The region's dominance has declined since the pandemic, as lenient remote work policies and layoffs have fueled the departures of workers and cleared the way for rising investment in other tech hubs across the United States, notably Austin and Miami.
SAN FRANCISCO - As a computer science student in the Midwest, Alex Valaitis idolized Silicon Valley, drawn to the Bay Area like a theater major dreams of Broadway. But after five years of "soul-crushing" tech work, an exodus from San Francisco and rising crime in the city, Valaitis decamped in June 2021 for Austin.
Silicon Valley still ranked first last year in terms of venture-capital investments and the number of deals, according to data from PitchBook. But funding for companies in Miami has nearly quadrupled in the past three years, totaling $5.39 billion in 2022, while deal volume jumped 81 percent. Austin venture capital investments rose 77 percent to $4.95 billion with the number of deals jumping 23 percent.
"A redistribution [of funding] has definitely started. The pandemic, the fleeing of start-ups and remote work helped catalyze growth in those smaller markets," he said. But AI could ultimately change the industry and how many people are needed to operate those companies, said Muro, of Brookings. If AI innovations fundamentally change the industry's structure, the biggest impact to workers could be in Silicon Valley, he said.
"The need for talent to all be in the same place as they scale, we've sort of moved passed that," she said. "It's much more beneficial to branch out." For Kai Koerber, a senior data science major at the University of California at Berkeley and founder of his start-up Koer A.I., Silicon Valley is still the place to be as he works on building his company. However, in a couple of years after he's done some of the groundwork, the 22-year-old hopes to join some of his Gen Z tech peers by moving to New York.
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