Analyzing US Startup Investment by County

Analyzing US Startup Investment by County

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Peter Walker

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January 30, 2023

A new county-level view of Carta startup investment data enables more precise geographic analysis—with questions about which industries cluster in which...

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US venture capital by county - what would you want to know?

Love getting access to a whole new layer of analysis. Spent some nerd time this weekend aggregating our Carta city data into county abstractions.

So now we get to do all sorts of fun breakouts! What are the top counties by VC capital invested? Which industries cluster in which areas? Which localities are making the biggest jumps year over year?

This first map shows relative capital invested by white bubbles, with the underlying population density of each county in black/orange (the more orange, the more people).

𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻: What would you want to know from our dataset at this more local level? Taking all suggestions in the comments below.

#cartadata #vc #startups #geoanalysis

Peter Walker
Author: Peter Walker
Peter Walker runs the Insights team at Carta, focused on discovering key data and narratives across the private capital ecosystem. In a former life, he was a marketing executive for a media analytics startup and led the data visualization team at the Covid Tracking Project.

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