A 35-mile stretch of Connecticut just deployed 180.8 billion dollars across 244 deals—that's an average of 741 million per deal while California's median sits under 50 million. Westport alone moved 35 billion in six transactions, mostly from Bridgewater's fund closings, because Connecticut isn't funding startups—it's where institutional allocators decide which funds get billions before that money ever reaches Silicon Valley companies. California builds the unicorns, but Greenwich and Stamford control the capital that makes those rounds possible, and nobody's paying attention to the actual decision-makers.