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Nordics

Continent / region · Europe · Pop. 28.3M · #17 region by EV

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🦄 New unicorns by year
10
Annual $1B+ outcomes, unsmoothed
🐎 Cumulative thoroughbreds
130
Company revenue history, 2016-2025
Enterprise value
$610B
Actual EV series, 2015-2025

Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in Nordics

A live treemap of $100M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Each cell is one round into Nordics-headquartered companies, grouped by Dealroom sector.

Largest rounds in Nordics - 2026

Every $100M+ VC round into Nordics-headquartered companies in 2026, grouped by Dealroom sector.
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Top sub-locations

Inside Nordics: top 5 sub-locations

Sub-locations inside Nordics ranked by combined enterprise value, paired with their 5-year growth multiplier.

By enterprise value
1 Sweden $286B
2 Denmark $141B
3 Finland $78.9B
4 Norway $65.7B
5 Iceland $9.7B
By 5-yr EV growth
1 Norway 8.8×
2 Sweden 5.5×
3 Iceland
4 Denmark 4.3×
5 Finland 3.9×

Startup funnel

Nordics'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
2,707
Seed
1,978
Series A
1,352
Series B
477
Series C
242
Unicorn
96
Decacorn
9

* 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.

VC investment

How much venture capital flows into Nordics

VC investment into Nordics-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage. Live from the Dealroom Next Gen API.

Notable companies

Top private companies in Nordics

Up to 20 names per tier from Dealroom's tracked dataset. Decacorns are valued $10B+, unicorns $1B+, thoroughbreds have crossed $100M in revenue.

Decacorns $10B+ valuation 9
GenmabSpotifyEvolutionVismaBending SpoonsAscendis PharmaSupercellŌURAUnity Technologies
Unicorns $1B+ valuation 96
MySQLVitrolifePleoKing.comMilDef GroupPlejdForgeRockTinkDune AnalyticsNCAB GroupBHG GroupStorytelXvivo perfusionRecorded FutureGalecto | Damora TherapeuticsKerecisQlikNykode TherapeuticsKryCELLINK+76 more
Thoroughbreds+ $100M+ revenue 130
SpotifyGenmabKlarnaSinchEmbracerDometic GroupEvolutionUnity TechnologiesBHG GroupNetcompanyBending SpoonsBooztŌURAHumble GroupBavarian NordicApoteaOatlyLink MobilityAscendis PharmaSaxo Bank

Academia

Nordics's academic flywheel

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

University-linked startup formation
1,717
University spinouts
7,649
Total alumni-founded companies
5,468
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
1,727
Breakouts ($15M-100M)
454
Scaleups ($100M+)

Location comparison

How Nordics stacks up

Compare Nordics with peers from other continents / multi-country regions — switch between combined EV, 5-year EV growth, and a growth × size view. Expand the table for the full ranking.

$4.6T
$3.8T
Nordics
$581B
$368B
$142B
$73.6B

Combined enterprise value of each ecosystem.

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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 Nordics dataset — or see a sample on the Dealroom app.

Sector breakdown
Where Nordics's unicorns concentrate
Fintech
AI / Enterprise SW
Health Tech
Biotech
Cybersecurity
Consumer
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Capital autonomy
Nordics'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
Nordics'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 Nordics'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 Nordics
Core AI roles
Frontier AI roles
YoY hiring growth
Senior + lead engineers
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Deal flow
Live deal flow & funding rounds in Nordics
New rounds last 30 days
Stage breakdown
Active investors
Round-size trends
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