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GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) named San Antonio, Texas the top city on its 2026 Most Entrepreneurial Cities list, released June 30, marking a milestone the Tempe-based domain and web-services company described as a first since the ranking's launch.
Sun Belt metros account for half of the cities on the list, a geographic concentration that Zillow has tied to underlying real estate dynamics shaping where founders are choosing to plant flags.
San Antonio's Rise and What It Signals San Antonio's claim to the top spot hands the buy-side a clean data point: the Texas city is outpacing better-known startup hubs on at least one measure of new-business density tracked by GoDaddy.
GoDaddy's methodology draws on its own platform data — registration activity, website creation, and related signals — giving the ranking an operational grounding that differentiates it from survey-based indexes.
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