Software Report magazine is pleased to announce the 2020 Top 100 Software Companies. These companies provide some of the largest and most influential software solutions to businesses around the world. They cover a wide range of functionality, from data analytics and business analytics to workflow tools, leads and security, and more.
This year's winners were selected based on nominations submitted by industry professionals as well as corporate clients. Each nominated company was evaluated on multiple dimensions, including product strength, quality of management team, organizational composition and company growth.
Congratulations to the companies honored with the 2020 Top 100 Software Companies Award.
1. Sales force
Category: Customer Relationship Management
Location: San Francisco, CA
Since the beginning of this century,sales forceHas become one of the most trusted customer relationship management (CRM) platforms in the world. In 1999, co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff with Parker Harris, Dave Moellenhoff and Frank Dominguez Dominguez, founded the company to remove the physical burden of software and inadvertently incorporate innovative software-as-a-service (SaaS) into industries, processes. Salesforce was the first company to focus on SaaS early on and remains a pioneer in the industry.
Salesforce is built on the Customer 360 platform, designed to connect customer data across multiple applications and departments, and provide a clear, reliable view of each customer. Features like Lightning App Builder and Trailhead Training Platform give businesses more control to learn and operate their entire cloud-based infrastructure, while other apps automate sales and marketing processes. Salesforce is a truly powerful all-in-one CRM tool for businesses large and small.
The world's #1 CRM platform, Salesforce simplifies operations for more than 150,000 customers, including Farmers Insurance, ADP, and Amazon Web Services. With $17.1 billion in annual revenue and growing, the company's tradition of innovation and excellence appears to be intact.
2. Working days
Category: Human Capital Management
Location: Pleasanton, California
When Oracle acquired PeopleSoft's Human Resource Management System (HRMS) in 2004, David Duffield and Aneel Bhusri decided it was time to break the chain of physical servers and focus on a cloud-based future. This is the result of your cooperation.working day, the power of subscription-based business software. As of 2020, their platform has been adopted by industry giants like HubSpot, Netflix, and Quicken Loans, with high customer satisfaction driving their continued expansion.
Headquartered in Pleasanton, CA (a suburb of San Francisco), Workday integrates human capital and financial management systems into one modern interface, giving companies greater control over their most valuable assets. HR and payroll are closely linked, and Workday ensures these systems work together to benefit every company. As enterprise resource planning (ERP) continues to drive growth, the platform increases efficiency and increases agility, enabling companies to stay ahead of the competition.
Since its founding, Workday has grown into one of the world's largest publicly traded SaaS companies and continues to grow today, with $1B in ARR quarterly. Bhusri is co-founder and CEO with two decades of experience at the forefront of enterprise software, facilitating the migration of evolving infrastructures from legacy systems to the cloud. As long as Bhusri and Duffield continue to lead, Workday will soon become the dominant player in the HR software market.
3.service immediately
Category: IT Service Management
Location: Santa Clara, California
Founded in 2003,service immediatelyHas become one of the fastest growing companies in the enterprise software support market. In the ever-changing modern business ecosystem, companies must stay ahead of the competition while growing at an equally astonishing pace, and the ServiceNow platform provides the tools to easily automate and digitize traditionally manual systems.
Improving business outcomes is the ultimate goal of ServiceNow's industry-leading Platform as a Service (PaaS). Now Platform is an easy-to-integrate, cloud-based suite that enhances your company's existing infrastructure while increasing the speed and efficiency of day-to-day operations. The result is a comprehensive digital workplace that keeps your business growing and growing.
CEO Bill McDermott, who joined the company in late 2019 when John Donahue rose to the top of Nike, had no intention of slowing ServiceNow down. In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the company is addressing workplace health and wellness with its suite of Safe Workplace apps, which are designed to address employee and employer concerns about reopening offices. McDermott expects it to grow to $10 billion in annual revenue, continuing to outperform its software rivals and catching up to the top spot currently held by Salesforce.
4. Akamai
Category: Cloud Computing
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Most people in the tech ecosystem already know thatAkamaiis a Boston area company that has taken cloud services and security to the next level. Since its founding, MIT has become one of the largest players in the Content Delivery Network (CDN) system, providing web users with the safest, fastest, and most reliable Internet experience. Akamai's Intelligent Platform leverages physical networks and cloud computing to bridge the gap between users and servers. In short, if you've been using the Internet for the past two decades, Akamai is your secret nanny.
CEO and co-founders Dr. Tom Leighton and mathematician Danny Lewin created Akamai when internet technology was about to explode across the globe. Despite Lewin's tragic death in the September 11 attacks, Dr Leighton has been a permanent director of the company since its inception in 1998. He built the company into a global leader in Internet content and multimedia distribution solutions with more than 7,500 employees. In 2019, the company reported annual revenue of $2.7 billion, an overall increase of 8%.
5. Zoho
Category: Customer Relationship Management
Location: Chennai, India
As the global workforce continues to shift to fully remote operations, many businesses are fundamentally forced to adapt to the passage of time. As Google steals the show, the California/India-basedZohoBeyond its unique office suite. Formerly known as AdventNet, the company faced considerable competition in the customer relationship management (CRM) space.
The company's existing software had clear advantages, with the Zoho CRM platform being an all-in-one hub for business workflows. The platform combines sales, marketing, inventory, and human resource management into one convenient cloud-based CRM solution. It also easily integrates with its competitor, G-Suite, for better accessibility and increased business intelligence.
Zoho's impact on the business software market is global; with its world headquarters in Chennai, India, it has become a key development tool for major companies such as Amazon Web Services as they penetrate international markets. More than 50 million customers use the Zoho platform. Notably, the company is offering free subscriptions during the Covid-19 crisis. CEO Sridhar Vembu owns 88% of the company he co-founded, which has projected revenue of more than $5 billion.
6. Pictures
Category: Data Analysis & Visualization
Location: Mountain View, California
Be a data visualization and analytics software companyvivid imageAfter being acquired by Salesforce in 2019, many questioned Marc Benioff's "no software" philosophy. Business intelligence is one of the most important elements of any company's success, and Tableau offers one of the most popular platforms. As Benioff said of the merger: "It's really the best of both worlds for our clients."
Tableau allows users to customize dashboards to effectively visualize and turn data into actionable insights. Like Microsoft Excel and other spreadsheet programs, the platform generates worksheets with customizable charts and tables, providing clear visual views of complex but desirable company data. Now, with the power of Salesforce pushing the platform even further, the growth potential is limitless.
Tableau had over $1 billion in annual revenue prior to the acquisition, and as demand for simple data analysis continues to grow, Salesforce will stay ahead of the competition.
