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Twice the venture density sits in the Valley. What sits in the DMV instead doesn't have a name yet.
The DMV has less than half Silicon Valley's venture density -- 24% of DMV companies on file are investors or VC firms, against 52% in the Bay Area. What fills the rest of the DMV's graph instead, including defense primes and the CIA-created In-Q-Tel, doesn't have a Silicon Valley equivalent.
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