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Startups and investors are increasingly foregoing Silicon Valley for the Silicon Prairie — and with good reason.
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But change is a-brewing: Investors are flocking to Middle American cities like Omaha and Des Moines. Startups are forgoing the paradisiacal pastures of California for a little Midwestern mojo. And the “Silicon Prairie” — cornfields and all — is having a moment in the unrelenting sun.
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In early 2010, Mark Kvamme, a prominent venture capitalist at
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Sequoia Capital
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, took a 6-month leave of absence and left Silicon Valley to explore the Midwest.
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When he was there, something strange happened. “I kind of fell in love with the place." Kvamme told
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He recruited Chris Olsen, also a VC at Sequoia, and made him a proposition: They’d leave California and start their own fund exclusively for Midwest companies.
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In 2013, the duo set up shop in Columbus, Ohio, raised a
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Kvamme
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"I think people will look back and say it was so obvious that the Midwest was about to emerge because the numbers had swung so far against it," he says.
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The “numbers” he’s referring to don’t lie: The Midwest is home to 150 Fortune 500 companies, 25% of all US computer science graduates, and 60% of the country’s manufacturing base. It is a large market (it makes up 19% of America’s GDP) and is rife with innovation (19% of all US patents) — yet it accounts for only 5% of all venture capital funding.
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A growing number of disillusioned Silicon Valley VCs are starting to catch onto this, and are shifting their focus to overlooked Midwestern markets.
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Steve Case (a co-founder of AOL), and J.D. Vance (author of the widely-read
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) recently launched ‘
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,’ a $150m Midwest startup fund
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by the likes of Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, Howard Schultz, and Ray Dalio.
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VC firms and incubators — both locally-grown and transplanted — dot the prairies, from
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in Columbus, to
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Cintrifuse
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in downtown Cincinnati.
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, coastal VCs flock to Midwestern cities like South Bend, Indiana by the luxury-busload, scouring local startups for investment opportunities.
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</a>
the
<em>
New York Times
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, between bites of a vegan donut. “It’s so expensive, it’s so congested… It’s the worst part of the social network.”
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Traditionally, the vast majority of tech investors (and consequently, the vast majority of tech startups) have stayed entrenched in coastal America. As of 2017, 76% of all venture capital money was poured into just
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: California, New York, and Massachusetts.
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But last year,
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</a>
in Midwestern companies was up to an all-time high of $4.5B. And investors are seeing returns: in 2017, 37 companies in the region
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exited
</a>
for a total value of $5.1B, up from $1.6B in 2016. CoverMyMeds, Ohio’s “first tech unicorn,” was sold for $1.1B, good for the biggest exit in the state’s history.
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— and the Midwest has no shortage of them.
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The companies sprouting up in the region are varied and diverse, ranging from Omaha-based WordPress hosting platform, Flywheel, to Wichita-based industrial supplier, Nitrade Solutions. As one might expect, there is a focus on manufacturing and agriculture, but industries span IoT, insurance, education, bioengineering, healthcare, and motorsports.
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In a region desperately in need of growth, this boom is creating thousands of jobs, the majority of which are “
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mid tech
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,” or tech jobs that don’t require a college degree.
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Christopher Miller, a 31 year-old living in St. Louis, is among the newly employed.
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After graduating from high school, he worked various retail and construction jobs with an average salary of $22k per year. In 2016, he underwent a technical training program, and now makes $57k as a network specialist at a mid-size tech company.
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“These kinds of opportunities weren’t even around 10 years ago,” he says. “It’s pretty surreal to see how much things have changed.”
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The mythology of the Midwest’s inherent lameness — “It’s in the Rust Belt!”; “There’s no innovation there!”; “No capital!”; “No talent!”; “The rivers are all on fire!” — is dying out.
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FireSpring, an integrated marketing startup in Lincoln, NE, has all the trappings of a young techie office, including a two-story slide. The company told the Lincoln Journal Star they wanted to create a "dynamic work environment that keeps 20-somethings interested" (via ADA Lincoln).
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Stephanie Luebbe is executive director of the
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, a network of 60 angel investors who have invested $11m in local startups to date.
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She clarifies it’s not so much that companies are
<em>
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to the Midwest as it is that Midwest startups are choosing to stay there, rather than relocate to places like San Francisco. In Nebraska, there is more capital to deploy than the number of companies ready to take it.
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“There are a lot of reasons to invest here, or start a company here” she says. “The dollar goes further here than on the coast, run rates are longer, there’s a ton of affordable talent, and there’s the Midwest work ethic.”
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In San Francisco, the average software engineer makes
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</a>
(19%
<em>
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</em>
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is about one-third of what it is in the Bay Area.
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“I’m able to live in an apartment that’s bigger than a closet, for a quarter of the price” one programmer who recently moved from San Francisco to Ohio tells us. “And my grocery bill is, like, half [what it was].”
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There is certainly no shortage of talent to choose from. As
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Inc.
</a>
notes, the Midwest has one of the most significant clusters of high-quality universities in the nation, with the University of Chicago, Notre Dame, Northwestern, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, and Carnegie Mellon all within an hour’s flight.
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In San Francisco, a large portion of capital goes also toward things that have nothing to do with innovation. With a lower cost of living, companies in the Midwest enjoy burn rates that are up to
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But perhaps the most important benefit of launching a startup in the Midwest is a proximity to the core issues and customers at hand.
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“A lot of companies on the coast are trying to solve problems that exist in Middle America,” says Luebbe. “Startups in the Midwest are better poised to tackle those problems.” She cites an Omaha-based company that creates data analytics for small rural hospitals, the majority of which are in the Midwest.
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One thing I hear over and over again from entrepreneurs, investors, and tech workers in the Midwest is that they don’t want to live in Silicon Valley’s shadow.
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For years, pundits have proclaimed any place with a rising tech scene the “next Silicon Valley:”
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Boulder
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,
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Utah
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Seattle
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“[There’s a] distinctly Midwestern approach to business,” says
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