🏛️

Saarland

State · Germany · Pop. 994K

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

🦄 Unicorns & $1B exits

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

🐎 Thoroughbreds

2024→2025 movement · +0 new

Enterprise value

$540.9M

Actual EV series, 2015-2025

Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in Saarland

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

Largest rounds in Saarland - 2026

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

- rounds · - raised

Loading rounds...

Live from Dealroom API Open full VC dashboard

Startup funnel

Saarland'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

* Conversion rates are derived from current counts.

VC investment

How much venture capital flows into Saarland

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

Academia

Saarland's academic flywheel

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

University-linked startup formation

University spinouts

Total alumni-founded companies

Of which startups (<$15M raised)

Breakouts ($15M-100M)

Scaleups ($100M+)

Location comparison

How Saarland stacks up

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

$2.8B

$2.7B

$1B

$700.2M

$658.5M

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

$647.6M

Saarland

$540.9M

Combined enterprise value of each ecosystem.

Top regions in Germany ranked by combined EV. Saarland's row is highlighted (#12).

#	Ecosystem	Combined EV	EV growth	Unicorns	VC invested	Tracked startups
1	Berlin	$181B	3.7×	35	$2.7B	2,925
2	Bavaria	$113B	6.4×	27	$3.3B	1,702
3	Nordrhein-Westfalen	$26.7B	3.4×	9	$674.6M	1,140
4	Baden-Württemberg	$24.4B	3.9×	8	$885.9M	706
5	Hamburg	$16.9B	5.0×	5	$167.9M	669
6	Hesse	$14.8B	3.0×	4	$196.5M	501
7	Rhineland-Palatinate	$8.8B	3.6×	2	$75.8M	151
8	Saxony	$7B	6.3×	1	$63M	283
9	Lower Saxony	$4.7B	9.5×	4	$59.5M	187
10	Brandenburg	$2.8B	2.8×	0	$142.6M	175
11	Saxony-Anhalt	$2.7B	2.0×	0	$17.7M	81
16	Saarland	$540.9M	1.6×	0	$0	39

More data

Explore Dealroom data →

Country Germany Europe · Pop. 83.5M · #8 startup ecosystem by EV Region Europe Continent / region · #7 region by EV

Get the full Saarland ecosystem on Dealroom

Live company-by-company deal flow, full cap tables, founder pedigrees, hiring signals and revenue trajectories.

Book a demo