The most attractive place for tech outside of Silicon Valley is… Canada

It's no secret that Google searches for "how to move to Canada" surged after the 2016 U.S. presidential election. But there's now new data that Canadian startups are seeing more interest from U.S. workers than ever before, as fist reported by Axios -- and many of them are attributing it to dissatisfaction with U.S. politics. MaRS, an innovation hub in Toronto, asked startups in the city if they've seen a surge in applications from U.S. workers since November. Zoom.ai, an enterprise chatbot startup, went from receiving nearly zero U.S. applications to 33 percent of its applications coming from the U.S. in February. "I've been in tech for over 20 years in Canada and in Silicon Valley, too. I've never seen candidates from the U.S. apply for Canadian positions from places like Silicon Valley," Roy Pereira, the CEO of Zoom.ai, an enterprise chatbot startup, told Axios.