Public sector profiles
The 18 sectors that move the venture economy.
Dealroom classifies every tracked startup into exactly one sector via priority-based taxonomy. Here's the public face of each — combined EV, unicorn density, top hubs, and the headliners that anchor each market. Plus three cross-cutting views — Deep Tech, Climate Tech and Quantum Computing — that span them all.
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AI
#1
$3.5TCombined EV
320Unicorns
28Decacorns
$145BVC last 12mo
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Fintech
#2
$1.9TCombined EV
318Unicorns
28Decacorns
$38BVC last 12mo
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Other B2B Software
#3
$1.7TCombined EV
305Unicorns
22Decacorns
$28BVC last 12mo
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Consumer Services
#4
$1.3TCombined EV
220Unicorns
18Decacorns
$22BVC last 12mo
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Biotech & Life Sciences
#5
$1.1TCombined EV
158Unicorns
9Decacorns
$26BVC last 12mo
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eCommerce & Marketplaces
#6
$1.1TCombined EV
175Unicorns
14Decacorns
$18BVC last 12mo
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Energy
#7
$920BCombined EV
110Unicorns
11Decacorns
$32BVC last 12mo
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Transportation
#8
$880BCombined EV
88Unicorns
13Decacorns
$19BVC last 12mo
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Health Tech & Medtech
#9
$720BCombined EV
142Unicorns
6Decacorns
$16BVC last 12mo
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Cybersecurity
#10
$480BCombined EV
92Unicorns
5Decacorns
$14BVC last 12mo
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Space
#11
$380BCombined EV
32Unicorns
4Decacorns
$7.4BVC last 12mo
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Food
#12
$320BCombined EV
56Unicorns
5Decacorns
$5.8BVC last 12mo
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Semiconductors
#13
$240BCombined EV
26Unicorns
3Decacorns
$8.4BVC last 12mo
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Edtech
#14
$220BCombined EV
38Unicorns
2Decacorns
$4.2BVC last 12mo
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Defence
#15
$175BCombined EV
28Unicorns
2Decacorns
$6.2BVC last 12mo
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Robotics
#16
$165BCombined EV
28Unicorns
3Decacorns
$9.1BVC last 12mo
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Marketing
#17
$150BCombined EV
38Unicorns
2Decacorns
$4.4BVC last 12mo
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Aviation
#18
$95BCombined EV
12Unicorns
1Decacorns
$3.8BVC last 12mo
Cross-cutting technologies
Deep Tech, Climate Tech and Quantum Computing aren't part of the 18 mutually-exclusive sectors — they're cross-cutting categories whose companies are classified across many of those sectors at once (a fusion startup is Deep Tech, Climate Tech and Energy; a quantum-hardware startup is Quantum Computing, Deep Tech and Semiconductors). Their counts overlap the sectors above by design.