Lands of opportunity

Some Sunshine State cities showed up on a recent ranking from Raleigh, N.C.-based software company Malartu of the top 10 metro areas for middle-market investing.

Malartu, in the introduction to the ranking, acknowledges there are varying definitions for middle-market companies. “Despite these discrepancies,” it says, “the idea behind the numbers is the same: middle market firms are bigger than startups and smaller than big businesses.”

It also says middle-market growth rates have skyrocketed in recent years and the sector represents a great place to invest. That leads to the question Malartu asks: “Where can we find the best, fastest-growing, most-successful middle market firms to invest in?”