7. Crazy
Category: Data Analysis
Location: San Francisco, CA
Founded in 2003, San Francisco-based Splunk has grown into a leading data analytics company. With Splunk's "Data-to-Everything" core platform, businesses can finally analyze machine-generated big data and turn it into actionable insights. Real-time visibility, enhanced search/navigation, and advanced analytical reporting are just some of the highlights of this dynamic tool that makes information clear and actionable.
Splunk users will soon be able to apply the platform to their Google Cloud infrastructure thanks to a strategic alliance between the two data giants. The ability to ask questions and get accurate answers using current and historical data is an important utility in today's business environment. If data is your most important asset, Splunk gives companies visibility into it, and G-Suite already has over 4 million paying users, you can expect very positive results from this partnership.
Led by CEO Doug Merritt, Splunk has created an enterprise value of more than $30 billion, with annual revenue of more than $2 billion, an increase of nearly 50% over the previous year.
8. Activities
Category: Event Management
Location: Tysons, Virginia
As the world economy shifts to more remote regions,ConteGet ready to move to the forefront of virtual event management. Live concerts, conferences and corporate meetings have moved from boardrooms to ballrooms, and companies are looking for guidance and solutions. Cvent virtual meeting management software integrates with all major video conferencing platforms and offers all other event planning resources. Businesses can create custom professional virtual environments, develop event marketing strategies, and leverage attendance and other data within existing CRM systems. With Cvent, the company can transform its avatar and maximize rewards for each participant.
CEO and founder Reggie Aggarwal runs the company he founded from headquarters in Washington, DC, but Cvent's event management solutions are deployed globally. With over 4,000 employees and a client base of over 30,000, Aggarwal is ready to fully expand its business as required. With a focus on the customer, Cvent appears poised to lead the way in the virtual meeting rooms and conference centers of the future.
9. Mother of Water
Category: Data Management & Backup
Location: Baar, Switzerland
Headquartered in Baar, Switzerland, Veeam is a global leader in IT backup solutions, specializing in physical, cloud-based and multi-cloud storage technologies. Veeam has evolved from a backup and replication tool to a complete data protection solution. In addition, it provides fully automated disaster recovery through Availability Orchestrator. When a disaster strikes, complex processes are automated and activated, and businesses develop a plan for how to proceed. Veeam's intelligent data management tools are simple, flexible, and most importantly, reliable.
In 2020, Veeam was acquired by long-term investment partner Insight Partners at a valuation of $5 billion, and is currently preparing to expand from Europe to North America. Founded in 2006 by Ratmir Timashev and Andrei Baronov, the company is led by CEO William Largent, who has held management positions both inside and outside the company. Prior to becoming Veeam's Vice President, Largent oversaw Applied Innovation, Inc. Veeam software is currently used by more than 375,000 customers worldwide, including alliance partners such as Amazon Web Services and Cisco Systems.
10. Atraciano
Category: Project Management
Location: Sydney, Australia
Australian enterprise software giantAtracianoThe company was founded in 2002 by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar out of pure personal credit cards and a desire to be their own bosses. So in less than two decades, both students have become billionaires with their main platform, Jira. This proprietary software provides end-to-end project management and bug tracking, with the added capability of integrating with IT and incident management. The Confluence team management platform supports collaboration and knowledge sharing across the enterprise in the form of a wiki, providing an easily searchable information repository integrated with the Jira system. With a wide range of cloud offerings, the company's "cloud-first" strategy appears to be paying off.
Atlassian is used by more than 160,000 organizations, including companies as diverse as Carfax and Domino's Pizza. In 2019, the company finally solidified its leading position in the software industry, achieving more than $1 billion in annual revenue. This growing business software company has more than 3,000 employees worldwide. Atlassian has offices in New York, Amsterdam, and Manila.
11.DocumentoSign
Category: Electronic Contract Management
Location: San Francisco, CA
In increasingly distant global markets, there are many contracts that require virtual signatures.document signatureis a San Francisco-based company and a leader in electronic signature and contract software. The company's Agreement Cloud platform provides a suite of programs designed to prepare, execute and manage organizational contracts and agreements. The company also recently acquired Seal Software, which specializes in AI-driven contract data extraction and analysis, further enhancing DocuSign's overall range of capabilities.
Although the company was founded in 2003, the idea grew out of co-founder Tom Gonser's experiences in the early days of the internet revolution in the late 1990s. DocuSign has become the most widely used e-signature software in the world on the ashes of another startup of the same name, DocuTouch. DocuSign Click and ID verification products integrate with existing business databases to make secure and valid contracts easier and more secure.
As of 2020, DocuSign has a market cap of more than $30 billion and is rapidly approaching $1 billion in annual revenue. With physical contracts soon becoming a thing of the past, the company expects continued steady growth. Its partners include tech giants such as Microsoft, Apple and Google, and the company has more than half a million customers worldwide.
12. Mailbox
Category: Cloud Storage and Management
Location: San Francisco, CA
With over 500 million users worldwide, Dropbox is the pioneer and provider of file sharing and storage platforms. Using a freemium business model, the company launched its signature file storage and collaboration platform in 2008 to the forefront of cloud services, offering 2GB of free storage as soon as users sign up. For professionals, Dropbox offers two levels of paid subscriptions with expanded storage and enhanced functionality. After the first year, the company surpassed 1 million registered users.
Since its inception, Dropbox has seen the cloud storage industry grow rapidly, with companies such as Amazon and Google joining it. CEO and co-founder Drew Houston co-founded the company with Arash Ferdowski, and together they have seen it become an industry leader in workplace productivity and collaboration, with a valuation of over $10 billion and quickly surpassing $1 billion in annual revenue .
13. Vieva System
Category: Data Management in Life Sciences
Location: Pleasanton, California
Veeva Systems recognized the need for specialization early on. Today, they offer the best SaaS cloud computing systems purpose-built for the global life sciences industry. With ever-changing regulations, scientific advancements, and market shifts in biotechnology, Veeva strives to maintain a leading position in data management rankings in a rapidly growing market.
There is more business activity in the life sciences than most people imagine; from R&D companies to health systems management in times of crisis, to a wide range of biomedical and pharmaceutical businesses around the world. Veeva offers a suite of applications that can adapt to a variety of evolving use cases, and today operates as a one-stop shop for cloud computing and management.
Peter Gassner, founder and CEO of the Sunnyvale, California-based company, is a recognized advocate for employees inside and outside of Veeva. He oversees the work of 2,500 dedicated employees in offices on five continents around the world. Veeva Systems has the opportunity to continue to be a permanent fixture in life sciences cloud solutions by working with technology partners such as AWS and Microsoft, as well as large pharmaceutical industry players such as Merck and Teva Pharmaceuticals.
