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Hyogo Prefecture

State · Japan · Pop. 5.4M

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🦄 Unicorns & $1B exits

Ever reached $1B · annual outcomes, zero-filled

🐎 Thoroughbreds

2024→2025 movement · +0 new

Enterprise value

$10.4B

Actual EV series, 2015-2025

Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in Hyogo Prefecture

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

Largest rounds in Hyogo Prefecture - 2026

Every $15M+ VC round into Hyogo Prefecture-headquartered companies in 2026, grouped by Dealroom sector.

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Startup funnel

Hyogo Prefecture's power-law funnel

From the first cheque written to a $10B+ outcome. Each arrow shows what fraction of companies at one stage graduate to the next, tracked by founding cohort.

Pre-Seed

Seed

Series A

Series B

Series C

* Conversion rates are derived from current counts.

VC investment

How much venture capital flows into Hyogo Prefecture

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

Location comparison

How Hyogo Prefecture stacks up

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

$35.5B

$30.1B

$29.2B

$26.3B

$24.9B

$24.3B

$23.6B

$18.2B

Hyogo Prefecture

$10.4B

Combined enterprise value of each ecosystem.

Premium analytics

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

Sector breakdowns, founder origins, AI-talent leaderboards and live deal flow are gated to logged-in Dealroom users. Book a demo to access the full Hyogo Prefecture dataset — or see a sample on the Dealroom app.

Sector breakdown

Where Hyogo Prefecture's unicorns concentrate

Fintech

AI / Enterprise SW

Health Tech

Biotech

Cybersecurity

Consumer

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Capital autonomy

Hyogo Prefecture'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

Hyogo Prefecture'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 Hyogo Prefecture'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 Hyogo Prefecture

Core AI roles

Frontier AI roles

YoY hiring growth

Senior + lead engineers

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Deal flow

Live deal flow & funding rounds in Hyogo Prefecture

New rounds last 30 days

Stage breakdown

Active investors

Round-size trends

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Country Japan Asia · Pop. 124M · #14 startup ecosystem by EV Region Asia Continent / region · #4 region by EV

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