BENGALURU: Bengaluru is home to the world’s 15th-best startup ecosystem in the world, up from 19th three years ago, according to a global Startup Ecosystem Report published by Valley-based startup benchmarking firm Compass. Specifically, Bengaluru is ranked number 10 in the valuation and number of startups and number 6 in access to funding, but lags behind in talent and market reach."Delighted Bengaluru is ascending in global rankings of tech ecosystems. The city’s multi-faceted ecosystem attracts talent and expertise from around the globe and also our diaspora, all of which have enabled Bengaluru to hit the tipping point," commented Ravi Gururaj, chairman of the Nasscom Product Council . Meanwhile, Sharad Sharma, cofounder and CEO of software product think tank iSPIRT, thinks that the metrics for Bengaluru may be underreported. "Bengaluru has the best reach into digital consumers in India... this kind of reach is not there in any other place other than SV and China.Bengaluru is where people come together, inspired by the opensource model, to build public goods at a scale that is not seen anywhere else other than the Silicon Valley," he commented. This is the second startup ecosystem report from Compass (formerly Startup Genome), the first being in 2012. The top 10 ecosystems include seven cities in the US, with Silicon Valley taking the lead.Tel Aviv, Berlin and Singapore round up the list. Singapore is the only other Asian city on the list, jumping to tenth position from number 17 in 2012. It is commended for its funding access, market reach, and startup experience, but it ranked last for talent access. The report excludes China, Japan, and South Korea due to language constraints in data collection.The report specially commended Bengaluru for showing five-fold increasing in exits, quadrupling VC investment, and for having the highest growth in the number of seed investments. Its growth index is ranked second globally, only after Berlin.India is receiving a lot of attention in the startup world globally, said Neha Singh, cofounder of international startup tracking firm Tracxn !. "Bengaluru has traditionally been a large recruiting ground, and we have gradually been seeing improvement over time in Bengaluru’s hiring ecosystem.It is going through its natural evolution of senior management resource pool, and many companies have gone overseas to hire people to Bengaluru. Both these factors combined should contribute to the talent pool and become a key catalyst in accelerating things going forward," she said.Across the top 20 ecosystems, total exit growth rose 78 per cent annually from 2012 to 2014. Bengaluru contributed to 0.20 per cent of global exit value. "Bengaluru has all the ingredients to beat any other part of the world outside of the Silicon Valley.No other city is able to offer such breadth and depth of potential across services, data analytics, and hardware startups that are both global and domestic-facing," added Gururaj of Nasscom. "If policies focus on ease of businesses, infrastructure, talent development, and making it easier for people to come and start and shut down companies, the sky is the limit. Otherwise there is no chance of rising to top five."