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Virginia

State · United States · Pop. 8.8M · #30 region by EV

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🦄 New unicorns by year
2
Annual $1B+ outcomes, unsmoothed
🐎 Cumulative thoroughbreds
20
Company revenue history, 2016-2025
Enterprise value
$142B
Actual EV series, 2015-2025

Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in Virginia

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

Largest rounds in Virginia - 2026

Every $100M+ VC round into Virginia-headquartered companies in 2026, grouped by Dealroom sector.
- rounds · - raised
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Startup funnel

Virginia'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
316
Seed
329
Series A
314
Series B
218
Series C
107
Unicorn
23
Decacorn
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.

VC investment

How much venture capital flows into Virginia

VC investment into Virginia-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 Virginia

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 2
VeriSignQuality Technology Services
Unicorns $1B+ valuation 23
InterosSpire GlobalBlackSky GlobalIronNet CybersecurityCaribouClarabridgeSeekr TechnologiesHawkEye 360NextnavElectrify AmericaID.me2UQuantum ComputingMandiantEvolentAppianExpelMission LaneCventStride+2 more
Thoroughbreds+ $100M+ revenue 20
StridePrivia HealthEvolentVeriSignVeriSign Authentication ServicesQuality Technology ServicesSomatusAppiancomScoreExpelUrgentlyBlackSky GlobalHawkEye 360AuterionSpire GlobalQuantum ComputingOmeros2UID.meSeekr Technologies

Academia

Virginia's academic flywheel

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

University-linked startup formation
35
University spinouts
1,795
Total alumni-founded companies
1,076
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
551
Breakouts ($15M-100M)
168
Scaleups ($100M+)

Location comparison

How Virginia stacks up

Compare Virginia with peers from the same country (United States) — switch between combined EV, 5-year EV growth, and a growth × size view. Expand the table for the full ranking.

$264B
$263B
$215B
$188B
Virginia
$170B
$153B
$137B

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

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