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1 Startup funnel
Spain's startup funnel
Companies headquartered in Spain at each stage today, by total VC raised. Hover or tap a bar for the split.
Source: Dealroom.co
2 Latest quarter
Spain's latest quarter in venture capital
Venture capital raised by Spain-headquartered companies each quarter since 2020, split by round size, with detail on the latest complete quarter.
Latest complete quarter
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3 Enterprise value
How much Spain’s VC-backed companies are worth
Combined enterprise value of VC-backed companies headquartered in Spain, founded since 1990 and still operating, at the end of each year. Companies stay in the total after they list or are acquired.
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 Largest rounds
Largest funding rounds in Spain
A live treemap of $40M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Each cell is one round into a company headquartered in Spain, grouped by Dealroom sector.
Largest rounds in Spain - 2024–2026
6 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.
7 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.
8 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.
9 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.
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