Advantages for Entrepreneurs

• Supportive entrepreneurial ecosystem
• Burgeoning information technology industry:
  • Fastest growing city for tech jobs - Dice (3/2013)
  • St. Louis A Tech Hotbed? Yes! - CBS St. Louis (2/10/12)
  • St. Louis named one of biggest tech job markets of 2012 - Mashable (1/29/12)
  • Cheap power, real estate lure national tech firms - St. Louis Business Journal (3/11/11)
  • Downtown is becoming tech hub - STLToday (8/20/10)
• Ameria’s Best City for Cheapskates (to help you conserve costs, of course)
• Easy accessibility to quality research universities with which Arch Grants has established relationships
• Plenty of low cost electrical capacity
• Availability of large buildings for scaling your business
• State historic tax credit to benefit businesses growing downtown
• Diversity of other established and growing industries including plant and life sciences, biomedical, and financial services