5 marketplace companies to watch in 2014 | VentureBeat | Business | by Meghan Kelly
Summary
eBay, Amazon and other marketplace companies enable buyers of products to connect with sellers of goods at a massive scale. Below is a list of five innovative marketplaces (in no particular order) that are poised to do really well in 2014: While the “Series A Crunch” has been well documented by a number of high-profile publications, seed and angel funding for startups continue to hit record highs. According to Alley Watch (numbers calculated from Crunchbase), $7.6 billion of venture capital and angel funding has been invested in enterprise startups in 2013. If three years ago you asked VCs which company is likely to make a serious run at Angie’s List (market cap around $793 million on NASDAQ), most would have probably answered either Taskrabbit or Zaarly. How investors react to this company’s IPO could set the tone for Uber, Airbnb, and others – in particular because of the massive regulatory issues they’ll face over time.
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