There are many different areas in the startup community that will require you to think ahead and bet on future concepts. Larry Scheinfeld shares a few chosen trends that will become the most populated startup industries in the coming year.

2. TRANSPORTATION
The ridesharing industry is led by
companies chasing unicorn status.
Uber and Lyft have become pioneers
for luxury on-demand car services.

3. VIRTUAL REALITY
Now that VR has gone mainstream, there are
avenues for both consumer facing products
and business enabling software. Since 2014,
Google has offered low priced VR headsets
that piggyback on your smartphone, through
their Cardboard viewer.

4. WEARABLES / DIGITAL HEALTH
Apple’s Healthkit is a new way to monitor your
health and fitness in coordination with all of your
other health tracking apps. Healthkit essentially
has created a standard dashboard for iPhone
users to oversee data from your health related
applications.

5. CROWDFUNDING