{"id":13429,"date":"2015-04-07T08:54:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T08:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2015\/apr\/07\/the-top-100-cloud-based-enterprise-software-startups-of-2015\/"},"modified":"2015-04-07T08:54:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T08:54:06","slug":"the-top-100-cloud-based-enterprise-software-startups-of-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/the-top-100-cloud-based-enterprise-software-startups-of-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"The top 100 cloud-based enterprise software startups of 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(c)iStock.com\/maxkabakov<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"tweet_quote\">Investments in emerging enterprise software companies increased 53% from Q3 to Q4, 2014<\/span> &nbsp;according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwcmoneytree.com\/\" >MoneyTree Report<\/a>, a collaborative research initiative between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwcmoneytree.com\/\" >PricewaterhouseCoopers<\/a> and the National Venture Capital Association.&nbsp; A graphic from the latest available data shows how software investments were 39% of all investments in Q4, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>To determine which <span class=\"forbes_entity\">enterprise<\/span> software <span class=\"forbes_entity\">startups<\/span> have gained the greatest amount of funding since they were founded, <a href=\"https:\/\/mattermark.com\/#page-top\" >Mattermark<\/a> was used to rank order all <span class=\"forbes_entity\">enterprise<\/span> start-ups.&nbsp; Mattermark uses a combination of artificial intelligence and data quality analysis to provide insights into over 1M companies, over 470K with employee data, and over 100,000 funding events.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8144 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-images.forbes.com\/louiscolumbus\/files\/2015\/03\/invest-by-industry.jpg\" alt=\"invest by industry\" width=\"730\" height=\"457\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mattermark uses their <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mattermark.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/203378709-What-is-the-Growth-Score-\" >Growth Score<\/a> is the default ranking for all companies tracked in their service.&nbsp; This score is not meant to provide guidance on which startup to invest in.&nbsp; Rather it&rsquo;s a measure of momentum across the metrics and KPIs that Mattermark measures.<\/p>\n<p>Using their free trial, I completed the following analysis of cloud-based <span class=\"forbes_entity\">enterprise<\/span> software <span class=\"forbes_entity\">startups<\/span>. I&rsquo;m not a consultant to Mattermark and never have been. As many readers find software investment data fascinating, I contacted Mattermark and asked for a free trial, which they graciously provided. <a href=\"https:\/\/lcolumbus.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/top-100-cloud-enterprise-startups-march-2015-update-final.xlsx\" >You can download the list in Microsoft Excel format here.&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lcolumbus.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/03\/matrix.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8145 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-images.forbes.com\/louiscolumbus\/files\/2015\/03\/matrix-780x1940.jpg\" alt=\"matrix\" width=\"730\" height=\"1816\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=softwarestrategiesblog.com&amp;blog=11833253&amp;post=5268&amp;subd=lcolumbus&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(c)iStock.com\/maxkabakov<br \/>\nInvestments in emerging enterprise software companies increased 53% from Q3 to Q4, 2014 &nbsp;according to MoneyTree Report, a collaborative research initiative between PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital As&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13430,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13429\/revisions\/13430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}