There’s been plenty of buzz about Brooklyn becoming more and more a startup center, and recently Manhattan-based research and analysis firm CB Insights highlighted 19 reasons why Kings County is the place to be for tech.
One interesting figure was this: “the borough has attracted some $890M in startup funding over the last six years.”
Not bad!

The big jump is from the $570 Vice raised in 2014.
The big jump is from the $570 million Vice raised in 2014. (Courtesy image)

CB also gives a shoutout to hometown hero Charlie O’Donnell, of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures: “How many more VC name plaques on town homes will it take to create Brooklyn’s own version of Sandhill Road in Silicon Valley? Gowanus Row?”
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