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EMEA

Continent / region · #6 region by EV

A public taster of the full EMEA ecosystem on Dealroom — request a demo for live deal flow, founder pedigrees, AI-talent maps, and the full cap table for every company below.

66,978 Pool of Funded Startups

New Startups

25,871 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures

7,739 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment

get funded 30%

57,277Startups

25,536 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M

19,061 Seed Startups$1–4M

Pre-Seed to Seed 23%

12,680 Series A Startups$4–15M

Seed to Series A 25%

7,950Breakouts

5,317 Series B Breakouts$15–40M

A to Series B 31%

2,633 Series C Breakouts$40–100M

B to Series C 34%

1,751Scaleups

1,164 Mega Scaleups$100–250M

reach Mega 1.7%

587 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+

reach Mega+ 0.88%

898Valuation Outcomes

839 Unicorns($1–10B valuation)

reach Unicorn 1.3%

56 Decacorns($10–100B valuation)

reach Decacorn 0.084%

3 Centicorns($100B–1T valuation)

reach Centicorn 0.004%

Pre-Seed

25.5K

Seed

19.1K

Series A

12.7K

Series B

5,317

Series C

2,633

Unicorn

839

Decacorn

* 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.

01 VC investment

How much venture capital flows into EMEA

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

02 Top hubs

Top 20 startup hubs in EMEA

EMEA’s leading ecosystems — switch between metro areas (HQ regions) and countries, and rank by VC funding, newly minted unicorns, all-time unicorn and thoroughbred counts, combined enterprise value or EV growth. VC funding, new unicorns and EV growth all follow the period slider (EV growth re-windows an annual 2015–2025 EV series) plus the round-size bands.

03 Outcomes over time

How EMEA compounds: unicorns and enterprise value

Cumulative unicorns & $1B+ exits, decacorns ($10B+), or combined ecosystem enterprise value — all VC-backed companies founded since 1990, the same lens as the hubs ranking — stacked by country or metro since 2015.

04 Share of the world

How much of the world is EMEA

Unicorns and decacorns minted in the last ten years, companies at $100M+ revenue, and VC raised in startup, breakout and scaleup rounds — each as a share of the global total. The by-year view shows the same shares per calendar year.

05 EV constellation

EMEA’s unicorns & thoroughbreds, sized by value

One bubble per company — area is current enterprise value, grouped by country or metro (HQ region). Counts unicorns & thoroughbreds only; ARM, Booking.com, Spotify and Revolut anchor the map. Toggle “+ everything else” to roll each cluster’s remaining VC-backed startups into the totals (ecosystem-EV lens).

06 Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in EMEA

A live treemap of the largest VC rounds. Each cell is one round into EMEA-headquartered companies, filterable by round size and grouped by Dealroom sector.

Largest rounds in EMEA - 2026

Every $100M+ VC round into EMEA-headquartered companies in 2026, grouped by Dealroom sector.

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07 Academia

EMEA’s academic flywheel

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

University ranking By alumni-founded unicorns & companies

#	University	City	Unicorns	Companies
1	🇬🇧University of Cambridge	Cambridge	140	5,716
2	🇮🇱Tel Aviv University	Tel Aviv	130	3,682
3	🇮🇱Technion – Israel Institute of Technology	Haifa	120	2,204
4	🇫🇷INSEAD	Fontainebleau	95	5,317
5	🇬🇧University of Oxford	Oxford	95	4,873
6	🇬🇧Imperial College London	London	76	3,472
7	🇮🇱Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Jerusalem	60	1,740
8	🇫🇷École Polytechnique	Palaiseau	60	1,467
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#	University	City	Based here	Companies
1	🇬🇧University of Cambridge	Cambridge	92	5,716
2	🇬🇧University of Oxford	Oxford	66	4,873
3	🇬🇧Imperial College London	London	50	3,472
4	🇫🇷École Polytechnique	Palaiseau	46	1,467
5	🇫🇷INSEAD	Fontainebleau	38	5,317
6	🇺🇸Stanford University	Stanford, CA	14	12.2K
7	🇺🇸Harvard University	Cambridge, MA	14	8,290
8	🇺🇸MIT	Cambridge, MA	8	8,708
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#	University	City	Unicorns	Companies
1	🇫🇷INSEAD	Fontainebleau	95	5,317
2	🇫🇷École Polytechnique	Palaiseau	60	1,467
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#	University	City	Based here	Companies
1	🇬🇧University of Cambridge	Cambridge	60	5,716
2	🇬🇧Imperial College London	London	50	3,472
3	🇬🇧University of Oxford	Oxford	38	4,873
4	🇫🇷INSEAD	Fontainebleau	22	5,317
5	🇺🇸Stanford University	Stanford, CA	14	12.2K
6	🇺🇸Harvard University	Cambridge, MA	14	8,290
7	🇺🇸MIT	Cambridge, MA	8	8,708
8	🇫🇷École Polytechnique	Palaiseau	6	1,467
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#	University	City	Based here	Companies
1	🇫🇷École Polytechnique	Palaiseau	40	1,467
2	🇫🇷INSEAD	Fontainebleau	16	5,317
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#	University	City	Based here	Companies
1	🇬🇧University of Cambridge	Cambridge	32	5,716
2	🇬🇧University of Oxford	Oxford	28	4,873
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08 Super clusters

Europe’s Deep Tech sits in five zones

Forty countries, five zones. New Palo Alto — Glasgow and Edinburgh down through Oxford, Cambridge and London to Paris, Amsterdam and Aachen — holds 31% of Europe's 9,000+ VC-backed Deep Tech startups. DACH holds 19%, with the Alpine cluster overlapping it at 13%; the Nordics 12%, Central and Eastern Europe 7%, and the Porto–Lisbon–Madrid–Barcelona corridor 5%. Each zone is drawn around its own hubs, so every count is what its shape contains. Click New Palo Alto to zoom into its hubs. Read the New Palo Alto guide.