Startup funding databases in 2026: how to access one

/startups/ lists every sector, funding stage, city, country and accelerator that clears the 20 row floor, each with its count beside it. Sectors run from software at 82,702 companies down through health care at 27,975 and artificial intelligence at 27,762. Cities are the block to use for this walk.

755 cities have a page. 105 countries have one.

/startups/in/london-england/ prints the size of the slice above the table. The table shows the top 100 rows by the rank carried in the file, with company, city, funding stage, last round type, round date and total raised. The count above it is the whole slice, not the hundred rows on screen, and that difference is the one people get wrong when they quote a list page.

6,047 funded companies in London.

The funding stages block on the city page splits those companies by the stage they are at: 3,061 at seed, 1,602 at pre-seed, 925 at Series A, 309 at Series B, 106 at Series C and 44 at Series D or later. A company sits at one stage, so these add to the city total.

3,061 seed stage companies in London, 925 at Series A.

The sectors block on the same page reads 3,505 software, 1,367 fintech, 1,236 artificial intelligence, and on down. These do not add to 6,047. A company carries up to five sector groups, so a fintech company running on machine learning is counted in both blocks.

3,505 software companies in London, 1,236 in artificial intelligence.

/rounds/seed/ is the master page for one stage across the whole file: 83,103 companies whose most recent round was a seed round. Its cities block links back to the city pages, so London appears there with the same 3,061 that the city page printed. The two pages read the same file and cannot disagree.

83,103 companies whose most recent round was a seed round.

/data/funded-startups/ is the figure page behind all of this. It prints the value, the unit, the date of the file, the change since the previous snapshot once two exist, and the table of stages behind the number. That page is the one to link at when the sentence needs a total rather than a slice.

166,525 funded startups, dated 23 October 2026.

Four lines from /method/ decide what these numbers mean. They are quoted here as they are written there.

• A company is counted in the month of its most recent round.
• Total raised is the sum the source records in US dollars. Rounds raised in other currencies are converted by the source, not here.
• Months near the data date are incomplete, so the most recent month undercounts.
• At most five investors are carried per company. A round with more backers is truncated, so an investor count on a profile is a floor, not a total.

The first line is the one that bites. A company that raised twice in a year appears in one month, so a month on the rounds chart counts companies whose most recent round landed then, not rounds closed then.

Method

Both citation forms are printed on the site. The first is the general one from /method/, the second is the line a figure page prints ready to copy.

The file carries the most recent round only, so it cannot answer what a company raised in 2021, who led that round or at what valuation. It carries no round by round history, no valuations beyond the billion dollar mark that sets the unicorn flag, and no contact details. A company with no published city is absent from every city page, and a slice under 20 rows has no page at all, so smaller cities are missing rather than empty. The most recent month always undercounts.

There is no download and no API. Everything here is read on the page.