LinkedIn’s Top 15 Industry Disrupting Startups in the US

Written by asandre | Published 2017/11/01
Tech Story Tags: startup | technology | linkedin | disruption | social-media

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LinkedIn analyzed billions of actions to determine the top industry disruptors. Today, LinkedIn published its “Top Companies | Startups” list.

“To surface the companies, we looked at the billions of actions of LinkedIn’s more than 500 million members to determine employee growth, job seeker interest via views and applications, member engagement with the company and its employees — and how well these startups pulled talent from our flagship LinkedIn Top Companies list,” writes Daniel Roth, the platform’s Editor in Chief.

Data collected to tabulate the list includes valuation and funding data from CB Insights, as well as tenure, employee growth, and global headcount data from LinkedIn Premium Insights, unless provided directly by the company.

Here are the top 15:

They are all located in Silicon Valley, except WeWork, General Assembly, Glossier, headquartered in New York, and Convoy in Seattle.


Written by asandre | Comms + policy. Author of #digitaldiplomacy (2015), Twitter for Diplomats (2013). My views here.
Published by HackerNoon on 2017/11/01