Bay Area ≈ epicenter for AI & web3 and it's why we picked it as the 🎯 for the
@thehouseofweb3
73 % of all North-American AI VC dollars in 2024 went to Bay Area startups, far ahead of every other metro.
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Bay Area companies raised $90 B in total venture funding last year (57 % of the 🇺🇸 pot), the jump driven largely by AI rounds.
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Even
@nvidia is hunting for space in SF even though they are right down the road.
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SF San Jose topped the 2024 league table for AI job postings per capita.
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LinkedIn’s Economic Graph shows the city still houses 49 % of all big-tech engineers and 27 % of US startup engineers.
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& 🌉 equally bullish on web3
Hosting 169 blockchain co's, the largest single metro cluster in the US
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A separate count lists 56 dedicated web3 startups headquartered here, from infra to consumer apps.
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@coinbase HQ launching in SF
Many of the world’s biggest crypto investors
@a16z @paradigm ,
@PanteraCapital @cbventures are SF-based, keeping deal flow and founder traffic local.
...and HOW3 🌉14k sq ft Presidio loft with Golden Gate views, 15m from downtown.
Co-creators are a 50/50 split of AI and web3 🐐so every meetup cross-pollinates LLM talent with onchain natives. 100's of events every year, inc some with Vitalik and CEO of Amazon.
Capital, talent, the spotlight🔦
House of Web3 puts you right in the flow.