One of the changes that have taken place in the East Coast startup ecosystem in the past four or five years is the region has ratcheted up its capacity for launching new companies.
As part of our mission to chart and analyze data on the startup community, we track the new companies that appear each year. As the chart above shows, the region’s ability to crank out startups underwent a steep change between 2015 and 2017. It wasn’t an overnight change, but in three of the last four years the region has launched more than 100 startups a year.
We have catalogued 115 companies that were formed in