Research: in 2018, startups in the SF Bay Area raised $22.4B across 87 $100M+ funding rounds; startups in the rest of US raised $24.9B across 103 $100M+ rounds (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)

Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News:
Research: in 2018, startups in the SF Bay Area raised $22.4B across 87 $100M+ funding rounds; startups in the rest of US raised $24.9B across 103 $100M+ rounds  —  The San Francisco Bay Area 1 may be best understood as one giant reality distortion field.  People live on top of earthquake faults.