North America is the biggest IVD market globally, and is also the biggest consumption market. The San Francisco Bay Area may be often considered as a natural home to well established IVD device leaders responsible for spearheading industry advancements including Bio-Rad, Roche and Thermo Fisher and many other promising startups breaking into the market. Currently it has approximately 30% share of the global market and would exceed the share by 2020, growing at a CAGR of 3.57% from 2019 till 2025.