North America
Continent / region · Pop. 389.6M · #2 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.
Quarterly report
North America's latest quarter in venture capital
VC raised by companies in North America in the quarter shown, against the quarter before and the same quarter a year earlier.
Latest complete quarter
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Largest rounds
Largest funding rounds in North America
A live treemap of the largest VC rounds. Each cell is one round into North America-headquartered companies, grouped by Dealroom sector.
Largest rounds in North America - 2026
VC investment
How much venture capital flows into North America
VC investment into North America-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage.
Country leaders
Which North America countries raise the most — and grow the fastest
VC investment by country across North America. Pick a year (the current year is year-to-date) and switch between the biggest markets and the fastest-growing ones.
Academia
North America's academic flywheel
Companies founded by university alumni or spun out of research, plus the institutions producing the most founders tied to North America.
| # | University | City | Unicorns | Companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇺🇸Stanford University | Stanford, CA | 478 | 13K |
| 2 | 🇺🇸Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | 320 | 9,055 |
| 3 | 🇺🇸MIT | Cambridge, MA | 295 | 9,472 |
| 4 | 🇺🇸UC Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | 190 | 8,909 |
| 5 | 🇺🇸University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | 165 | 3,653 |
| 6 | 🇺🇸Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA | 88 | 2,845 |
| 7 | 🇺🇸Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | 80 | 2,517 |
| 8 | 🇺🇸Yale University | New Haven, CT | 72 | 3,314 |
Location comparison
How North America stacks up
Compare North America with peers from other continents / multi-country regions — switch between combined EV, EV growth, and a growth × size view. Expand the table for the full ranking.
Combined enterprise value of each ecosystem.
Top regions globally ranked by combined EV. North America's row is highlighted (#2).
| # | Ecosystem | Combined EV | EV growth | Unicorns | VC invested | Tracked startups |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | World | $43.9T | 7.1× | 4,137 | $449B | 295.7K |
| 2 | North America | $31T | 8.0× | 2,466 | $287B | 122.8K |
| 3 | Asia | $9.1T | 5.8× | 1,023 | $89.9B | 76.7K |
| 4 | EMEA | $4.6T | 5.0× | 919 | $87.5B | 93.3K |
| 5 | Europe | $3.8T | 4.8× | 743 | $71.8B | 78.5K |
| 6 | European Union | $2.3T | 4.8× | 447 | $38B | 50.2K |
| 7 | Nordics | $587B | 6.0× | 110 | $8.3B | 8,551 |
| 8 | South America | $522B | 16.0× | 72 | $4.9B | 8,968 |
| 9 | Oceania | $340B | 12.2× | 57 | $5.4B | 5,875 |
| 10 | Central Eastern Europe | $195B | 6.3× | 62 | $2.3B | 7,376 |
| 11 | MENA | $136B | 13.0× | 34 | $5.7B | 4,634 |
| 12 | Africa | $74.8B | 9.5× | 14 | $1.4B | 4,668 |
Sector concentration
Where North America punches above its weight
Sectors in which North America's share of the global unicorn pool is bigger than its overall share. A 5× over-index means North America is 5× more represented in that sector than in the global average. Source: top-hub aggregation across the 18 simplified sectors.
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