#4 Seattle

Country: The United States

Startup Output Index: 19

Funding Index: 7

Performance Index: 6

Overall rank: 4

Seattle is also has the headquarters of more tech titans than most cities in U.S. Amazon.com, Expedia and Microsoft are few to name. 

Seattle also has attracted a growing stable of engineering centers from the California powerhouses like Facebook, Splunk, Hulu, Zynga, Jawbone, RichRelevance and others. Google — the first of these Silicon Valley titans to arrive — employs about 1,000 people in the Seattle area, split between offices in Kirkland and Fremont, reports GeekWire.

#3 Los Angeles

Country: The United States

Startup Output Index: 4

Funding Index: 6

Performance Index: 2

Overall rank: 3

Los Angeles has already produced dozens of great tech success stories, such as Cornerstone On Demand, eHarmony, Green Dot, HauteLook, Legal Zoom, MySpace, Overture, Riot Games, ShoeDazzle, United Online and many others.

Tech accelerators such as StartEngine are booming in Los Angeles, boosting prospects for tech start-ups locally and, program founders hope, transforming the region into a technology hub. MuckerLab, Amplify, Launchpad LA and K5 are just some of the local accelerators to emerge, reports Los Angeles Times.

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