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Basque Country

State · Spain · Pop. 2.2M

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316 Pool of Funded Startups

New Startups

111 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures

88 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment

get funded 80%

300Startups

200 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M

68 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

Series A

Series B

Series C

Unicorn

* 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.

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.

$8.8B

$7B

$6.1B

$3.9B

Basque Country

$3.4B

Brandenburg

$2.7B

Saxony-Anhalt

$2.7B

Schleswig-Holstein

$1B

Combined enterprise value of each ecosystem.

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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 · #8 region by EV

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