14. Test
Category: Cyber Security
Location: Sunnyvale, California
Proofpoint is a maker of enterprise security software that protects networks near and far. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Proofpoint was founded in 2002 by former Netscape CEO Eric Hahn. After the internet company collapsed, Hahn saw an opportunity to develop a suite of applications designed to protect human capital from growing cybersecurity threats. The company started as an email spam detection product and has grown into a comprehensive platform covering all aspects of employee data protection. As threats grow and evolve, so does Proofpoint's suite of cybersecurity solutions.
In 2018, Hahn retired as chairman of the publicly traded company, now worth more than $6 billion, and was replaced by founding CEO Gary Steele. As of 2020, Proofpoint has technology partnerships with tech giants like AWS, IBM, and Splunk, and its SaaS suite is used by more than 5,000 organizations large and small. With annual revenue in excess of $1 billion, Proofpoint is a proven leader in detecting and defending against digital threats.
15. Cape Piedra
Category: Human Capital Management
Location: Santa Monica, California
Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, with offices around the world, Cornerstone is a talent development firm that believes people can achieve anything when given the right opportunities to develop and grow. Cornerstone's workforce development solutions include comprehensive recruiting software, a personalized learning platform, modern training content, growth-focused performance management, and end-to-end management of employee data and insights. Cornerstone software is used by approximately 6,300 organizations of all sizes, with more than 75 million users in more than 180 countries and 50 languages.
In April 2020, Cornerstone acquired one of its largest competitors, Saba Software, announcing a new strategic vision and accelerated innovation program that will help organizations thrive in the face of unprecedented change and transform into resilient, connected enterprises. Cornerstone has taken an important step in this strategic direction, with a renewed focus on product innovation that leverages people data to help organizations and their people reach their potential.
Following the acquisition of Saba, Cornerstone welcomed a new CEO, Phil Saunders, who succeeds founder Adam Miller as co-chairman of the company's board of directors.
16. Quality
Category: Experience Management
Location: Seattle, Washington/Provo, Utah
Founded in 2002, Qualtrics is an experience management (XM) software company focused on improving four core areas of business interactions: customers, people, brand, and product. Beyond basic customer relationship management (CRM), the Qualtrics XM platform measures empirical data within each metric, analyzes execution data through artificial intelligence and machine learning, provides actionable insights and tracks sales improvements.
CustomerXM covers everything customers see and interact with, enabling businesses to stay connected and informed, while EmployeeXM provides the tools to track performance and motivate every team member. Product and brand experience tools improve companies' ability to create and market new ideas based on intelligent data, ensuring consistency and marketability. Qualtrics redefines how businesses use experiences as assets through a single "operating system."
Qualtrics is headquartered in Provo, Utah, and Seattle, Washington, which is home to the skyscraper of the same name. With more than 2,500 employees in offices around the world, the company expects its workforce to continue to grow significantly.
His clients already include some of the most famous brands such as BMW, JetBlue and Under Armour. In 2019, SAP acquired the company for $8 billion, hoping to become a powerful engine for the international software giant's future growth.
17. New Relic
Category: Application Performance Monitoring
Location: San Francisco, CA
a new relicFounded in 2008 and named after its founder Lew Cirne's anagram, Create Observation software for engineering teams to visualize, analyze, and troubleshoot software. New Relic One is an industry-leading cloud-based observability platform that includes a telemetry data platform to ingest, analyze and alert on all metrics, events, logs and traces; Visualize and troubleshoot your entire software stack; and apply intelligence to detect, understand, and resolve incidents faster.
This year, New Relic launched its new observability platform with New Relic One, a suite of products with a clean and intuitive user experience, powerful new features, and simple pricing and packaging, including a free lifetime tier. In addition, the company announced its support for open source software, providing industry-leading tools, integrations and SDKs through open source software. This spring, the company enhanced its AI capabilities to help customers detect, diagnose and resolve incidents more quickly, improving the customer experience. New Relic also announced the addition of Bill Staples to its management team, who joined in January as product manager. With nearly 2,300+ employees in 16 offices around the world, New Relic continues to be the choice of more than 16,000 customers in the observable market.
18. Octa
Category: Identity Management
Location: San Francisco, CA
All six of Okta's services include a single sign-on platform that allows users to log into multiple systems through a single portal. They also provide API authentication services. The company was founded in 2009 by Todd McKinnon and Frederick Kerrest, who previously worked at Salesforce. As of January 2019, Okta has over 100 million registered users. Nordstrom, Jetblue, MGM Resorts International, Major League Baseball and the U.S. Department of Justice are all currently using Okta. Its cloud-based service uses facial recognition and Touch ID technology to keep user data safe.
The company has more than 8,400 customers (up 30% over the same year) and a net retention rate of 121%. Its shares are up 12% over the past month and recently touched a new 52-week high of $213.19. Okta expects to grow 32% in 2021, with projected revenue of $775 million. The company's services are based on the Amazon Web Services cloud. Okta thrives in a highly competitive market; well-known brands offering similar services include IBM Security, Microsoft Azure Active Directory, OneLogin, Salesforce Identity, and Oracle Enterprise SSO.
19. Internal Links
Category: Data Management
Location: New York, NY
Intralinks has been providing financial solutions since 1996. The current focus is on business collaboration and content management solutions, including virtual data rooms (VDR). In 2002, the company developed the world's first VDR system, which allows companies to exchange information in a secure space as part of the due diligence process. It is reported that more than 2.7 million people in 988 Fortune 1000 companies use its products. Headquartered in New York City, Intralinks employs more than 1,000 people around the world, including Europe, South America, Australia and Asia.
Intralinks customers include General Mills, Whole Foods, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs. The company also uses a trademark system of "distributed content nodes". This allows customers to choose where sensitive information is stored, encrypted and indexed; for example, if a US company does not want its information stored abroad, Intralinks can ensure it remains at home. Intralinks expects M&A announcements to grow by 5% in 2020 despite the global economic downturn amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
20. Mulla Software
Category: Integration
Location: San Francisco, CA
SaaS company MuleSoft sells integration software that connects applications, data, and devices. Their Anypoint platform integrates on-premises software, legacy systems, SaaS and many other platforms. The company went public in March 2017 and was acquired by Salesforce for $6.5 billion a year later. Last year, MuleSoft reported hiring more than 1,400 people and 1,600 customers, including Wells Fargo, Siemens, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and Asics.
