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Valencia

State · Spain · Pop. 5.1M

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$6.1B+41%
Combined startup EV
$301.2M
VC invested (last 12mo)
408
Tracked startups
#62/ 69
Unicorns per 1M people · regions rank
🦄 Unicorns
2
2 live $1B+ companies
💎 Decacorns
0
🐎 Thoroughbreds
1
Top 1% growth · $500M+

Enterprise value · 2015–2025

Valencia grew 10.0× since 2015

Combined enterprise value of every tracked startup headquartered in Valencia that's still operating today — public and private companies combined, totalled by founding-year cohort.

0 $1.5B $3B $4.5B $6B Valencia · $5.4B 2015 2018 2021 2024 2025

Adjacent regions by EV

Startup funnel

Valencia'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
193
Seed
93
Series A
36
Series B
12
Series C
5
Unicorn
2

* 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.

Notable companies

Top private companies in Valencia

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

Unicorns $1B+ valuation 2
FlywireIgenomix
Thoroughbreds+ $100M+ revenue 1
Flywire

Academia

Valencia's academic flywheel

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

University-linked startup formation
117
University spinouts
350
Total alumni-founded companies
282
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
56
Breakouts ($15M-100M)
12
Scaleups ($100M+)

Vs. similarly-sized ecosystems

How Valencia stacks up

Peers chosen from the same country (Spain), sized closest to Valencia by combined EV. The scatter plots growth × current size — outliers in the upper-right are ecosystems compounding fastest.

Combined enterprise value
$16.7B
$14.5B
$14.2B
$7.1B
Valencia
$6.1B
$3.9B
$2.7B
EV growth (5-yr ×) vs current EV
peer median 5.2× 2.7× 5.0× 7.3× $6.1B $117B $2.3T EV growth (5yr ×) Combined enterprise value (log) European Union Nordics Central Eastern Europe Berlin Bavaria Valencia

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