The Kansas City, Mo.-based Kauffman Foundation recently released its 2016 Kauffman Index of Growth Entrepreneurship and found — to the authors seeming surprise — that the Washington, D.C. metro area topped a list of U.S. metro areas with the most growth entrepreneurship.

While the D.C. metro area is “not typically noted for entrepreneurship,” (according to a Kauffman Foundation press release), the area ranks well with what Kauffman considers to be the three key indicators for growth entrepreneurship. These are a high rate of startup growth, a large share of “scaleups” (businesses starting small and growing to medium-sized or large) and high density of high-growth companies.

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