I've always been fascinated with the fact that certain industries of an industry end up agglomerating themselves in the same region. As in Internet startups in San Francisco, car makers in Detroit, advertising agencies in New York, movie studios in LA, etc.
But if you look at sub-segments of an industry this happens as well, you can certainly making multiple trend cases for Seattle. Case in point: Web-based Health/Wellness startups.
While working on categorizing the startups for next month's SSI, I found a curiosity to the say the least. There are quite a few startups tacking social network or services for the health conscious. If you look at the list below, the founders come mostly from tech companies, so we can't blame this cluster on some major drug maker. What could it be then?
Here are some startups from the list that fit that criteria:
Healia
Personalized health search engine
iMedExchange
Online community for physicians
Limeade
Online wellnes system for employees
RealSelf
Review and information on anti-aging products
Sweat365
Social network for athletes to track daily routines
Trusera
Social network for people to find health information
Zeenami
Help people achieve personal goals like lose weight or quit smoking
Any web-health startup in Seattle that I'm missing?