Ayni — Startups per Capita (By Metro)

Startups per Capita — By Metro

Operating companies per 100,000 residents. Counts by category (primary_type_id = 1); excludes only acquired/merged/defunct companies, not unset status -- most companies in the graph have never had a status backfilled, so treating unset as inactive undercounted real companies (operator decision 2026-07-29). Matches oluwadi's own Operating Companies count exactly.

42 metros with population data · 1220 startups counted

#	Metro	Startups	Population	Per 100,000 Residents
1	Pittsburgh	260	2,443,921	10.64
2	Portland — the Silicon Forest	236	2,510,529	9.40
3	Boulder	11	328,317	3.35
4	Walla Walla	2	62,102	3.22
5	Youngstown	13	428,430	3.03
6	the Research Triangle	64	2,287,314	2.80
7	Spokane	13	591,793	2.20
8	Greater Atlanta	132	6,176,937	2.14
9	New Orleans	19	988,763	1.92
10	the DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia)	87	6,263,796	1.39
11	Baton Rouge	10	871,379	1.15
12	Bozeman & Greater Yellowstone	6	529,288	1.13
13	Greater Cleveland	20	2,171,978	0.92
14	Las Vegas	19	2,293,764	0.83
15	Idaho (Boise)	15	1,893,296	0.79
16	Greater Columbus	17	2,151,847	0.79
17	the Twin Cities	27	3,693,351	0.73
18	Greater St. Louis	19	2,809,414	0.68
19	Richland	2	307,900	0.65
20	Detroit	23	4,367,620	0.53
21	Northwest Arkansas	3	563,436	0.53
22	Silicon Valley	46	9,101,124	0.51
23	Denver	14	2,977,085	0.47
24	Seattle	19	4,021,467	0.47
25	Upstate New York	26	7,008,487	0.37
26	Austin	7	2,357,497	0.30
27	Houston	17	7,274,714	0.23
28	Monterey	1	435,834	0.23
29	Dallas	11	5,252,554	0.21
30	Philadelphia	13	6,241,882	0.21
31	New England	10	4,917,661	0.20
32	Greater San Diego	5	3,282,782	0.15
33	New York City	26	19,756,722	0.13
34	Greater Chicago	10	9,359,555	0.11
35	Fort Worth	2	2,555,001	0.08
36	Greater Orlando	2	2,721,022	0.07
37	Tampa Bay	2	3,240,469	0.06
38	Greater Los Angeles	7	13,012,469	0.05
39	Greater Miami / South Florida	3	6,138,876	0.05
40	Nashville	1	2,043,713	0.05
41	Greater San Antonio	0	2,612,802	0.00
42	the Sun Belt — Arizona	0	7,268,175	0.00

Not shown above — no population figure currently on file for these metros: Phoenix / Scottsdale (137 startups), Charlottesville (55 startups), Salt Lake / Provo (20 startups), Puerto Rico (10 startups), Bellingham (2 startups), Greater Sacramento (1 startup), Toronto (1 startup), Provo (1 startup), Vancouver (1 startup), Bend (1 startup), DC (1 startup), Northeast (1 startup), Fairfield County (1 startup), Detroit (1 startup), Missoula (1 startup), Tokyo (1 startup), Knoxville (1 startup). Some of these are real US metros without an Osparna edition yet, or explicitly non-US/regional labels — see the Data page for source coverage.