Monday, July 15, 2013

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue Ranks Among Top Metros for VC Per Capita

A new study of the number of venture capital deals per-capita has found that the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metro area is among the top ten markets in the country for venture capital deals. The new report from The Atlantic, found that Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue had 3.3 venture capital deals per 100,000 people, and $25.8M invested per 100,000 people, giving it the number ten rank in terms of venture capital activity per 100,000 people. Seattle ranked highly, but was still beat out by markets such as San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara (1), San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont (2), Boulder, Colorado (3), and Boston-Cambrige, Quincy (4).