About Us

our mission

We want to enable local startup communities to collect, curate and display their city's data anyway they want.


Startup community builders are amazing people. They're selfless. They care deeply about growing and strengthening their city's ecosystem. They inspire, organize, educate, mentor, connect...whatever it takes to support their community.


We want to help them to do what they do best by giving them a tool to collect and gather their city's data and present it anyway they want - whether that's on Startup Genome's city pages, embedding it on other websites, or by using our free API to pull data into their local projects.


We're also working hard to create visualizations and reports to give researchers (or anyone) a window into how their community is structured and ways it can be improved.


See our vision and roadmap.

who we are

Startup Genome city data is owned and curated by a network of amazing community builders who love their cities. Meet them all here.


Dave Lerner, Shane Reiser and Stefan Negritoiu put this thing together.

who this is for

  • community builders focused on growing and connecting their local startup community.
  • 1st time entrepreneurs trying to get plugged in to their city's startup scene.
  • startups and investors trying to find talent, partners and each other.
  • economic researchers looking to better understand their city's entrepreneurial climate.

our metrics

So far, we've collected

  • 26,018 founders
  • 83,291 startups
  • 5,777 investors
  • 18,297 deals

in

  • 5,489 cities
  • 144 countries

thanks to

  • 276 local curators


Download a full copy of our startup and investor database - (Updated 04/26/2013) »