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 two cross-cutting views — Deep Tech and Climate Tech — 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 and Climate Tech 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). Their counts overlap the sectors above by design.