Do you wonder where startups trend? closed after a 6 month run from June 2021 to January 2022. On Valentine’s Day, and we if anyone would like to use it (still cleaning up and better organizing some of the data, thanks for the patience! I wanted to share some early learnings). Startup of the Year Voting the startup of the year winners were announced open sourced this startup voting data All of the startup winners earned Essentially, the community voted on which startups deserve more coverage. These pages include business overviews (such as head count, founding year, bio, social links, and domain ranking) coupled with dynamic updates every time the company is mentioned in HackerNoon stories or relevant headlines around the web. tech company news pages on HackerNoon. By digging into the aggregate vote count each city’s startups earned, we can approximate the HackerNoon community’s interest for startups in all the major cities of the world. Most voted on Startup City Award (Rank By Votes, Name, Population, Votes) RANK NAME POPULATION VOTES 1 Boulder 124345 14564 2 Singapore 4608167 12889 3 New York City 18713220 10507 4 San Francisco 744041 8064 5 Miami 6445545 7953 6 Redwood City 86380 7894 7 Porto 263131 4714 8 City Of London 7512400 3776 9 Los Angeles 3849378 3566 10 Tel Aviv 460613 3358 11 Zug 30934 3358 12 Beiru 1792000 2406 13 Santiago 5477804 2331 14 Vilnius 553038 1961 15 Bucarest 1,883,425 1798 16 Boston 559034 1555 17 Copenhagen 501158 1461 18 Kyiv 2,962,180 1450 19 Chicago 2833321 1279 20 Lisbon 1962000 1189 21 Louisville 1005654 1154 22 Berlin 3387800 1150 23 Tallinn 391000 1127 24 Norwich 121553 1124 25 Alexandria 159,467 1103 26 Stockholm 761721 1086 27 Sydney 4119190 1033 28 Hyderabad 6,900,00 1014 29 Las Vegas 552539 928 30 Murcia 422861 911 31 Johannesburg 3225796 900 32 Denver 566974 868 33 Hanoi 3977000 757 34 Brussels 964405 700 35 São Paulo 10886518 573 36 Oakland 433031 566 37 Sofia 1076000 564 38 Amsterdam 739300 562 39 San Luis Obispo 62290 552 40 Los Altos 30089 537 41 Cape Town 2967000 527 42 Mahé 77000 515 43 Lahore 5063499 510 44 Indianapolis 795484 495 45 Arlington 398854 471 46 Melbourne 3592591 452 47 Berkeley 121363 451 48 Kansas City 1636715 445 49 Tallinna 444,532 438 50 Austin 709893 428 51 Lusaka 1246000 422 52 Portland 537081 411 53 Grand Cayman 71100 404 54 South San Francisco 67789 404 55 Scottsdale 258069 403 56 Seoul 9714000 377 57 Riyadh 5126000 372 58 Dnipropetrovsk 1040000 360 59 Mexico City 14007495 350 60 Venice 268934 344 61 Lublin 357200 343 62 Bangalore 5686844 343 63 Pune 3755525 341 64 Ankara 3023000 338 65 San Mateo 104430 320 66 Jaipur 2324319 316 67 Seattle 582454 314 68 San Diego 1256951 313 69 Monterrey 1140639 312 70 Tampa 2908063 309 71 Baltimore 635815 301 72 Lucknow 2266933 289 73 Central 175500 287 74 Brooklyn 2559903 263 75 Minsk 1705000 258 76 Aalborg 142937 256 77 Tel Aviv-yafo 368635 254 78 Gliwice 199900 253 79 Antwerp 466203 225 80 Almaty 1209000 225 81 Munich 1249200 204 82 Kuala Lumpur 1352000 199 83 Belo Horizonte 2412937 195 84 Dublin 506211 194 85 San Jose 929936 185 86 Haifa 269417 183 87 Brisbane 1763131 183 88 Noida 642381 181 89 Lewes 29187 177 90 Palo Alto 65364 177 91 Hermosillo 687968 175 92 Zürich 347517 170 93 Flemington 4577 167 94 Columbus 733203 167 95 Torino 852223 165 96 New Orleans 1020886 164 97 Sheung Wan 14981 164 98 Atlanta 498715 162 99 Heraklion 211370 160 100 Dover 104490 157 Some notable trending startup locations relative to population IMHO this data indicates locations that have historically have been more welcoming to startups through various business and tax incentives, such as (13th), (44th) and (55th), are all rewarded with worldwide interest in their startups that far exceeds their local populations. Zug Mahé Grand Caymen Surprisingly, (7894 votes) received 44X the amount of votes as (177 votes), which historically has been more of a glorified startup scene. Also I’m not sure why, but am impressed than is also hanging with in the top ten as cities whose startup interest drastically out paces their population. Redwood City Palo Alto Porto San Francisco rising all the way to #1 could be a product of HackerNoon’s HQ being based in Colorado, but Boulder is nowhere near a top ten city in terms of historical readership to HackerNoon. It certainly was an overall interest in the Boulder startup scene as opposed to a single startup or two driving the activity as first, second and third place were all within a close margin (567, 527 and 520 votes respectively). Boulder I’m looking into more! this data Will be . posting what I learn here on HackerNoon