Boston has had at least one $1B+ tech IPO (not including bio) every year for the last decade. There have been as many High nine-figure, billion-plus acquisitions in the same period.
Boston doesn't get much in the way of national PR, but it's arguably the 2nd best city in tech, measured by liquidity over the last decade, in the country.
And not just in boring security/B2B areas. Wayfair is a top 10 ecommerce player. CarGurus has thoroughly beat TrueCar. DraftKings created its category.
Boston-founded by an HBS-grad engineer who made early units himself, and bootstrapped until raising from Sequoia's growth fund. An amazing story that got almost no coverage in the tech press.
I think it has more to do with the fact that 3 of the 5 most important companies in tech are headquartered there have a combined $2.3T in market cap whereas Boston's biggest tech co's, TripAdvisor, Akamai, and Wayfair, have a combined market cap of ~$30B.
Boston doesn't get much in the way of national PR, but it's arguably the 2nd best city in tech, measured by liquidity over the last decade, in the country.
And not just in boring security/B2B areas. Wayfair is a top 10 ecommerce player. CarGurus has thoroughly beat TrueCar. DraftKings created its category.