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Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that serves as a global center for high technology and innovation.

Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it corresponds roughly to the geographical area of the Santa Clara Valley.

San Jose is Silicon Valley's largest city, the third-largest in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States; other major Silicon Valley cities include Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Redwood City, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Cupertino.

The San Jose Metropolitan Area has the third-highest GDP per capita in the world (after Zürich, Switzerland and Oslo, Norway), according to the Brookings Institution, and, as of June 2021, has the highest percentage of homes valued at $1 million or more in the United States.

Venture capital (commonly abbreviated as VC) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth potential or which have demonstrated high growth (in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, scale of operations, etc).

Venture capital firms or funds invest in these early-stage companies in exchange for equity, or an ownership stake.

Venture capitalists take on the risk of financing risky start-ups in the hopes that some of the companies they support will become successful.

Because startups face high uncertainty, VC investments have high rates of failure.

The start-ups are usually based on an innovative technology or business model and they are usually from high technology industries, such as information technology (IT), clean technology or biotechnology.

A startup or start-up is a company or project undertaken by an entrepreneur to seek, develop, and validate a scalable business model.

While entrepreneurship includes all new businesses, including self-employment and businesses that do not intend to go public, startups are new businesses that intend to grow large beyond the solo founder.

At the beginning, startups face high uncertainty and have high rates of failure, but a minority of them do go on to be successful and influential.

Funding is the act of providing resources to finance a need, program, or project.

While this is usually in the form of money, it can also take the form of effort or time from an organization or company.

Generally, this word is used when a firm uses its internal reserves to satisfy its necessity for cash, while the term financing is used when the firm acquires capital from external sources.

Business is the practice of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (such as goods and services).

It is also "any activity or enterprise entered into for profit.".