Bloggers and writers based in the U.S. often like to make a comparison between London with Silicon Valley and often comment that it is better to go to the U.S. if a company wants $30 million in funding, but is that really true? Chances are, if you are a startup in the U.S., getting $30 million for your Series A or B is going to be similar to winning the lottery. With a population of 350 million people with a high concentration of startups, typically the ones surrounding the golden arc of Stanford, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and Harvard, are often the ones that get funded into the multi-millions.