Best startup cities by country in 2027
Our ranking covers startup cities in 139 countries. Countries with three or more ranked cities have their own page; for the others, the cities are listed here.
North America
United States 263 cities
San Francisco Bay #1 · New York #2 · Los Angeles Area #4 · Boston Area #6 · Seattle #12 · Chicago #17 · Austin #18 · Washington DC Area #19 · San Diego #22 · Dallas-Fort Worth #27 · Atlanta #28 · Denver #30 · all 263
Canada 27 cities
Toronto #26 · Vancouver #42 · Montreal #46 · Ottawa #89 · Kitchener Waterloo #101 · Calgary #116 · Quebec City #125 · Edmonton #126 · Halifax #234 · Winnipeg #262 · Hamilton #322 · Kelowna #327 · all 27
Puerto Rico 1 city
San Juan #347
Latin America and the Caribbean
Brazil 31 cities
Sao Paulo #20 · Curitiba #144 · Rio de Janeiro #148 · Belo Horizonte #154 · Porto Alegre #188 · Florianopolis #270 · Brasilia #339 · Campinas #377 · Joinville #426 · Fortaleza #444 · Recife #461 · Ribeirao Preto #473 · all 31
Mexico 17 cities
Mexico City #50 · Monterrey #149 · Guadalajara #156 · Puebla #429 · Zapopan #463 · Chihuahua #532 · San Luis Potosi #555 · Cancun #654 · Hermosillo #682 · Santiago de Queretaro #811 · Leon #815 · Tijuana #818 · all 17
Chile 4 cities
Santiago #70 · Viña del Mar #687 · Valparaiso #743 · Concepcion #913
Colombia 4 cities
Bogota #77 · Medellin #183 · Cali #298 · Barranquilla #836
Peru 1 city
Lima #138
Uruguay 1 city
Montevideo #165
Costa Rica 1 city
San José #333
Venezuela 1 city
Caracas #527
Dominican Republic 1 city
Santo Domingo #580
Paraguay 1 city
Asuncion #608
Guatemala 1 city
Guatemala City #621
Jamaica 2 cities
Kingston #685 · Montego Bay #958
El Salvador 1 city
San Salvador #800
Nicaragua 1 city
Managua #962
Honduras 1 city
San Pedro Sula #972
Belize 1 city
Belize City #976
Bolivia 1 city
Cochabamba #980
Haiti 1 city
Port-au-Prince #989
Barbados 1 city
Bridgetown #994
Europe
Russia 16 cities
Moscow #9 · Saint Petersburg #199 · Novosibirsk #400 · Kazan #428 · Kaliningrad #610 · Chelyabinsk #637 · Tomsk #677 · Yekaterinburg #680 · Samara #730 · Rostov on Don #803 · Ulyanovsk #809 · Perm #838 · all 16
France 24 cities
Paris #11 · Toulouse #132 · Marseille #163 · Lyon #164 · Bordeaux #215 · Nantes #232 · Lille #233 · Rennes #243 · Nice #244 · Grenoble #247 · Montpellier #266 · Strasbourg #361 · all 24
Germany 41 cities
Berlin #13 · Munich #38 · Hamburg #64 · Frankfurt #97 · Stuttgart #108 · Cologne #127 · Rhine-Neckar Area #130 · Bonn #161 · Leipzig #167 · Mainz #181 · Dusseldorf #194 · Karlsruhe #241 · all 41
Sweden 10 cities
Stockholm #24 · Malmö #137 · Gothenburg #171 · Lund #318 · Uppsala #416 · Linkoping #505 · Vasteras #542 · Helsingborg #572 · Jonkoping #676 · Halmstad #770
The Netherlands 22 cities
Amsterdam #29 · The Hague #123 · Utrecht #131 · Eindhoven #157 · Rotterdam #172 · Maastricht #350 · Groningen #395 · Enschede #404 · Nijmegen #433 · Arnhem #559 · Breda #584 · Haarlem #632 · all 22
Spain 28 cities