MuleSoft's Anypoint platform offers a wide range of application programming interface (API) tools, including API Designer, a graphical design tool available to team members; API Manager, where developers can control user access and create policies for APIs; Anypoint Analytics Tracks performance, usage, and other metrics; Anypoint Exchange, where users can store and access documents; CloudHub, a service managed by iPaaS. The world's leading API platform recently announced the release of the new MuleSoft Healthcare Accelerator, a system that will help securely connect electronic medical records to public health data networks.
21. Fresh Works
Category: Commitment to Customers
Location: San Mateo, California
Freshworks offers intuitive customer engagement programs that help companies reach customers across multiple platforms, enabling them to achieve a positive and effective return on investment. They use artificial intelligence technology and cloud solutions to monitor customer touchpoints around the world, opening the door to predictive customer insights for marketing and sales professionals. The company's mission includes accelerating customers' digital transformation and helping companies retain customers for life.
In May, Freshworks hired SaaS finance veteran Tyler Sloat. Sloat, Zuora's former CFO, will join Freshworks' leadership as the company's new CFO. The new hire joined the company shortly after crossing the $200 million mark in regular annual revenue, meaning that figure doubled in just 18 months. Freshworks also recently announced a strategic partnership with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to jointly develop and market sales, support, marketing, customer success and ITSM solutions.
22. Luz
Category: Business Communication
Location: San Francisco, CA
PantsBusiness communication systems use Internet Relay Chat (IRC) applications to keep team members in touch via threaded chat or private messages. In late June, the company rolled out a new feature called Slack Connect, a business-to-business feature that allows businesses to communicate more effectively. This expands your product range from primarily a tool for internal chats to creating external services that can connect businesses while keeping all data and messages secure.
Slack's main competitor is Microsoft Teams, and both companies are seeing increased usage as more people start working from home to avoid exposure to Covid-19. Slack recently entered into a multi-year agreement with Amazon Work Space (AWS), in which AWS has decided to adopt Slack for business communications and will develop new services to help the chat giant increase its scale and capacity. Slack went public in April 2019 at a valuation that soared to $21 billion.
23. Trevelio
Category: Cloud Communications
Location: San Francisco, CA
Software developers can use the Twilio API to perform a variety of communication functions, including sending and receiving text messages and making and receiving phone calls. With Amazon Web Services, Twilio's architecture helps prevent communication outages and outages. The company has also released open-source software such as OpenVBX (which allows businesses to configure phone numbers to receive and forward calls) and Stashboard (a status dashboard written in Python that shows the capabilities of the service).
In March, Twilio's leadership team added two key new members: Steve Pugh joined as director of security, and Glenn Weinstein took over as director of customer services. Shares of the digital communications company have been on a tear this year, rising 76% in May, 11% in June and 7% in the first two days of July. Twilio is partnering with New York City and state governments to facilitate the implementation of the COVID-19 tracing program.
24. Annaplan
Category: Cloud Planning
Location: San Francisco, CA
The subscription-based service sells business planning software and provides data to help companies make business decisions in areas such as human resources and finance. In 2016, their valuation increased by more than $1 billion in a $90 million funding round, establishing unicorn status. Anaplan is one of many cloud-connected companies that appear to be benefiting from the shift to a work-from-home economy due to the global pandemic, with its shares up 12.4% in May.
The company's revenue rose 36.9%, but bookings rose only 10%. The company has a total of 1,600 employees, mainly focusing on senior executives of its client base. Its end-to-end platform is designed to replace tools that do not communicate with each other, such as those from developers such as IBM and Oracle, to eliminate inefficient and costly processes, simplify data processing, and simplify planning and decision-making.
25. Belt
Category: Financial Services
Location: San Francisco, CA
Headquartered in San Francisco,beltFinancial technology enables companies around the world to receive payment for their services. They currently serve the EU, Asia, Australia and Mexico markets. Stripe is mainly used for payment processing, but also provides many other services, such as Atlas, which allows startups to integrate more seamlessly in the United States; terminal, point solutions compatible with credit card readers; Connect, which allows enterprises to create marketplaces, Stripe can be in which facilitates payment processing between buyers and sellers.
Last year, the company raised $100 million in a Series E funding round, valuing the startup at $22.5 billion. In April, Stripe raised $600 million in new funding in its largest funding round to date, helping bring its current valuation to $36 billion. Investors in the final round included Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst and Sequoia Capital. Stripe's customers include Slack, Shopify, Glossier, Amazon, and Under Armour. The company charges customers a 2.9 percent swipe fee and 30 cents per transaction.
26. Workplace
Category: Project Management
Location: Lehi, Utah
Workfront project management software helps companies develop web-based management strategies for issue tracking, document management, work management, time tracking, and project portfolio management. Workfront currently has 670 employees and 4,000 customers in the US, EMEA, 58 of which are Fortune 100. Clients include Comcast, the FDA, Cisco Systems, National Geographic and Cars.com.
In June, Workfront announced it was partnering with email creation platform Stensul to connect and automate its email workflows. The company also announced David Burggraaf as its new chief technology officer. Burggraaf brings to the company 30 years of global enterprise technology experience, including 15 years in senior management. He will oversee operations, security, IT and product engineering as the company continues to grow. Workfront's inaugural annual conference took place at the end of June; the virtual event brought together more than 10,000 business leaders and was a huge success.
27. Smart Leaf
Category: Work Management
Location: Bellevue, Washington
Smartsheet focuses on collaboration and work management through a SaaS platform that can track projects, assign tasks, share documents, and manage calendars through a sheet interface. Tasks are organized using a highly intuitive spreadsheet-like interface and can be sorted by priority, due date, or team member. Users can attach, store, and share files in spreadsheet rows, and changes to shared documents are updated in real time. The platform also includes forums, notifications, and alerts, and integrates with Salesforce, Dropbox, and Amazon Web Services.
Smartsheet is supporting government agencies in their response to Covid-19 by providing the service free of charge and without any future obligations. Nearly 100 federal, state and local governments already use the Smartsheet platform. Smartsheet users totaled 6.75 million at the start of the first quarter, up from 6.3 million at the end of the fourth quarter, when the U.S. outbreak intensified. The company's product team rushed to develop 30 specially designed templates aimed at helping customers manage the crisis and transition to working from home.
28. Stolen
Category: Subscription Management
Location: Redwood Shores, CA
Zuora builds software for businesses to run and manage subscription-based services. Its applications automate billing, pricing and collections, and collect data for revenue recognition and subscription fees. There are four SaaS applications within Zuora's central platform: Zuora Billing, for recurring billing operations; Zuora Collect, for collecting payments; Zuora CPQ, for sales offers for subscription companies; and Zuora RevPro, for revenue automation. The company filed for an IPO in April 2018, raising $154 million, bringing it to market at a $1.4 billion valuation.
