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Venture capital partners now underwrite Series A meetings against $25B outcomes. According to SaaStr, this marks a shift from the unicorn hunts of ten years ago and the subsequent focus on decacorns. There are now 60+ companies valued above $25B, representing a 13.5x increase in the supply of outcomes large funds seek.
Public companies at $25B+ market cap rose from 6 to 18 to 60 over twenty years. Private companies at the same valuation went from 0 to 5 to 21 in the same period.
Carta released its Startup Ecosystem Leaderboard covering the $124 billion invested into startups on its platform from July 2025 through June 2026. The Bay Area received 41.3% of that total, or $51.3 billion, for companies headquartered in the metro. New York received 18.0% and Boston received 8.7%.
The Bay Area captured nearly 2.5 times the capital of the New York ecosystem across all categories.