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==Data Set(s)==
 
==Data Set(s)==
  
Updates to the data were done for 2017 and Q1/2 of 2018, and the list was expanded beyond the top 100 cities to include all U.S. cities that have received venture capital from 1980 to present. State rankings were likewise added. The results are available as tab delimited text files. When using this data, please reference them as follows:
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===Current datasets===
*[http://www.edegan.com/Ranking2016WMove.txt 2016 U.S. Cities]: Egan, Edward J. (2018), "2016 U.S. Startup City Rankings", Available from www.edegan.com/wiki/US_Startup_City_Ranking
 
*[http://www.edegan.com/Ranking2017WMove.txt 2017 U.S. Cities]: Egan, Edward J. (2018), "2017 U.S. Startup City Rankings", Available from www.edegan.com/wiki/US_Startup_City_Ranking
 
*[http://www.edegan.com/Ranking2018Q12WMove.txt 2018 Q1&2 U.S. Cities]: Egan, Edward J. (2018), "2018 Q1&2 U.S. Startup City Rankings", Available from www.edegan.com/wiki/US_Startup_City_Ranking
 
*[http://www.edegan.com/Ranking2016WMoveState.txt 2016 U.S. States]: Egan, Edward J. (2018), "2016 U.S. Startup State Rankings", Available from www.edegan.com/wiki/US_Startup_City_Ranking
 
*[http://www.edegan.com/Ranking2017WMoveState.txt 2017 U.S. States]: Egan, Edward J. (2018), "2017 U.S. Startup State Rankings", Available from www.edegan.com/wiki/US_Startup_City_Ranking
 
*[http://www.edegan.com/Ranking2018Q12WMoveState.txt 2018 Q1&2 U.S. States]: Egan, Edward J. (2018), "2018 Q1&2 U.S. Startup State Rankings", Available from www.edegan.com/wiki/US_Startup_City_Ranking
 
  
==2016 Top 20==
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For 2020:
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*[http://www.edegan.com/PlaceYearRankingTop200-2020.txt Top 200 U.S. Startup Cities 2020]
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*[http://www.edegan.com/StateYearRanking-2020.txt U.S. Startup States 2020]
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All years (1980-2020) in a single file:
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*[http://www.edegan.com/PlaceYearRankingTop200-1980to2020.txt Top 200 U.S. Startup Cities 1980-2020]
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*[http://www.edegan.com/StateYearRanking-1980to2020.txt U.S. Startup States 1980-2020]
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These datasets were built using Version 3 of the ranking code. See [[Ranking US Cities by Venture Capital]].
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===Previous Releases===
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Updates to the data were done for 2017 and Q1/2 of 2018, and the list was expanded beyond the top 100 cities to include all U.S. cities that have received venture capital from 1980 to the draw date. State rankings were likewise added. When using this data, please reference them as:
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Egan, Edward J. (YYYYQX), "YYYY U.S. Startup City Rankings", Available from www.edegan.com/wiki/US_Startup_City_Ranking
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Or:
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Egan, Edward J. (YYYYQX), "YYYY U.S. Startup State Rankings", Available from www.edegan.com/wiki/US_Startup_City_Ranking
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Substituting YYYY for the year and QX for the quarter.
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The results are available as tab-delimited text files:
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*[http://www.edegan.com/Ranking2016WMove.txt 2016 U.S. Cities]
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*[http://www.edegan.com/Ranking2017WMove.txt 2017 U.S. Cities]
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*[http://www.edegan.com/Ranking2018Q12WMove.txt 2018 Q1&2 U.S. Cities]
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*[http://www.edegan.com/Ranking2016WMoveState.txt 2016 U.S. States]
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*[http://www.edegan.com/Ranking2017WMoveState.txt 2017 U.S. States]
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*[http://www.edegan.com/Ranking2018Q12WMoveState.txt 2018 Q1&2 U.S. States]
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===2016 Top 20===
  
 
The Top 20 cities for 2016 were as follows:
 
The Top 20 cities for 2016 were as follows:
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==Methodology==
 
==Methodology==
  
These reports use data from Thomson–Reuters VentureXpert to examine growth venture capital (VC) investment in the United States for each year (or part of a year) and generate a ranking for U.S. startup cities. The overall ranking is based on equally weighting cities’ ranks for growth venture capital invested, the number of new growth venture capital deals (i.e., first growth VC investments into a startups), and the number of active growth VC-backed startups.
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These reports use data from Thomson–Reuters VentureXpert to examine growth venture capital (VC) investment in the United States for each year (or part of a year) and generate a ranking for U.S. startup cities. The overall ranking is based on equally weighting cities’ ranks for there measures:
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#Growth venture capital dollars invested,
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#The number of new growth venture capital deals (i.e., first growth VC investments into startups),
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#The number of startups actively funded with growth venture capital (see below).
  
