Deep Tech
Frontier science & engineering — AI, chips, space, robotics, quantum
At a glance
1.1 Overview
1.2 Startup funnel
Deep Tech's power-law funnel
Of the 26650 VC-backed companies above, this is how the funded cohort narrows through rounds, scaleup thresholds and valuation or revenue outcomes. Hover the outcome bars for example company names.
Deep Tech startup funnel
Funded companies that have raised at least $100K
1.3 🔥 Hottest sub-segments
What's heating up inside Deep Tech
Every Deep Tech sub-segment as a heat-mapped treemap: each box is sized by the number of VC-backed companies Dealroom tracks, and the 🔥 badges mark the hottest — heat blends 5-year EV growth with year-on-year VC momentum. The sleeper: Humanoid runs hotter than the larger Synthetic Biology. Switch to the scatter view to plot scale against heat and pick out the frontier. Hover a segment to see its hottest names.
Box size = VC-backed companies Dealroom tracks in each sub-segment (20.4K across the 18, before overlap). The 3 smallest fields are drawn at a floor size so their labels stay legible. 🔥 marks heat tier — 0.6 × 5-year EV growth + 0.4 × year-on-year VC momentum, each on a fixed scale. Segments overlap, so a company can sit in more than one. Request a demo for the underlying company lists.
Each Deep Tech sub-segment plotted by scale (VC-backed companies, log axis) against Dealroom's composite heat score — the same blend of five-year EV growth and recent VC momentum that badges the treemap, here on the vertical axis (exact values withheld; only the relative picture is shown). Bubble size is the unicorns it has produced. The dashed line is the size–heat trade-off: bigger fields tend to run cooler, so the 8 sub-segments above it are the frontier — hotter than their scale would predict. Segments overlap, so a company can sit in more than one. Request a demo for the underlying company lists.
The companies
2.1 Related market maps
Dive deeper: Deep Tech market maps
Hand-curated landscape charts from the Dealroom data team. Each map ranks every tracked startup in the segment by valuation, revenue, growth and funding.
Browse the full collection of 170+ market maps on Dealroom.
The money
3.1 Rounds & valuations
Largest Deep Tech rounds & most valuable companies
A live treemap of $100M+ rounds — or switch the view to size companies by their latest valuation (EV). Filter by HQ region; drag the year slider to add earlier rounds.
Largest Deep Tech rounds - Global 2026
3.2 VC investment
When the capital landed in Deep Tech
VC investment into Deep Tech companies over the last decade, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage. Counts VC rounds into companies tagged or classified to Deep Tech. Live from the Dealroom Next Gen API.
3.3 By destination
Where Deep Tech capital lands
The same Deep Tech VC, by destination — group by continent, country, city or sector, switch between amount raised and number of rounds, and read it as a ranked bar chart or a heat map over time. Live from the Dealroom Next Gen API.
Geography & talent
4.1 Geographic concentration
Where Deep Tech concentrates
Unicorns headquartered in each major region, plus the leading European and Israeli ecosystems. Asia — led by China — ranks high on volume; Dealroom breaks out country-level detail for the markets shown.
Benchmark & beyond
5.1 Sector comparison
The sectors Deep Tech cuts across
Deep Tech isn't one of Dealroom's 18 mutually-exclusive sectors — it's a cross-cutting category whose companies are classified across many of them. Here's how those sectors compare by combined EV, 5-year growth and size; Deep Tech's own $22.5T EV overlaps several at once.
Combined enterprise value of each sector.
Every one of the 18 simplified sectors, ranked by combined EV — the landscape Deep Tech spans.
| # | Ecosystem | Combined EV | 5-yr EV growth | Unicorns | VC invested | Tracked startups |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AI | $3.5T | 9.2× | 320 | $145B | 18.5K |
| 2 | Fintech | $1.9T | 4.8× | 318 | $38B | 21.8K |
| 3 | Other B2B Software | $1.7T | 4.4× | 305 | $28B | 36K |
| 4 | Consumer Services | $1.3T | 2.4× | 220 | $22B | 23K |
| 5 | Biotech & Life Sciences | $1.1T | 3.4× | 158 | $26B | 9,200 |
| 6 | eCommerce & Marketplaces | $1.1T | 2.8× | 175 | $18B | 18.8K |
| 7 | Energy | $920B | 6.2× | 110 | $32B | 7,600 |
| 8 | Transportation | $880B | 3.7× | 88 | $19B | 4,400 |
| 9 | Health Tech & Medtech | $720B | 4.1× | 142 | $16B | 12.4K |
| 10 | Cybersecurity | $480B | 4.4× | 92 | $14B | 6,800 |
| 11 | Space | $380B | 5.6× | 32 | $7.4B | 1,400 |
| 12 | Food | $320B | 3.0× | 56 | $5.8B | 4,200 |
| 13 | Semiconductors | $240B | 7.6× | 26 | $8.4B | 980 |
| 14 | Edtech | $220B | 2.1× | 38 | $4.2B | 5,800 |
| 15 | Defence | $175B | 7.8× | 28 | $6.2B | 720 |
| 16 | Robotics | $165B | 6.1× | 28 | $9.1B | 1,600 |
| 17 | Marketing | $150B | 3.6× | 38 | $4.4B | 6,200 |
| 18 | Aviation | $95B | 4.2× | 12 | $3.8B | 540 |
5.2 Premium analytics
What we don't show on this page (yet)
Founder origins, AI-talent leaderboards, live deal flow and the patent landscape are gated to logged-in Dealroom users. Book a demo to access the full Deep Tech dataset.
5.3 Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Deep Tech
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Deep Tech on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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