas
Quarterly velocity
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Founder origins
Where Basque Country's startup founders come from
By country of origin
Per capita
Top universities
Top alumni-factory companies
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AI talent
Top employers of AI talent in Basque Country
Core AI roles
Frontier AI roles
YoY hiring growth
Senior + lead engineers
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Deal flow
Live deal flow & funding rounds in Basque Country
New rounds last 30 days
Stage breakdown
Active investors
Round-size trends
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Country Spain Europe · Pop. 48.8M · #22 startup ecosystem by EV Region Europe Continent / region · #7 region by EV

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