Despite global economic trends, subscription companies such as Zuora remain highly leveraged, with revenue growth as high as 9.5% in the first quarter. The company's platform seamlessly orchestrates end-to-end subscription management, serving more than 1,000 companies worldwide. His clients include Rogers, Box, Schneider Electric, Xplornet and Zendesk. Founded in 2007, the company currently employs more than 1,200 people.
29. External systems
Category: Application Development and Administration
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
OutSystems provides a low-code platform for enterprise mobile and web application development. These applications can run on-premises or in the cloud, or a hybrid between them. Low-code has become increasingly popular because it offers an intuitive option that allows developers to build applications using an easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface.
OutSystems' Community Response Program is announced on its website as a way to contribute to the response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. The company, which employs more than 1,200 people, recently pledged to turn "up to 20 ideas dedicated to helping solve global problems" into a viable reality. Project support includes free access to company software during the pandemic and full-time support from community team speakers who train and help development teams bring their solutions to life.
30. cut
Category: Business Expense Management
Location: San Mateo, California
Coupa helps large companies track and better control the resources and money they spend. Its SaaS product manages purchases, invoicing, and expenses by providing dashboards, expense management, and alerts in one place. Coupa is built using Amazon Web Services and based on the Ruby on Rails (RoR) platform.
Notably, in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, World Vision has used its platform to quickly mobilize supplies and assistance around the world. The humanitarian agency uses Coupa to provide hygiene and protective equipment to vulnerable children around the world. Last month, Coupa announced it had finalized a $1.2 billion convertible bond due 2026. The announcement coincides with the company's acquisition of financial management software provider Germany-based Behring Group. Bellin will add advanced payment functionality, intercompany clearing, and cash and liquidity risk management to the Coupa platform. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
31. Parsley
Category: Antivirus Software Development
Location: Irvine, CA
Cylance develops antivirus programs and software that proactively prevent (rather than detect) malware and viruses, making your computer safer by stopping them before they can affect your computer. Cylance was founded in 2012 by best-selling author Stuart McClure, co-founder of security consultancy Foundstone, and Ryan Permeh, and was eventually acquired by BlackBerry in 2019. Cylance's capabilities go well beyond typical virtualization and behavioral analysis, and rely on artificial intelligence to identify and stop attackers.
Cylance may have been the driver of BlackBerry's 20% rise in stock in recent months. Cylance's current clients include financial institution HBOR, healthcare systems such as Phoenix Children's Hospital, glass repair and replacement giant Safelight, and Sydney Opera House, Australia's top tourist destination.
32. Flexible
Category: Search
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Elastic NV builds SaaS solutions for security, search, logging, and analytics. The company is also working on the open source Elastic Stack, which includes Kibana, Beats, Logstash, and Elasticsearch. Tinder, Netflix, Wikipedia, Yelp, Uber, and Lyft in particular use open source technologies. The Elasticsearch community alone has over 100,000 registered members.
Earlier this year, the company's quarterly revenue rose 60% year over year to $113 million. The increase could be due to the company doubling its SaaS revenue. Despite the gloomy global economic outlook, Elastic has shown resilience, leading to consecutive quarters of optimism. At the end of June, Elastic launched Elastic Enterprise Search, a suite of search products designed to simplify enterprise-wide searches for customers and employees. The company is currently valued at more than $7 billion.
33. Zoom in
Category: Business Communication
Location: San Jose, California
Zoom provides video calling and online chat for business, education and entertainment, especially during a global pandemic. Cloud-based peer-to-peer software platforms have grown in popularity since stay-at-home orders were issued around the world. For many companies, it's been a quick and easy way to move to remote work while allowing employees to participate in in-person meetings, even if virtual. For millions of users quarantined at home, it offers a way to connect with friends far away in the social world.
The company went public in 2019, and its stock price rose more than 70% on its first day of listing. The company closed that day with a valuation of $16 billion. As of early 2020, Zoom had more than 2,500 employees. Concerns over security breaches have drawn criticism recently, as has the company's decision to shut down multiple accounts in the U.S. and Hong Kong following human rights protests.
34. Navigation Points
Category: Cyber Security
Location: Austin, Texas
Headquartered in Austin, Texas,navigation pointis a company redefining the role of identity in modern cybersecurity through the SailPoint Protective Identity platform. As many businesses move to remote offices, managing user identities and access is becoming increasingly difficult. With a secure identity platform, companies can give the right user the right access, when they need it. SailPoint offers on-premises and cloud-based solutions to prevent, detect and resolve identity and access management issues through an easy-to-use interface.
The platform easily integrates with Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services, ensuring near-universal availability. Currently, over 1,600 organizations use SailPoint to properly manage and enable their user identities. CEO and co-founder Mark McClain leads the company, celebrating the power of teamwork and driving the growth of more than 1,000 employees. With a market cap of over $2.5 billion and revenues of over $300 million, SailPoint is becoming the number one trusted source for SaaS identity access and identity management.
35. Black line
Category: Financial Process
Location: Los Angeles, CA
BlackLine's cloud solutions are designed to automate the financial close process. Founded in 2001 by Therese Tucker, former CTO of SunGuard Treasury Systems, the company is working to replace outdated Excel software with a suite of accounting-specific tools. Last month, the company partnered with Capgemini to create a finance and accounting team to optimize business efficiency and reduce process costs.
BlackLine accounting automation software is considered an industry leader with more than 3,000 customers including Coca-Cola, Costco, Netflix, Google, and Sirius XM Holdings. Blackline continues to show strong growth trends, growing almost 30% year-over-year over the past year. Its "one-stop" style of providing accounting services has been recognized for improving the efficiency of the review process, preparation of reports and easy access to historical financial data.
36. iCIMS
Category: Recruitment
Location: Holmdel, NJ
At the beginning of 2000Integrated integrated management systemis Colin Day's vision for comprehensive talent search software. Two decades later, the company is the leading cloud-based HR recruitment platform serving more than 4,000 companies worldwide. In the global job market, applicant tracking systems are more important than ever, and iCIMS is a leader in the emerging field of talent marketing.
Even a cloud-based business can't function without people, which is why iCIMS offers a complete suite of recruitment marketing software, giving companies the right tools to attract the perfect team members. The careers page and application system can be easily customized, ensuring a high-quality candidate experience. Additionally, improving communication and engagement can prevent talent from losing momentum. The platform also alleviates issues related to furloughing and rehiring employees, a common problem during the current economic downturn.
