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Western Australia

State · Australia · Pop. 2.9M

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239 Pool of Funded Startups
New Startups
93 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures
25 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment
get funded 27%
220Startups
91 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M
106 Seed Startups$1–4M
23 Series A Startups$4–15M
Seed to Series A 14%
15Breakouts
12 Series B Breakouts$15–40M
3 Series C Breakouts$40–100M
4Scaleups
3 Mega Scaleups$100–250M
reach Mega 1.3%
1 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+
reach Mega+ 0.42%
1Valuation Outcomes
1 Unicorns($1–10B valuation)
reach Unicorn 0.42%
Pre-Seed
91
Seed
106
Series A
23
Series B
12
Series C
3
Unicorn
1

* 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.

Largest rounds

Largest funding rounds in Western Australia

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

Largest rounds in Western Australia - 2026

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

How much venture capital flows into Western Australia

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

Academia

Western Australia's academic flywheel

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

University-linked startup formation
35
University spinouts
296
Total alumni-founded companies
206
Of which startups (<$15M raised)
68
Breakouts ($15M-100M)
22
Scaleups ($100M+)

Location comparison

How Western Australia stacks up

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

New South Wales
$183B
Victoria
$64.2B
Queensland
$15B
Western Australia
$5.6B
Tasmania
$4.3B
South Australia
$3.1B

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 Western Australia dataset — or see a sample on the Dealroom app.

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