Silicon Valley Map of Tech Companies and Startups
This is a map of all the tech companies and startups in Silicon Valley that I can find, updated regularly..
A quick look on Wikipedia will tell you that the term “Silicon Valley” dates back to the 1970s and was popularized in the early 80s when IBM and other firms began manufacturing and refining silicon chips in San Jose, Palo Alto and Mountain View. Prior to World War II the South Bay Area was filled with orchards and farms. Today much of California’s agriculture has moved inland to the Central Valley and elsewhere. The SF Bay Area is metropolis filled with nearly eight million people. There are persistent issues of lack of housing, poverty and income inequality in the Bay Area. There are also prosperous industries, dozens of billion dollar companies and professional opportunities for the people that live here.
The Santa Cruz Mountains flank Silicon Valley on the west and the San Francisco Bay fills in The Valley’s center. In the east there is Pleasanton Ridge and Sunol Ridge (definitely had to look up what those mountains were called) as well as the Hayward Hills and Mt. Diablo to the northeast and San Francisco to the northwest. Below is my super un-scientific drawing of where “Silicon Valley” is geographically.
