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SpainPlatform

Europe · Pop. 48.8M · #20 startup ecosystem by EV

A public taster of the full Spain ecosystem on Dealroom — request a demo for live deal flow, founder pedigrees, AI-talent maps, and the full cap table for every company below.

1 Overview

3,754 Pool of Funded Startups
1,257 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures
462 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment
get funded 37%
1,818 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M
1,079 Seed Startups$1–4M
Pre-Seed to Seed 24%
535 Series A Startups$4–15M
Seed to Series A 22%
176 Series B Breakouts$15–40M
A to Series B 34%
89 Series C Breakouts$40–100M
B to Series C 34%
38 Mega Scaleups$100–250M
reach Mega 1.0%
19 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+
reach Mega+ 0.51%
18 Unicorns($1–10B valuation)
reach Unicorn 0.48%
Pre-Seed
1,818
Seed
1,079
Series A
535
Series B
176
Series C
89
Unicorn
18

* 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 Spain

A live treemap of $40M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Each cell is one round into a Spain-headquartered company, grouped by Dealroom sector.

Largest rounds in Spain - 2024–2026

Every $40M+ VC round into Spain-headquartered companies in 2024–2026, grouped by Dealroom sector.
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3 Startup hubs

Inside Spain: 6 startup hubs, 509 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.

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By enterprise value · 5-yr growth
1 Madrid $47.1B 4.6× 5-yr
2 Barcelona $40.6B 4.9× 5-yr
3 Bilbao $1.8B 4.1× 5-yr
4 Seville $1B 7.6× 5-yr
5 Málaga $650.2M 4.6× 5-yr
6 Tarragona $206.2M 10× 5-yr

4 VC investment

How much venture capital flows into Spain

VC investment into Spain-headquartered, VC-backed companies, broken down by round size, company location, sector and funding stage.

5 Founder origins

Where Spain's unicorn founders build

49 founders born in Spain are behind 29 unicorns; 38% 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.

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6 Location comparison

Unicorns, decacorns and centicorns — Spain 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

Spain startup IP portfolio: 6,697 patent families

Granted patent families assigned to startups headquartered in Spain. 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.

Granted patent families
6,697
Filed by tracked startups headquartered in the country.
137 patents per million residents · #30 globally
Top patenting hubs
1 Community of Madrid 3,346
2 Bilbao Metropolitan Area 2,149
3 Barcelona Area 951
4 Valencian Community 229
5 Province of Málaga 22

8 Premium analytics

What we don't show on this page (yet)

Sector breakdowns, founder origins, AI-talent leaderboards and live deal flow are gated to logged-in Dealroom users. Book a demo to access the full Spain dataset — or see a sample on the Dealroom app.

Sector breakdown
Where Spain's unicorns concentrate
Fintech
AI / Enterprise SW
Health Tech
Biotech
Cybersecurity
Consumer
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Capital autonomy
Spain's domestic vs foreign capital mix
% domestic VC by stage
Cross-border lead investors
Sovereign-fund participation
Foreign-LP exposure
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Recent momentum
Spain's VC investment trajectory by stage
2024 vs 2025 by stage
Round-size trends
Stage-conversion deltas
Quarterly velocity
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Founder origins
Where Spain's startup founders come from
By country of origin
Per capita
Top universities
Top alumni-factory companies
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AI talent
Top employers of AI talent in Spain
Core AI roles
Frontier AI roles
YoY hiring growth
Senior + lead engineers
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Deal flow
Live deal flow & funding rounds in Spain
New rounds last 30 days
Stage breakdown
Active investors
Round-size trends
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