Business expansion and relocation decisions are complex and are informed by a variety of factors beyond just basic demographics or census data. We know that fostering a strong business environment also requires articulating our investment profile to key stakeholders with clear indicators and metrics. Fremont’s new Investment Profile enables us to tell a more powerful story about the opportunities in Fremont and gain mindshare from the sometimes elusive investor community. Below are the highlights and you can download the full version with the link above.

Fremont companies received over $900 million of venture capital and angel funds from 2010 to 2012. Top recipients of funding were in the clean tech, semiconductor and biotech sectors.

 

Fremont was ranked 4th in the Silicon Valley for the number of patents awarded from January 2011 to July 2013. This includes a significant number of patents awarded to inventors who are also Fremont residents.

 

 

Fremont is dominant in the computer andelectronic product/peripheral equipment manufacturing employment category, which is 156 times more concentrated in Fremont than in the U.S. overall. (*A location quotient is figure that quantifies the concentration of a particular job sector relative to the ratio of those same jobs in U.S. overall. The higher the number, the more concentrated the cluster.)

 

Fremont recorded $5.3 billion of deposits in 2012 which ranks 9th in the San Francisco Bay Area.

  • 20 financial institutions represented
  • 45 branches

 

Fremont’s local assessment roll was $34 billion in 2013, close to an historic ten year high. Commercial and industrial properties comprised $11.5 billion or one third of total assesments.