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Browse startup ecosystem leaders that inspire entrepreneurs within the startup ecosystem.

Tobias Lutke is the founder and CEO of Shopify, a commerce company based in Ottawa, Canada. He has served on the core team of the Ruby on Rails framework and has created open source libraries such as Active Merchant.

Tobias Lutke

As the innovation hub of the Asia-Pacific region, Taiwan is renowned for its outstanding high-tech R&D capacity, highly-trained professionals, and thriving networks of entrepreneurs which enable our  startup ecosystem to achieve steady continuous growth.

Director General, Department of Academia-Industry Collaboration and Science Park Affairs

In the recent years, Moscow has become a gravity centre for the most talented people not only from Russia and Eastern Europe, but from all over the world. Such concentration of professionals affirms Moscow as one of the global “cities of the future”, world centre for the development of breakthrough technologies, particularly in IT.

The Moscow Agency of Innovations was established to create a truly favorable environment for the advancement of technology in Moscow.

2016

The Skolkovo Innovation Center and Skolkovo Foundation was signed into law with a goal to goal is to create a sustainable ecosystem of entrepreneurship and innovation.

2010

Avito, a classified ads website and now a unicorn, first went online.

2007

The Moscow Seed Fund, a VC which invests in see and pre-seed startups, was established.

2005

Yandex search engine was launched!!!!

1997

Apply Board becomes Ontario’s first established Unicorn.

2020

Collision conference first held at the Enercare Center in Toronto.

2019

Clearco - A lending platform for startups first goes online.

2015

Point click care founded (Will eventually become a unicorn valued at 4 billion in January 2022).

1995

Ontario

Global Startup Leaders

Regional Rank & change	Global Rank & Change	Total Score	Quantity Score	Quality Score	Business Score
1st^new	th^new	198.080	28.21	166.07	3.80
1st^new	th^new	51.218	13.23	34.53	3.46
1st^new	th^new	46.573	6.87	36.63	3.07
1st^new	th^new	34.490	10.24	21.02	3.23
1st^new	th^new	27.074	4.82	18.86	3.39
1st^new	th^new	26.571	2.73	20.43	3.41
1st^new	th^new	25.939	5.44	17.16	3.34
1st^new	th^new	22.916	5.18	14.73	3.00
1st^new	th^new	21.503	6.47	11.46	3.58
1st^new	th^new	21.423	5.12	13.18	3.12

Comparative Analysis of Top Cities for Startups in Ontario