Cloud computing topped Mattermark’s “Startup Traction Report 2014“, which lists the fastest-growing startup industries in 2014.
As for the other industries that follow from a distance, they are the sectors of analytics, financial, Internet of things, enterprise software, software development, education, marketing, advertising and IT security.
Mattermark measures industry growth by looking at the growth of individual startups, taking into account monthly unique website visitors, weekly mobile downloads, social media metrics, number of employees and equity funding. Mattermark organizes the world’s business information to help dealmakers answer questions about companies they’d like to do business with.