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==ReportsReport(s)==

Publicly-available reports include:*[https://www.edegan.com/journal/u-s-startup-cities-ranking-2020/ The Top 200 U.S. Startup Cities for 2020]*[https://www.edegan.com/journal/ranking-startup-activity/ Ranking Startup Activity in Cities]*The original 2016 report was published as Egan, Dayton and Carranza (2017) and is available as a [https://www.bakerinstitute.org/media/files/files/38132e23/mcnair-pub-rankinguscities-122117.pdf pdf from Rice University's Baker Institute]. It is also [http://www.edegan.com/mcnair-pub-rankinguscities-122117.pdf available from www.edegan.com].

Updates to the data were done for 2017 and Q1/2 of 2018 are available as spreadsheets. When using this data, please reference them as follows:*[http://www.edegan.com/Top_100_Cities_2017.xlsx Egan, Edward J. ==Data Set(2018s), "2017 U.S. Startup City Rankings", Available from www.edegan.com]*Egan, Edward J. (2018), "2018 Q1&2 U.S. Startup City Rankings", Available from www.edegan.com ==

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_RankingOr: Egan, Edward J. (YYYYQX), "YYYY U.S. Startup State Rankings", Available from www.edegan.com/wiki/US_Startup_City_RankingSubstituting YYYY for the year and QX for the quarter. All datasets are available as tab-delimited text files, with UTF-8 encoding, header lines, and PC/UNIX line-endings.  ===Current datasets=== For 2020:*[http://www.edegan.com/PlaceYearRankingTop200-2020.txt Top 200 U.S. Startup Cities 2020]*[http://www.edegan.com/StateYearRanking-2020.txt U.S. Startup States 2020] All years (1980-2020) in a single file:*[http://www.edegan.com/PlaceYearRankingTop200-1980to2020.txt Top 200 U.S. Startup Cities 1980-2020]*[http://www.edegan.com/StateYearRanking-1980to2020.txt U.S. Startup States 1980-2020] These datasets were produced using the third rebuild of the ranking code. See [[Ranking US Cities by Venture Capital]]. ===Previous Releases=== In the second rebuild of the ranking code, 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.  The following files are available:*[http://www.edegan.com/Ranking2016WMove.txt 2016 U.S. Cities]*[http://www.edegan.com/Ranking2017WMove.txt 2017 U.S. Cities]*[http://www.edegan.com/Ranking2018Q12WMove.txt 2018 Q1&2 U.S. Cities]*[http://www.edegan.com/Ranking2016WMoveState.txt 2016 U.S. States]*[http://www.edegan.com/Ranking2017WMoveState.txt 2017 U.S. States]*[http://www.edegan.com/Ranking2018Q12WMoveState.txt 2018 Q1&2 U.S. States] ===2016 Top 20===

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 there measures:#Growth venture capital dollars invested, the #The number of new growth venture capital deals(i.e., first growth VC investments into startups), and the #The number of active startups actively funded with growth venture capital (see below). The difference between growth and transactional VCis 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-backed startuptech startups.

The difference between growth We follow the academic convention and transactional VC is described in [https://www.bakerinstitutedefine 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.org/media/files/files/52cdbe0c/biThis definition overstates reality -brief-030518perhaps as many as half of all "active" firms will be either dead or living-mcnair-growthtransvcdead in a given municipality.pdf Egan and Carranza (2018)]

Users with internal access can see A full description of the data processing is available on the project page [[Ranking US Cities by Venture Capital]]project page.

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 pdf] Egan, Edward J., Anne Dayton, and Diana Carranza. 2017. "The Top 100 U.S. Startup Cities in 2016". ice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, Houston, Texas. [https://www.bakerinstitute.org/media/files/files/38132e23/mcnair-pub-rankinguscities-122117.pdf pdf] Egan, Edward J. (2018), "2017 U.S. Startup City Rankings", Available from www.edegan.com

Egan, Edward J. (2018), Anne Dayton, and Diana Carranza. 2017. "2018 Q1&2 The Top 100 U.S. Startup City RankingsCities in 2016". Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, Available from Houston, Texas. https://www.edeganbakerinstitute.org/media/files/files/38132e23/mcnair-pub-rankinguscities-122117.compdf