As the world becomes less dependent on its employees, the company's new CEO, Steve Lucas, is poised to boldly lead the growth of iCIMS. Lucas successfully led the development of Marketo before it was acquired by software giant Adobe. iCIMS has similar potential, currently generating approximately $250 million in ongoing revenue. iCIMS is headquartered in Holmdel, NJ, with additional offices in Manhattan, UK, Washington DC, and San Jose.
37. Type
Category: IT Automation
Location: Santa Clara, California
Headquartered in Santa Clara, California,typeis the creator of the Ignio platform, a cognitive artificial intelligence solution for automating IT processes and tasks. When repetitive tasks are automated, operating costs are reduced, providing greater financial flexibility. Not to be confused with machine learning (ML), cognitive automation uses ML and AI to increase the speed and scale of a company's business technology. Ignio can also take predictable and proactive actions to prevent problems before they occur and without dedicated human oversight. System health issues are automatically flagged and resolved quickly, reducing network and application outages.
Digitate, led by Global Director Akhilesh Tripathi, is a software development arm of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), one of India's largest IT companies. The software company specializes in solutions for industries such as aerospace, financial technology and media management, but it has always been eager to grow. The company is looking for technology partners, including IBM and Google Cloud.
38. Intercom
Category: Conversational Relationship Program (CRP)
Location: San Francisco, CA
Since 2011, Intercom has been innovating communication between Internet companies and their customers through its newsfeed platform. The San Francisco-based company offers customers more than just chat rooms, allowing businesses to store customer conversations and related data, allowing for more personalized interactions.
When Eoghan McCabe, Des Traynor, David Barrett and Ciaran Lee founded Intercom, their goal was to provide internet companies with their own instant messaging services, bridging the gap between small start-ups and their traditional peers. With a current customer base of over 30,000, Intercom Suite enables businesses to track and filter customer data, attract new customers with personalized messages, and improve their communication channels. By integrating email, in-app messaging and live chat, Intercom has become the standard for online business communication and revenue generation.
Effective July 1, McCabe will be promoted from CEO to president, replacing current COO Karen Peacock. Together, they plan to expand Intercom's services to attract larger customers such as Amazon, Facebook and Lyft. A recent $125 million Series D funding round has spurred the company's continued growth and interface improvements, which they hope will lead to further innovations in delivering communications solutions across the customer lifecycle.
39. Vision
Category: Digital Product Design
Location: New York, NY
InVision has been a leader in digital product design since 2011. The New York-based software company provides an end-to-end digital product design platform that has transformed the way many businesses look and operate. The cloud-based platform helps businesses and professionals create, collaborate and manage development and designs from the prototype stage to the finished product. InVision offers a large ecosystem of tools that integrate with other design toolkits like Sketch, and the Freehand whiteboard tool finds applications in non-tech industries.
Co-founders Clark Valberg and Ben Nadal now lead a remote workforce of 700 who work without physical office space, allowing the company to thrive during the Covid-19 pandemic. No wonder InVision software is used by household names. The iconic designs of companies like Amazon, Spotify, Netflix, and Lyft all benefit from the company's ease of use and collaboration. Already valued at nearly $2 billion, the company is a design unicorn whose growth shows no signs of slowing down.
40. Datadog
Category: IT Monitoring
Location: New York, NY
The cloud is a scary place for many businesses, so Datadog makes system monitoring easier and more efficient. The company's software is designed for modern applications, allowing operators and developers to easily view the entire infrastructure. Capabilities include customizable dashboards with real-time interactivity, in-app communication tools, and a dedicated alerting system to take action before major issues occur anywhere across the stack. Datadog also makes data analysis easy, allowing businesses to display APM, log, and metric data in easy-to-understand visualizations. Network performance monitoring provides insight into network traffic between environments, providing instant insight into performance and dependencies.
Even in a volatile market, Datadog continues to thrive. Proving its worth as a data platform is crucial as the New York-based company's stock soared to record highs during the economic crisis. Under the leadership of co-founders Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc, the company has amassed a customer base of more than 150,000, including major tech companies like Spotify and Facebook, which use Datadog's services to monitor cloud and physical servers. As of 2020, the company has an enterprise value of nearly $2 billion.
41. Eligibility
Category: Cloud Security
Location: Foster City, California
Qualys Inc. is a pioneer and leading provider of innovative cloud IT, security and compliance solutions, serving more than 15,700 active clients in more than 130 countries, including most of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100 lists . Qualys helps organizations simplify and consolidate their business security and compliance solutions on a single platform and embed security into digital transformation initiatives to deliver greater agility, better business outcomes and significant cost savings . nativeQualys Cloud Platformand integrated applications provide 360-degree visibility across on-premises, endpoint, cloud, container, and mobile environments, giving enterprises the visibility needed to assess critical security intelligence and automate comprehensive security auditing, compliance, and protection. application.
Qualys recently launched an innovative VMDR® (Vulnerability Detection, Management and Response) application that enables you to discover, assess, prioritize and patch critical security vulnerabilities in real-time across global hybrid IT environments, all from a single Solution realized. The company will soon roll out the unified capabilities of its cloud platform for endpoint detection and response with Qualys Multi-Vector EDR, which will collect and correlate vast amounts of IT, security and compliance data to provide meaningful context across the entire attack chain and full visibility. Comprehensive, comprehensive risk-based response.
42. Curry
Category: Medical Consulting Management
Location: Irvine, CA
Unlike most employed healthcare providers, independent healthcare providers must think about more than the health of their patients. They run the business, manage the staff, promote the practice, communicate with patients, oversee the billing process and manage expenses. They need a software platform (designed just for them) to help them succeed automatically. And it's affordable.
However, in today's healthcare environment, physicians are being pulled in many different directions. Without the right tools and support, the complexity and management issues they face can distract them from what matters most: patient care. that's wherecurryEnter.
Kareo believes that technology can significantly change the daily lives of doctors, staff and patients. Freestanding practices are the best place to build relationships with patients and provide the most meaningful care.
Kareo's fully integrated platform makes it easy to manage the day-to-day operations of stand-alone clinics, so providers can focus on what matters most: caring for patients. Kareo helps more than 60,000 healthcare providers get paid faster, find new patients, do business smarter and deliver better care. The complete end-to-end Kareo platform offers powerful modules for building and growing a health practice, including clinical care, telemedicine, billing, and patient engagement.
43. Automatic
Category: Web Publishing Software
Location: San Francisco, CA
Automattic is passionate about "making the web a better place," and that goal isn't as far-fetched as it sounds. When developers Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little first launched WordPress fifteen years ago, they couldn't have imagined the impact their blogging platform would have on the entire internet. Since founding Automattic in 2005, Mullenweg has led a revolution in developing open source software and supporting a global workforce.
