Most Indemand Startups of Summer 2014

in Most InDemand Startups of Summer 2014 The hit companies Bay Area tech pros are jamming to: 1. LYTRO 2. theranos * fitbit 3. 4. COursera 5. minted. 6. wealthfront 7. Bromium® O twilio EGNYTE 8. 10. LEAP мотI ON This ranking is based on the analysis of millions of LinkedIn interactions between over 337K san Francisco Bay Area tech workers and startups with fewer than 500 employees. The companies with the smallest and largest crews wealthfront * fitbit. <50 400+ employees employees These top startups play in the following industries Computer software Online education Internet/crowdsourcing Biotech Heath and wellness Financial services Photography Consumer electronics What happened to the 2013 Most InDemand Startups? 6 companies are now valued between 1 billion and 10 billion dollars. Dropbox Pinterest cloudera JAWBONE NUTANIX. Hortonworks 3 companies went public: violin GoPro IIII nimble storage MEMORY Expect the global InDemand Employer Rankings this October 2014 Linked in. Talent Solutions talent.linkedin.com Footnotes: 1. Rankings based on Linkedin site activity among 300k software engineers (and similar titles) who reside in the San Francisco Bay Area. 2. We considered site activity between Feb 2014 through July 2014, including Company Page Views, Follows, and Profile Views (performed by non-employees) 3. Startups are defined here as privately-held companies with fewer than 500 employees on LinkedIn as of August 1st, 2014. 4. To highlight emerging companies, past Top 10 honorees (2012, 2013) were excluded, as well as subsidiaries of larger companies. 5. Valuations according to Wall Street Journal "The Billion-Dollar Startup Club": http://graphics.wsj.com/billion-dollar-club/ 9.