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From its founding as California's first city, San Jose has been a leader, driven by its spirit of innovation. Today, San Jose stands as the largest City in Northern California and the Capital of Silicon Valley--the world's leading center of innovation. The City is committed to remaining a top ranked place to do business, to work, and to live. The community offers what innovative people and companies need today in order to succeed.
FAST FACTS
San Jose is the largest city in Silicon Valley, the largest city in Northern California, and the 10th largest city in the nation. In the past 60 years, San Jose grew exponentially with Silicon Valley’s high-tech success, from less than 100,000 residents in 1950 to more than 1 million today.
San Jose offers an extraordinarily entrepreneurial environment where people from all walks of life start and grow companies, and achieve their dreams. San Jose is consistently ranked as the world’s leading innovation center (“World’s Most Competitive Innovation Economy” World Knowledge Competitiveness Index, “America’s Most Innovative City” Forbes , “Pre-eminent High-tech Cluster in the World” Milken Institute).
San Jose is an epicenter for creativity and innovation--is unmatched for technical and entrepreneurial talent, for technology depth and breadth. San Jose ranks #1 nationally in patents held by residents and is #1 in the nation for venture capital investors and investment, with more than 500 venture capital and private equity firms.
As America’s most international city, San Jose is a global gateway for leading businesses and talent from around the world. San Jose has the largest share of population born in another country (34%) of any U.S. city and ranked first in nation in new immigrants—10% of residents have arrived in U.S. since 2000.
San Jose is a highly educated, industrious, dynamic, cosmopolitan community—one skilled at innovation across cultures and borders. San Jose ranks #1 nationally in percentage of jobs related to exports and the region’s only Foreign Trade Zone, to cut costs for manufacturers
Moving at the speed of business, San Jose offers a cost-effective, welcoming environment for new businesses. San Jose has in place incentive and permitting program to enable business to expedite investment. |
Nanci Klein
Chris Burton