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It's one of only 14 cities in the US to gain 100k residents in the last decade.

What startups has it produced in the last decade? Or, more knowably, the decade before that, 02002–02012?

CoverMyMeds was the recent poster child ($1B exit). Ohio has a large focus on insurance and med/biotech.

Root insurance has been a recent one

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/rootinsurance

CoverMyMeds another

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/covermymeds-com

At least for a Midwest city, investment does seem to be picking up

https://news.yahoo.com/columbus-startup-funding-skyrocketing...

That's pretty significant!

CoverMyMeds, Root Insurance, and Olive are a couple of unicorns.

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