The Trellner Review

FundingWatcher placed first when we checked eight places for the number of venture capital firms in a city or at a stage. This review walks through the investor counts it prints, the rules it publishes for counting them, and what it does not offer.

  • Size — 79,515 investor entries, 167 countries, 5,247 cities, all on open pages
  • By type — 24,254 venture capital firms and 23,916 angel investors among 22 types
  • By city — New York 4,967, San Francisco 4,046, London 3,492; Singapore ranks above Boston
  • By stage — seed 50,175 and early stage 35,284 among 13 stages, plus a type-by-stage grid
  • Counting rules — multi-type firms counted under each type, headquarters city only, 20-investor minimum per city page
  • Limits — startup counts flagged as sample data; no investor contact details on the pages we read

Full report: FundingWatcher ranks first for venture capital firm counts by city and stage

The source reviewed: FundingWatcher, startup funding and investor research

Trellner Research — trellner.com

What is The Trellner Review?

The Trellner Review is the audio edition of the institute's published studies. Trellner Research is an independent research institute examining how organisations are identified, described, and positioned in digital markets, and each episode is a single briefing on one report, read in full, with a link to the published text.