DenmarkPlatform
Europe · Pop. 6M · #19 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 Denmark
A live treemap of $15M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Each cell is one round into a Denmark-headquartered company, grouped by Dealroom sector.
Largest rounds in Denmark - 2024–2026
3 Startup hubs
Inside Denmark: 3 startup hubs, 142 universities
Hubs are sized by combined enterprise value; universities 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 Denmark
VC investment into Denmark-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage.
5 Founder origins
Where Denmark's unicorn founders build
57 founders born in Denmark are behind 31 unicorns; 45% 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 Europe, ranked by founders or per 1M inhabitants.
6 Location comparison
Unicorns, decacorns and centicorns — Denmark 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
Denmark startup IP portfolio: 27.1K patent families
Granted patent families assigned to startups headquartered in Denmark. 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 Premium analytics
What we don't show on this page (yet)
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