Top US Cities for VC and Investment Spend

Invested in 2012 and based on data from the Martin Prosperity Institute:

1. San Francisco-Oakland: $6.896 billion (25.6% of the top 100 cities)
2. San Jose-Sunnyvale: $3.985 billion (14.8%)
3. Boston: $3.101 billion (11.5%)
4. New York City: $2.269 billion (8.4%)
5. Los Angeles: $1.677 billion (6.2%)
6. San Diego: $1.134 billion (4.2%)
7. Seattle: $886 million (3.3%)
8. Austin: $626 million (2.3%)
9. Chicago: $547 million (2.0%)
10. Washington, D.C.: $484 million (1.8%)
11. Philadelphia: $347 million (1.3%)
12. Denver: $264 million (1.0%)
13. Atlanta: $262 million (1.0%)
14. Boulder, Colo.: $256 million (1.0%)
15. Minneapolis-St. Paul: $256 million (0.9%)
16. Santa Barbara, Calif.: $251 million (0.9%)
17. Phoenix: $214 million (0.8%)
18. Raleigh-Cary, N.C.: $184 million (0.7%)
19. Pittsburgh: $167 million (0.6%)
20. Provo-Orem, Utah: $162 million (0.6%)

7 Disruptive Technologies - Investment Focus - Angel and VC

The following 7 Disruptive Technologies will shape investments in the next 8 - 10 years.  If there are companies doing multiple technologies, they are a candidate to consider for investments at the angel and venture capital rounds of funding.  The sources include: McKinsey, Gartner, and Forrester.

1. Mobile and Cloud Internet - Mobile computing - Burstable hardware and software services to support mobile devices
2. Internet of Things and Sensors  - Wearable devices - Low cost sensors - Embedded appliance devices
3. Advanced Robotics and Autonomic Vehicles - Robotics with enhanced sensors - Augment humans
4. Next-Generation Genomics - Big data analytics and synthetic biology - Writing DNA
5. Energy Storage - The battery problem
6. 3D Printing - Advanced manufacturing - Printing of layers of materials on digital models
7. Advanced Oil and Gas Exploration/Renewable Energy - Extraction of unconventional oil and gas assets - Electricity from solar and wind - Driven by Federal tax credits