Capital Atlas — the world's startup funding, mapped
Capital Atlas is an interactive world map of company funding. It visualizes where venture capital flows, showing which cities concentrate the most startup funding. The dataset covers 123 metros across 60 countries with a full 2020–2026 funding series for each (2026 shown year-to-date), totaling $410B of venture capital invested in 2025 (a sharp, AI-led surge to the third-largest year on record), compiled from PitchBook-NVCA, Crunchbase, CB Insights, KPMG, Dealroom, and Startup Genome.
The map includes a dedicated AI investment lens that shows AI/ML-specific venture funding for every metro and year, isolating the artificial-intelligence theme (which took roughly half of all global venture dollars in 2025) as a cross-cutting view rather than a single sector.
Every figure is drillable to its underlying data. Beneath each metro's published total sits a cited deal ledger of 344 individual funding rounds, each linked to the source that reported it, refreshed on a recurring weekly sweep of PitchBook-NVCA, Crunchbase, CB Insights, Dealroom, and the leading AI-market trackers.
Leading startup funding hubs in 2025
- San Francisco Bay Area, United States: $155B of venture capital across 3500 deals, with 320 unicorns. Leading sectors: AI/ML, Enterprise SaaS, Fintech, Developer Tools, Biotech.
- New York City, United States: $33B of venture capital across 1400 deals, with 135 unicorns. Leading sectors: Fintech, Enterprise SaaS, AI, Healthtech, Media & Commerce.
- London, United Kingdom: $16.5B of venture capital across 1450 deals, with 100 unicorns. Leading sectors: Fintech, AI/ML, Enterprise SaaS, Climate Tech, Healthtech.
- Boston-Cambridge, United States: $15B of venture capital across 620 deals, with 50 unicorns. Leading sectors: Life Sciences & Biotech, AI, Enterprise Software, Robotics, Climate Tech.
- Tel Aviv, Israel: $14.8B of venture capital across 640 deals, with 95 unicorns. Leading sectors: Cybersecurity, Enterprise AI, Fintech, Defense tech, Developer tools.
- Beijing, China: $10.2B of venture capital across 1150 deals, with 75 unicorns. Leading sectors: Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Autonomous Driving, Semiconductors, Robotics.
- Los Angeles, United States: $8.3B of venture capital across 600 deals, with 55 unicorns. Leading sectors: Aerospace/Defense, Fintech, Consumer/Media, Gaming, Space.
- Austin, United States: $7.2B of venture capital across 272 deals, with 15 unicorns. Leading sectors: Enterprise SaaS, AI/ML, Robotics/Manufacturing, Fintech, Consumer.
- Shanghai, China: $6.7B of venture capital across 1080 deals, with 43 unicorns. Leading sectors: Semiconductors, Biotech, Fintech, Electric Vehicles, Artificial Intelligence.
- San Diego, United States: $6.5B of venture capital across 152 deals, with 14 unicorns. Leading sectors: Biotech/Life Sciences, Genomics, Medtech, Defense Tech, Wireless/Semiconductors.
- Paris, France: $6.2B of venture capital across 600 deals, with 27 unicorns. Leading sectors: AI, Fintech, Healthtech, Deeptech, SaaS.
- Washington, United States: $5.4B of venture capital across 323 deals, with 18 unicorns. Leading sectors: Govtech & Defense Tech, Cybersecurity, Fintech, Healthtech, Climate Tech.
