China
Asia · Pop. 1409M · #2 startup ecosystem by EV
1 Overview
* 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.
2 Largest rounds
Largest funding rounds in China
A live treemap of $100M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Each cell is one round into a China-headquartered company, grouped by Dealroom sector.
Largest rounds in China - 2024–2026
3 Startup hubs
Inside China: 12 startup hubs, 567 universities
Hubs are sized by combined enterprise value; universities and research institutes by the startup founders they produced. Hover any point for its numbers; the lists rank hubs by EV and universities by founders.
4 VC investment
How much venture capital flows into China
VC investment into China-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage.
5 Founder origins
Where China's unicorn founders build
1,152 founders born in China are behind 565 unicorns; 15% of those were built in the US. Origins are resolved from biography and education history, not current address. Compare with the other origin countries in Asia, ranked by founders or per 1M inhabitants.
6 Location comparison
Unicorns, decacorns and centicorns — China in a global comparison
Companies count where they were founded or are headquartered. Values are per 1M people or totals, as a share of the US (US = 100%) or absolute; bars scale to the largest value in each column. Hover any value for the per-1M rate and absolute count.
7 Patent intelligence
China startup IP portfolio: 1.2M patent families
Granted patent families assigned to startups headquartered in China. Aggregated across the country's hub-level filings — Bay Area, Boston, etc. roll up under the United States row, the same way Tokyo and Osaka roll up under Japan.
8 Sector concentration
Where China punches above its weight
Sectors in which China's share of the global unicorn pool is bigger than its overall share. A 5× over-index means China is 5× more represented in that sector than in the global average. Source: top-hub aggregation across the 18 simplified sectors.
9 Premium analytics
What we don't show on this page (yet)
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