Now, the San Francisco-based company is fighting for self-publishing freedom on the web, starting with its self-hosted WordPress.com site and growing as it adds innovative WP tools like VideoPress and WooCommerce to its offering of free services. In 2019, Automattic acquired Verizon's once-coveted microblogging platform Tumblr for less than $3 million, further cementing its position as a hub for free online content creation.
Automattic has also grabbed headlines for its innovative "distributed work" approach, becoming an authority on work-from-home strategies. By offering employees extensive job flexibility, Automattic is able to employ 1,200 "automators" in more than 70 countries around the world. Mullenweg even hosts a podcast called "Distributed" where he offers advice on running the internet as a global office.
44. Walk with me
Category: Digital Adoption Program
Location: San Francisco, CA
Founded in 2011, WalkMe provides a service that solves a fundamental technical problem: how? As technology evolves and advances at a rapid pace, regular users may find themselves frustrated exploring new platforms. Thanks to the San Francisco-based company's digital adoption platform, anyone can navigate and operate technology services without needing to be a professional. DAP implements bubble overlays to provide contextual assistance for learning software, websites, and apps. It fulfills a clear need to bridge the gap between users and their technological tools.
This hands-on approach to service has made WalkMe a bona fide unicorn, with annual revenue exceeding $100 million, and the company continues to show signs of growth. Last year, the company raised $90 million in Series G funding, allowing it to expand into regions such as Latin America. As of 2020, WalkMe has served 30% of Fortune 500 companies, with more than 2,000 customers.
WalkMe is led by CEO and Co-Founder Dan Adiki, who believes in the power of complaining. Facing a negative user experience and improving the functionality of the platform, Adika seeks a future where "software meets people".
45. iMedX
Category: Revenue Cycle Management
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
In the modern age of technology, revenue cycle management (RCM) has proven to be key to the continued success of medical practices and professionals, especially during an unprecedented global health crisis.iMedXWork with physician groups and healthcare systems to streamline the end-to-end RCM process. The platform provides technical resources that clinicians consider essential for data storage, analysis, and medical transcription and coding services. Easy-to-use clinical data registry facilitates more informed population health management, with dedicated iMedX staff providing cost-effective professional data extraction services. The platform even offers extensive and up-to-date medical coding training.
The Atlanta-based company is led by CEO Christopher Foley, a position he has held since 2013. The global medical transcription market is growing rapidly, and as healthcare systems adapt to new legal management and application technologies, many RCMs can go from problem to error. iMedX aspires to be the market leader, delivering enhanced solutions trusted by all players in the healthcare ecosystem.
46.
Category: Human Resources
Location: San Francisco, CA
For the past nine years, Gusto has been a leader in HR technology for companies large and small. The company provides cloud-based payroll services to more than 100,000 customers in the U.S. and provides software for employee time tracking, benefits administration, and more general human resource management. Gusto has been praised for the ease of use of its software, making it a popular choice for new business owners running as their own human resources department. Employees can even withdraw funds between pay periods with Gusto Cashout, leveraging modern technology to help today's workforce.
Founded in 2012 as ZenPayroll, Gusto has focused on customer service since its CEO and co-founder, Josh Reeves. Beyond the usefulness of the platform, the company also offers a free product called HR Basics that helps small businesses run without hiring an entire HR department. With more than 500 employees at its San Francisco headquarters, as well as its Denver and New York offices, Gusto's services are in high demand. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company guided clients through the government's Payday Protection Program (PPP), allowing small businesses to approve loans worth more than $1 billion, and providing pandemic-related features.
After nine rounds of funding, the company is valued at $3.8 billion, with Fidelity Management and Research Company and Generation Investment Management as its latest investors. Past investments have come from firms such as Google Capital and Kleiner Perkins, as well as tech titans such as Max Levchin and Kevin Systrom.
47. Changes in trade
Category: Supply Chain Payments
Location: San Francisco, CA
Tradeshift is an industry leader in supply chain payment solutions, founded in 2010 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Serving more than 500 clients worldwide, the company enables companies to digitally connect with suppliers, digitize processes and better manage potential risks. Tradeshift understands the importance of connectivity in today's global economy, which has earned it awards and recognition from the fintech industry.
Although headquartered in San Francisco, business networking giant Tradeshift has its roots in Denmark. Christian Lanng, Mikkel Hippe Brun and Gert Sylvest founded the company after making waves in Europe before moving to Silicon Valley in 2011. Since 2018, after years of raising capital and attracting investors such as Intuit and HSBC, Tradeshift has reached a valuation of $1. billion, cementing its status as a fintech unicorn.
48. Data Starks
Category: Data Management
Location: Santa Clara, California
Sunny Santa Clara, California is home to DataStax, a data management company that provides businesses with easy-to-use and accessible databases. Built on the NoSQL database system Apache Cassandra, DataStax Enterprise provides operational reliability, monitoring and security for web, mobile and IoT applications across multiple data centers and clouds. Whether enterprises need large or small databases, DataStax provides seamless scalability for enterprises relying on hybrid, bare metal or cloud-native systems.
Co-founder and CTO Jonathan Ellis has seen his company grow from its founding in Austin, Texas in 2010 to its current value of nearly $2 billion. Along with CEO and President Chet Kapoor, Ellis leads a team of more than 450 engineers, data architects, and more serving more than 1,100 companies worldwide. Companies such as Capital One, Delta Airlines and Sony rely on DataStax for their operations, and the company expects the already $60 billion database market to grow further.
49. Yongqiao
Category: Crisis Management
Location: Burlington, Massachusetts
Everbridge was founded in 2002 in response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, an emergency that prompted the United States to rethink how best to communicate during emergencies. The company created the industry's most reliable and scalable emergency notification engine, which is now used by businesses and government organizations when public safety is threatened. With Everbridge, agencies can send phone, email and text alerts in real time and snooze alerts after they have been read.
A critical incident management platform helps you manage critical incidents as they occur and assess the risk of incidents as they move geographically. Using modern communication technologies such as geotagging, emergency managers can use their applications to respond and adapt to events as they occur. Everbridge has provided critical services during crises such as natural disasters, shootings and civil unrest.
With offices in Pasadena, California, and Burlington, Massachusetts, Everbridge provides emergency management alerts to more than 5,000 businesses, agencies, and municipalities. Its broad reach reaches more than 550 million people in more than 200 countries, delivering on its commitment to keeping business operations and people safe. Led by CEO Jamie Ellertson, this is a major communications company with a market capitalization of $4.5 billion.
