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As we reported in our Q2 2009 Venture Capital activity report, California was where almost 43% of dollars and almost 40% of deals went in the quarter. Of course, Silicon Valley maintained its position as the mecca for startups and entrepreneurship garnering a good portion of the money going to California.
But since Silicon Valley is comprised of numerous cities (21 individual cities that are in or associated with being in The Valley) and therefore has an unfair advantage (sarcasm), we wanted to see which individual city saw the most venture capital activity in Q2 2009.
On both a deals and dollars of investment basis, New York emerged victorious followed closely by Seattle and San Francisco on the deals count and Palo Alto and Seattle from a dollars of investment perspective.
The “league tables” are below for those interested in seeing the top 15 cities on both a number of deals and dollars of investment basis. Add up the Silicon Valley cities and quickly, the dominance of the region becomes obvious. We’ll continue to look at the geographic mix over time.
July 16th, 2009 at
[...] with Massachusetts, Washington, New York and Colorado rounding out the top five. (related posts: Top Cities for Venture Capital in Q2 ‘09 | 15 States that Saw No Venture Capital Activity in Q2 [...]
July 17th, 2009 at
[...] with Massachusetts, Washington, New York and Colorado rounding out the top five. (related posts: Top Cities for Venture Capital in Q2 ‘09 | 15 States that Saw No Venture Capital Activity in Q2 [...]
July 21st, 2009 at
[...] stage investment especially in internet was quite healthy and noted the geographies, specifically cities, where the most venture capital deals and dollars flowed. We also showed data that dispelled the notion that emerged from the Q1 numbers that venture [...]
August 31st, 2009 at
[...] our Q2 2009 venture capital funding recap, we noted the top cities receiving venture investing in the quarter were Seattle and New York City. We subsequently took a look at the NYC venture investor landscape after looking into the [...]
March 19th, 2010 at
[...] Originally Posted by lmkcin ehh, ‘cept Boston is 2nd to New York. Boston Private Equity This is probably why Boston is so high on the list. Top Cities for Venture Capital in Q2
March 19th, 2010 at
[...] Posted by PDX_LAX Top Cities for Venture Capital in Q2
June 20th, 2010 at
[...] then sure. Why aren’t you citing data? Austin gets around 1/4 the deals the hot-beds get: Top Cities for Venture Capital in Q2 ‘09 - New York and Seattle | The ChubbyBrain Blog And if you look at dollar-amount it does even worse. No other Texan city shows up. [...]