The difference between growth and transactional VC is described in  [https://www.bakerinstitute.org/media/files/files/52cdbe0c/bi-brief-030518-mcnair-growthtransvc.pdf Egan and Carranza (2018)]. Essentiually, growth VC is seed, early or later stage investments in predominantly high-growth high-tech startups.  
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The difference between growth and transactional VC is described in  [https://www.bakerinstitute.org/media/files/files/52cdbe0c/bi-brief-030518-mcnair-growthtransvc.pdf Egan and Carranza (2018)]. Essentially, growth VC is seed, early, or later-stage investments into nascent, privately-held, predominantly high-growth high-tech startups.  
  
We follow the academic convention and define a firm as an active recipient of venture capital if not more than 5 years have elapsed since the last round of investment and the firm has not experienced an IPO or an acquisition. This definition overstates reality -- perhaps as many as half of all "active" firms will be either dead or living-dead in a given municipality.
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We follow the academic convention and define a firm as an active recipient of venture capital if not more than five years have elapsed since the last round of investment and the firm has not experienced an IPO or an acquisition. This definition overstates reality -- perhaps as many as half of all "active" firms will be either dead or living-dead in a given municipality.
  
Users with internal access can see the project page [[Ranking US Cities by Venture Capital]].
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A full description of the data processing is available on the [[Ranking US Cities by Venture Capital]] project page.
  
==Outside References==
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==References==
  
 
Egan, Edward J. and Diana Carranza. 2018. "Growth vs. Transactional Venture Capital in Houston, Texas." Issue brief no. 03.05.18. Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, Houston, Texas. https://www.bakerinstitute.org/media/files/files/52cdbe0c/bi-brief-030518-mcnair-growthtransvc.pdf
 
Egan, Edward J. and Diana Carranza. 2018. "Growth vs. Transactional Venture Capital in Houston, Texas." Issue brief no. 03.05.18. Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, Houston, Texas. https://www.bakerinstitute.org/media/files/files/52cdbe0c/bi-brief-030518-mcnair-growthtransvc.pdf
  
 
Egan, Edward J., Anne Dayton,  and Diana Carranza. 2017. "The Top 100 U.S. Startup Cities in 2016". Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, Houston, Texas. https://www.bakerinstitute.org/media/files/files/38132e23/mcnair-pub-rankinguscities-122117.pdf
 
Egan, Edward J., Anne Dayton,  and Diana Carranza. 2017. "The Top 100 U.S. Startup Cities in 2016". Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, Houston, Texas. https://www.bakerinstitute.org/media/files/files/38132e23/mcnair-pub-rankinguscities-122117.pdf

Revision as of 12:15, 7 March 2021

Report(s)

The original 2016 report was published as Egan, Dayton and Carranza (2017) and is available as a pdf from Rice University's Baker Institute. It also also available from www.edegan.com.

Data Set(s)

Current datasets

For 2020:

All years (1980-2020) in a single file:

These datasets were built using Version 3 of the ranking code. See Ranking US Cities by Venture Capital.

Previous Releases

Updates to the data were done for 2017 and Q1/2 of 2018, and the list was expanded beyond the top 100 cities to include all U.S. cities that have received venture capital from 1980 to the draw date. State rankings were likewise added. When using this data, please reference them as:

Egan, Edward J. (YYYYQX), "YYYY U.S. Startup City Rankings", Available from www.edegan.com/wiki/US_Startup_City_Ranking

Or:

Egan, Edward J. (YYYYQX), "YYYY U.S. Startup State Rankings", Available from www.edegan.com/wiki/US_Startup_City_Ranking

Substituting YYYY for the year and QX for the quarter.

The results are available as tab-delimited text files:

2016 Top 20

The Top 20 cities for 2016 were as follows:

Top20-2016.jpg

Methodology

These reports use data from Thomson–Reuters VentureXpert to examine growth venture capital (VC) investment in the United States for each year (or part of a year) and generate a ranking for U.S. startup cities. The overall ranking is based on equally weighting cities’ ranks for there measures:

  1. Growth venture capital dollars invested,
  2. The number of new growth venture capital deals (i.e., first growth VC investments into startups),
  3. The number of startups actively funded with growth venture capital (see below).

The difference between growth and transactional VC is described in Egan and Carranza (2018). Essentially, growth VC is seed, early, or later-stage investments into nascent, privately-held, predominantly high-growth high-tech startups.

We follow the academic convention and define a firm as an active recipient of venture capital if not more than five years have elapsed since the last round of investment and the firm has not experienced an IPO or an acquisition. This definition overstates reality -- perhaps as many as half of all "active" firms will be either dead or living-dead in a given municipality.

A full description of the data processing is available on the Ranking US Cities by Venture Capital project page.

References

Egan, Edward J. and Diana Carranza. 2018. "Growth vs. Transactional Venture Capital in Houston, Texas." Issue brief no. 03.05.18. Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, Houston, Texas. https://www.bakerinstitute.org/media/files/files/52cdbe0c/bi-brief-030518-mcnair-growthtransvc.pdf

Egan, Edward J., Anne Dayton, and Diana Carranza. 2017. "The Top 100 U.S. Startup Cities in 2016". Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, Houston, Texas. https://www.bakerinstitute.org/media/files/files/38132e23/mcnair-pub-rankinguscities-122117.pdf