Westchester/Silicon Beach is the Westside region of the Los Angeles metropolitan area that is home to over 500 tech startup companies, with emphasis on the coastal strip north of LAX. Major technology companies have opened offices in the region including Google, Yahoo!, YouTube, BuzzFeed, Facebook and Salesforce. Additionally, several mobile ventures seeded here like Snapchat and Tinder. In 2012, the region was considered the second- or third-hottest tech hub in the world, according to some metrics.