# Where Startups in North America Are Based: 2026 Map of 45,068 Companies

> Map of where 45,068 funded startups in North America are based, city by city: San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles lead. $2.5T raised between them.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/geo-maps/where-north-america-startups-are-based (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

Each circle is a city, sized by how many startups are based there. Countries are shaded by their count.

## Leading cities

- San Francisco 4,249 $450B
- New York 3,728 $161B
- Los Angeles 971 $38B
- Boston 828 $38B
- Austin 820 $31B
- Seattle 657 $18B
- Toronto 622 $27B
- Chicago 617 $21B
- Palo Alto 522 $36B
- San Diego 485 $28B
- Cambridge, United States 456 $32B
- San Jose 369 $23B
- Vancouver, Canada 358 $6.6B
- Mountain View 351 $44B
- Miami 341 $11B

## By country

- United States 42,120 $2.5T
- Canada 2,948 $79B

## Best-funded

- [**OpenAI** United States · $230B](https://millionrounds.com/company/openai)
- [**Anthropic** United States · $134B](https://millionrounds.com/company/anthropic)
- [**xAI** United States · $81B](https://millionrounds.com/company/xai)
- [**SpaceX** United States · $42B](https://millionrounds.com/company/spacex)
- [**Databricks** United States · $34B](https://millionrounds.com/company/databricks)
- [**Waymo** United States · $27B](https://millionrounds.com/company/waymo)
- [**Scale AI** United States · $15B](https://millionrounds.com/company/scale-ai)
- [*C* **CoreWeave** United States · $15B](https://millionrounds.com/company/coreweave)
- [**Crusoe Energy Systems** United States · $12B](https://millionrounds.com/company/crusoe-energy-systems)
- [**Sumisho Air Lease** United States · $12B](https://millionrounds.com/company/sumisho-air-lease)
- [**Aligned Data Centers** United States · $12B](https://millionrounds.com/company/aligned-data-centers)
- [**Prometheus** United States · $12B](https://millionrounds.com/company/prometheus)

**How this map is made.** Every startup here has raised money in rounds we track. Each is placed at the city we hold for it, matched to that city's position in GeoNames (cities of 15,000 people or more; geonames.org, CC BY 4.0); startups without a city on record count in the totals but not on the map. Rebuilt nightly; updated 15 November 2026.

## More geo maps

[All geo maps](https://millionrounds.com/geo-maps)

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