Barcelona #37 · Madrid #45 · Valencia #146 · Bilbao #217 · Las Palmas de Gran Canaria #225 · Santa Cruz de Tenerife #245 · Malaga #293 · Seville #299 · Zaragoza #431 · Palma de Mallorca #530 · Murcia #548 · Donostia-San Sebastian #607 · all 28
Finland 6 cities
Helsinki #44 · Tampere #326 · Oulu #332 · Turku #380 · Jyvaskyla #672 · Joensuu #716
Ireland 6 cities
Dublin #51 · Cork #314 · Galway #319 · Limerick #531 · Waterford #845 · Dundalk #915
Italy 33 cities
Milan #56 · Rome #140 · Turin #231 · Florence #258 · Bologna #292 · Venice #387 · Catania #403 · Naples #446 · Trento #458 · Cagliari #499 · Genoa #511 · Treviso #569 · all 33
Switzerland 14 cities
Zurich #57 · Basel #93 · Lausanne #96 · Geneva #118 · Zug #166 · Sankt Gallen #204 · Bern #224 · Lucerne #366 · Lugano #425 · Neuchatel #573 · Yverdon-les-Bains #592 · Sursee #753 · all 14
Denmark 7 cities
Copenhagen #61 · Aarhus #228 · Odense #354 · Aalborg #506 · Kolding #597 · Herning #881 · Hirtshals #937
Turkey 9 cities
Istanbul #69 · Ankara #210 · Izmir #384 · Antalya #649 · Bursa #799 · Gaziantep #816 · Trabzon #858 · Kayseri #945 · Eskişehir #948
Belgium 9 cities
Brussels #72 · Ghent #158 · Antwerp #237 · Leuven #311 · Liege #390 · Hasselt #543 · Waterloo #667 · Aalst #701 · Mechelen #847
United Kingdom 53 cities
Cambridge #76 · Bristol #90 · Edinburgh #102 · Birmingham #114 · Glasgow #187 · Brighton #190 · Belfast #200 · Newcastle upon Tyne #207 · Leeds #212 · Nottingham #253 · Cardiff #256 · Liverpool #271 · all 53
Poland 14 cities
Warsaw #78 · Krakow #150 · Wrocław #168 · Poznan #220 · Gdańsk #278 · Gdynia #355 · Katowice #356 · Szczecin #562 · Lublin #564 · Lodz #663 · Rzeszow #850 · Zielona Gora #859 · all 14
Austria 6 cities
Vienna #85 · Graz #202 · Linz #307 · Salzburg #408 · Innsbruck #605 · Klagenfurt am Wörthersee #700
Romania 7 cities
Bucharest #111 · Cluj-Napoca #250 · Timisoara #391 · Iași #484 · Brasov #706 · Sibiu #846 · Craiova #887
Latvia 1 city
Riga #155
Slovenia 3 cities
Ljubljana #184 · Maribor #405 · Novo mesto #839
Luxembourg 2 cities
Luxembourg City #186 · Esch an der Alzette #489
Slovakia 2 cities
Bratislava #196 · Kosice #526
Iceland 1 city
Reykjavik #221
Belarus 1 city
Minsk #230
North Macedonia 1 city
Skopje #280
Armenia 1 city
Yerevan #282
Jersey 1 city
Saint Helier #365
Malta 2 cities
Valletta #372 · San Ġiljan #924
Greece 3 cities
Thessaloniki #379 · Ioannina #902 · Rhodes #941
Georgia 1 city
Tbilisi #407
Azerbaijan 1 city
Baku #455
Liechtenstein 1 city
Vaduz #460
Albania 1 city
Tirana #488
Moldova 1 city
Chisinau #535
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 city
Sarajevo #633
Andorra 1 city
Andorra la Vella #802
Gibraltar 1 city
Gibraltar #843
Guernsey 1 city
Saint Peter Port #987
Isle of Man 1 city
Douglas #992
Middle East and North Africa
Israel 11 cities
Tel Aviv Area #8 · Jerusalem #54 · Haifa #119 · Beer Sheva #238 · Yokneam #284 · Ashdod #459 · Eilat #474 · Nazareth #508 · Caesarea #521 · Modiin-Maccabim-Reut #627 · Nahariyya #914
United Arab Emirates 3 cities
Egypt 2 cities
Cairo #180 · Alexandria #974
Saudi Arabia 4 cities
Jordan 1 city
Amman #201
Bahrain 1 city
Manama #337
Tunisia 1 city
Tunis #341
Lebanon 1 city
Beirut #352
