London named best city in the world to be a young entrepreneur, ahead of NYC, San Francisco and Moscow

Friday 14 January 2022 9:24 am

Using the Forbes 30 Under 30 lists from Europe, North America, Russia, Asia and Africa, London has been named as the best city in the world to be a young entrepreneur.

Despite North America being by far the most popular in providing Forbes Under 30 candidates, London is the most popular city for young entrepreneurs to succeed in, business comparison platform Bionic found, analysing the rankings.

In fact, many candidates on the North America, Asia and Russia lists actually live in London, the research found.

Looking at various industries, city, country, university education, and gender of each young entrepreneur, the researchers identified the best places to be when you have a young, hungry entrepreneurial mind.

London beat New York as the most popular city for successful young entrepreneurs to succeed in globally.

Rank	Most Popular Cities	Number of Forbes Under 30s
1	London	115
2	New York	106
3	San Francisco	88
4	Moscow	51
5	Los Angeles	39
6	Stockholm	17
7	Toronto	16
8	Berlin	10
9	Boston	10
10	Chicago	10

Countries

Meanwhile, best countries in the world for young entrepreneurs to work in were North America (41 per cent), United Kingdom (14 per cent), Russia (10 per cent), India (7 per cent) and China (2 per cent), according to the Forbes data.

Rank	Most Popular Countries	Number of Forbes Under 30s
1	United States	428
2	United Kingdom	145
3	Russia	109
4	India	81
5	China	22
6	Germany	21
7	South Korea	17
8	Singapore	16
9	Japan	15
10	Sweden	15

Education is still key

The best universities in the world for prospective entrepreneurs were Stanford University (United States), Indian Institute of Technology (India), Harvard University (United States), University of California (United States) and Imperial College London (United Kingdom).

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