EMEA
Continent / region · #6 region by EV
* 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 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.
02 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.
03 Outcomes over time
How EMEA compounds: unicorns and enterprise value
Cumulative unicorns & $1B+ exits, 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 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).
05 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
06 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 | 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 |
07 New Palo Alto
The New Palo Alto supercluster
The hubs that make up New Palo Alto — London, Paris, Amsterdam, Cambridge, Oxford and their neighbours, all within a five-hour train ride of London. Bubbles mark the leading research and startup clusters; the dashed line traces the rail loop that ties them into a single ecosystem. Read the New Palo Alto guide.
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