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TürkiyePlatform

Asia · Pop. 85.5M · #30 startup ecosystem by EV

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1 Overview

1,254 Pool of Funded Startups
458 Annual Startups FoundedAll new ventures
153 Annual Startups FundedReceived investment
get funded 33%
737 Pre-Seed Startups$100K–1M
324 Seed Startups$1–4M
Pre-Seed to Seed 13%
119 Series A Startups$4–15M
Seed to Series A 17%
45 Series B Breakouts$15–40M
A to Series B 38%
19 Series C Breakouts$40–100M
4 Mega Scaleups$100–250M
reach Mega 0.32%
6 Mega+ Scaleups$250M+
reach Mega+ 0.48%
10 Unicorns($1–10B valuation)
reach Unicorn 0.80%
Pre-Seed
737
Seed
324
Series A
119
Series B
45
Series C
19
Unicorn
10

* 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 Türkiye

A live treemap of $15M+ rounds from the Dealroom API. Each cell is one round into a Türkiye-headquartered company, grouped by Dealroom sector.

Largest rounds in Türkiye - 2024–2026

Every $15M+ VC round into Türkiye-headquartered companies in 2024–2026, grouped by Dealroom sector.
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3 Startup hubs

Inside Türkiye: 2 startup hubs, 205 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 Istanbul $49.7B 17× 5-yr
2 Ankara $1.9B 25× 5-yr

4 VC investment

How much venture capital flows into Türkiye

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

5 Founder origins

Where Türkiye's unicorn founders build

51 founders born in Türkiye are behind 27 unicorns; 44% 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.

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6 Location comparison

How Türkiye stacks up

Compare Türkiye with similarly sized ecosystems in Asia — switch between combined EV, 5-year EV growth, and a growth × size view. Expand the table for the full ranking.

$179B
$64.9B
$61.5B
Türkiye
$52.6B
$34.3B
$33.9B
$21.1B

Combined enterprise value of each ecosystem.

7 Patent intelligence

Türkiye startup IP portfolio: 1,530 patent families

Granted patent families assigned to startups headquartered in Türkiye. 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
1,530
Filed by tracked startups headquartered in the country.
17.9 patents per million residents · #43 globally
Top patenting hubs
1 Istanbul 1,517
2 Ankara Metropolitan Area, Turkiye 13

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 Türkiye dataset — or see a sample on the Dealroom app.

Sector breakdown
Where Türkiye's unicorns concentrate
Fintech
AI / Enterprise SW
Health Tech
Biotech
Cybersecurity
Consumer
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Capital autonomy
Türkiye'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
Türkiye'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 Türkiye'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 Türkiye
Core AI roles
Frontier AI roles
YoY hiring growth
Senior + lead engineers
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Deal flow
Live deal flow & funding rounds in Türkiye
New rounds last 30 days
Stage breakdown
Active investors
Round-size trends
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