Nevada — From Hoover Dam to the Gigafactory in Nevada

Nevada's real company base has moved well past the casino floor. Light & Wonder and Everi Holdings turned gaming technology and payments into genuine operating companies headquartered in Las Vegas; Switch runs some of the largest data centers in the western US from the same city; Boxabl is manufacturing factory-built modular housing in North Las Vegas at a scale few housing startups reach. A real, still-small biotech cluster -- Heligenics, Equani, MedWand Solutions, X2L Bio -- has formed loosely around UNLV. And the state built its own venture infrastructure to fund it: StartUpNV, AngelNV, Battle Born Venture, Rebel Venture Fund, and Tip of the Spear Ventures are all real, Nevada-based investor firms, not out-of-state funds passing through. UNLV and UNR anchor the two ends of the state.

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Nevada and Iowa Have Almost the Same Population. One Has Eight Louis Vuitton Stores. The Other Has None. By 2005, Real Language-Processing Companies Existed in Las Vegas, Pittsburgh, and a Utah Suburb. Not One Was in Silicon Valley. Nevada Built an Entire City to House Hoover Dam's Workers in 1931. In 2014, It Gave Tesla $1.3 Billion to Build a Different Kind of Power Plant.

Region Stats

Total firms 46

VC / investors 10

Companies 34

Schools 2

People 1

By Who For

Undetermined 10

Healthcare & Life Sciences 6

Media & Entertainment 6

Finance 5

Known For

From Hoover Dam to the Gigafactory