SF = quantity and quality -> 10x Berlin
The StartupBlink report “Global Startup Ecosystem Rankings 2021,” ranked ecosystems of 1,000 cities and one hundred countries. They refrained from using subjective tools such as surveys and interviews, and instead utilized data either accumulated directly from the StartupBlink map or arrived from their data partners such as CbInsingts, TechCrunch, etc. Using artificial intelligence and algorithms, a final total score was generated to represent the innovation output and the startups they generate, in terms of quantity and quality. It found that San Francisco and Silicon Valley outperforms the rest of the world in terms of both the number of startups and innovations. San Francisco Bay (Silicon Valley) was ranked first with a total score of 328,966. New York was second (110,777), followed by Beijing (66,749), Los Angeles (58,441), London (56,913), and Boston (49.835). Tel Aviv ranked eighth, Paris eleventh, and Berlin thirteenth, out of thousands of cities. While this is just one study with a specific algorithm, it nevertheless shows how advanced the region is.
Global Startup Ecosystem Index. Tel Aviv: StartupBlink, 2021.
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