Morocco 3 cities
Casablanca #364 · Agadir #554 · Rabat #853
Qatar 1 city
Doha #468
Kuwait 1 city
Kuwait City #480
Iran 1 city
Tehran #512
Palestine 1 city
Ramallah #965
Algeria 1 city
Algiers #984
Iraq 1 city
Baghdad #997
Yemen 1 city
Sanaa #1000
Sub-Saharan Africa
Nigeria 7 cities
Lagos #122 · Ibadan #353 · Abuja #466 · Port Harcourt #906 · Enugu #978 · Benin City #979 · Kano #981
South Africa 4 cities
Cape Town #145 · Johannesburg #152 · Pretoria #490 · Durban #568
Rwanda 1 city
Kigali #265
Ghana 1 city
Accra #281
Uganda 1 city
Kampala #369
Ethiopia 1 city
Addis Ababa #495
Ivory Coast 1 city
Abidjan #613
Cape Verde 1 city
Praia #624
Tanzania 1 city
Dar es Salaam #724
Senegal 1 city
Dakar #827
Namibia 1 city
Windhoek #856
Zambia 1 city
Lusaka #877
Seychelles 1 city
Victoria #923
Zimbabwe 1 city
Harare #934
Angola 1 city
Luanda #952
Madagascar 1 city
Antananarivo #961
Mali 1 city
Bamako #970
Botswana 1 city
Gaborone #973
Mozambique 1 city
Maputo #983
Democratic Republic of the Congo 1 city
Kinshasa #991
Benin 1 city
Cotonou #995
Burkina Faso 1 city
Ouagadougou #996
Swaziland 1 city
Mbabane #998
Guinea 1 city
Conakry #999
Asia and Oceania
China 40 cities
Beijing #3 · Shanghai #7 · Shenzhen #21 · Hong Kong #32 · Hangzhou #33 · Guangzhou #65 · Chengdu #86 · Xiamen #151 · Wuhan #174 · Nanjing #205 · Changsha #216 · Chongqing #236 · all 40
India 43 cities
Bangalore #10 · New Delhi #14 · Mumbai #16 · Pune #104 · Hyderabad #106 · Chennai #133 · Ahmedabad #176 · Jaipur #195 · Kolkata #214 · Kochi #264 · Indore #279 · Coimbatore #288 · all 43
Japan 8 cities
Tokyo #15 · Kyoto #124 · Osaka #128 · Fukuoka #240 · Nagoya #246 · Hiroshima #697 · Sapporo #768 · Tsukuba #909
Singapore 1 city
Singapore City #25
Indonesia 7 cities
Jakarta #34 · Bandung #368 · Yogyakarta #668 · Surabaya #759 · Semarang #823 · Medan #869 · Denpasar #940
Australia 12 cities
Sydney #36 · Melbourne #39 · Brisbane #112 · Perth #175 · Adelaide #198 · Sunshine Coast #249 · Canberra #269 · Gold Coast #276 · Hobart #439 · Newcastle #464 · Wollongong #520 · Darwin #744
Taiwan 6 cities
Taipei City #41 · Hsinchu #285 · Taoyuan City #510 · Tainan City #749 · Taichung City #870 · Kaohsiung City #904
Thailand 4 cities
Bangkok #71 · Chiang Mai #397 · Phuket #442 · Pattaya City #833
Malaysia 5 cities
Kuala Lumpur #80 · George Town #349 · Johor Bahru #748 · Senai #916 · Sandakan #953
Philippines 5 cities
Manila Area #87 · Cebu City #268 · Cagayan de Oro #493 · Davao City #786 · Baguio #944
New Zealand 4 cities
Auckland #105 · Wellington #283 · Christchurch #396 · Queenstown #714
Vietnam 2 cities
Ho Chi Minh City #179 · Hanoi #191
Pakistan 7 cities
Lahore #257 · Karachi #286 · Islamabad #437 · Rawalpindi #956 · Faisalabad #960 · Jhelum #988 · Multan #990
Bangladesh 3 cities
Dhaka #263 · Khulna #977 · Chattogram #993
Kazakhstan 2 cities
Nur-Sultan #357 · Almaty #623
Sri Lanka 1 city
Colombo #374
Nepal 1 city
Kathmandu #457
Mongolia 1 city
Ulaanbaatar #491
Myanmar 1 city
Yangon #492
Cambodia 1 city
Phnom Penh #620
Uzbekistan 1 city
Tashkent #882
Afghanistan 1 city
Kabul #985