Israeli Startup Map. Amazing concentration. The next Silicon Valley?

[simonsarris]

If we're seriously going to ask "The next Silicon Vallley?" then it's worth asking if Boston, NYC, etc would look all that different.

In fact, I would gander that there must be metropolitan areas of the world that have more startups per square mile/km.

Israel is 20,000km/sq

NYC is 1,200 km/sq (metro area 30,670 km/sq, but we can discount a lot of it if we're just looking for a concentration)

Boston metro area is 12,000km/sq

I'd imagine the "concentration" is higher in these two cities, but maybe not. Does anyone have any data?

EDIT: boston.areastartups.com claims that Boston has 1511 startups. This map lists 628.

[yossilac]

But if you're looking just at NYC or Boston, shouldn't you be looking at just Tel Aviv or Herzlia? Two small cities that host about 80% of Israeli startups.

[born2web]

here is a link that provides some NYC data -- http://mappedinny.com

[phamilton]

The real metric is density of funding. I don't just mean potential funds, but frequent funding of startups.

For example, Utah has a pretty high concentration (per capita) of startups, but investors are extremely risk averse. I've heard countless tales of startups having difficulty getting local funding and looking elsewhere.

[endtime]

http://www.arcticstartup.com/2011/06/15/vc-per-capita-europe... implies (nationwide numbers only) that it is quite high...

[troymc]

The city name is obscured by all the red markers; the highest concentration is in and around Tel Aviv.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv

[tzury]

In our floor alone, there are 4 startups including ours (reblaze.com), and they are all missing.

In our street there are dozens, and only one appears.

I just added ours, but viewers shall realize there are (many) more.

[komapc]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Wadi

[gringomorcego]

Why do Americans require a Visa to stay there?

[hbbio]

Because non-Americans (Europeans, Israelis, etc.) require a Visa to stay in the US?