50. Discover Organizations
Category: Business Intelligence
Locations: Vancouver, Washington
Knowledge can make or break a business, especially when market trends are constantly changing. Based in Vancouver, Washington, DiscoverOrg enables companies to use its vast knowledge base to their advantage. B2B intelligence drives the way companies market and sell services, and the DiscoverOrg online platform gives companies across industries the tools to improve lead generation and optimize lead data. Real-time notifications in the OppAlerts system encourage you to increase sales productivity and increase conversions.
In 2019, DiscoverOrg acquired ZoomInfo and adopted its name, further expanding its control over go-to-market (GTM) smart solutions. In 2020, the company raised $935 million in an initial public offering, which caused a stir in the public markets affected by the epidemic. DiscoverOrg Founder and CEO Henry Schuck Challenges Himself to "Define New Possibilities," Leads Company to Billion-Dollar Valuation, Making It One of the Largest Companies in the Pacific Northwest, Joins Sportswear The ranks of giant Nike.
51. Software GFI (Aurea SMB)
Category: Small and Medium Business Solutions
Location: Austin, Texas
More than 60,000 companies worldwide turn to usGFIFor easy deployment of security, collaboration and network management software. GFI's award-winning products, such as Exinda Network Orchestrator, Kerio Control and Connect, GFI LanGuard and FaxMaker, effectively solve the business challenges of SMBs. For even more value, customers choose GFI Unlimited as part of the Enterprise IT Essentials Bundle, which offers a wide range of products at one low price.
Headquartered in the United States, GFI has significant client and development operations in the Americas and throughout Europe. Distributors and reseller partners deliver GFI products to SME customers around the world. GFI is led by Dan Beer and an agile remote team.
52. Website Improvements
Category: Digital Analytics
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Siteimprove bills itself as a "people-centric software company" dedicated to improving web accessibility and simplifying website management. Siteimprove Core uses automation and metrics analysis to examine your website's performance, prioritizing changes as needed. From improving SEO to managing overall website quality and consistency, the service provides a comprehensive web management platform. The digital analytics software market is expected to grow exponentially in the short term, and Siteimprove is one of the industry leaders.
CEO and founder Morten Ebbesen has been at the helm of the company since the beginning, seeing only opportunities to improve Siteimprove's services and products. Over 7,500 organizations, including Visa, Microsoft, and Bayer, have used Siteimprove to improve usability. Founded in 2003 in Copenhagen, Denmark, this international company is a global leader in corporate social responsibility.
53. Benefits
Category: Customer Success Management
Location: San Francisco, CA
Growing businesses understand the importance of attracting a customer base, with consistent customer satisfaction taking a backseat. The widespread adoption of SaaS is forcing companies to consider new customer retention strategies.VistaFocus on updating the field of Customer Success Management (CSM). Since the company's founding in 2009, the Gainsight platform has evolved into a comprehensive tool that ensures the continued success of clients across industries.
Gainsight provides companies with data collection capabilities designed to maintain and improve the customer experience. The platform takes a variety of data from multiple sources and turns it into visible and actionable insights into customer needs. Beyond simple storage, companies can focus on proactively improving the overall customer experience. When customers are satisfied, they are more likely to consider new upsell opportunities before exploring an entirely new system. Gainsight software integrates with any customer relationship management (CRM) system, including the industry-leading Salesforce, making it easy and fast to implement and deploy.
Since 2013, CEO Nick Mehta has led by example, applying the "golden rule" to Gainsight products as well as his own company culture. Your commitment to "be kind to yourself" is refreshing in the competitive world of e-commerce. During his tenure, Gainsight has raised over $150M in funding and is expected to achieve $100M in ARR by 2020. Current users include leading software providers such as Adobe, HP, Marketo, and Workday, illustrating the value of customer success management: an essential factor for any company's prosperity.
54. That is
Category: Human Resources
Location: New York, NY
Namely New York is a well-established provider of human resource solutions for mid-sized companies in the United States. Their platform is a comprehensive human resources department that provides services that benefit both employers and employees, such as payroll and benefits administration. The intuitive interface ensures ease of use, encourages employee engagement and productivity, and gives companies the tools to manage talent properly. Covering everything from implementation, time management and compliance, Viz software saves businesses time and gives managers more opportunities to focus on keeping employees happy.
Since 2019, the company, under the leadership of CEO Larry Dunivan, has worked continuously to ensure customers and employees are satisfied with the workplace and set up for long-term success. More than 500 employees serve a customer base of nearly 1,300 companies worldwide.
55. Avatar
Category: Human Capital Management
Location: New York, NY
Founded in New York in 2005, Avature is a leading developer of human capital management software whose award-winning SaaS model is used by corporations and enterprises. Attracting top talent is critical, and Avature makes it easier than ever to track the best candidates with its market-leading candidate relationship management system. Building a platform that balances the interests of both parties can ensure a better match between employers and job seekers. Many brands and career options have differentiated marketing tools that allow companies to succinctly guide attractive candidates to the best opportunities. Avature Onboard makes it easy to recruit new employees, and performance management features improve employee engagement.
In 2019, Avature's Overall Applicant Tracking System (ATS) won the Brandon Hall Group "Excellence in Technology" award, heralding a bright future for the HCM industry. Founder and CEO Dimitri Boylan rose to prominence as a director of HotJobs.com, an innovator of online job search and a pioneer of the modern employee recruitment engine. Over the past fifteen years, Boylan has grown from a recruiting service provider to an innovator in business management software. Several Fortune 500 companies, including conglomerates such as Cisco Systems and ViacomCBS, use its CRM systems and talent management software.
56. Droy
Category: Data Management
Location: Pune, India
In today's technology ecosystem, data is a valuable commodity that requires as much attention as human and financial resources. Since its founding in 2008, Druva has become a global leader in data protection and management. Its products run on the eponymous Druva Cloud platform, a cloud-native backup system built on Amazon Web Services and available for both physical and virtual servers. Features include cross-platform and SaaS application data synchronization, automated disaster recovery, and integrated ransomware protection.
As companies across industries increasingly migrate their data centers to cloud storage, Druva has grown to over $100 million in ARR and is currently valued at over $1 billion.
CEO Jaspreet Singh and co-founders Milind Borate and Ramani Kothandaraman built Druva from the ground up and expanded operations from Pune, India to a new headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. The move reflects the company's exemplary growth in enterprise data management, an industry worth more than $120 billion.
Currently serving more than 10% of Fortune 500 companies, since becoming a unicorn, the company has partnered with fast-growing cybersecurity provider Fire Eye, further increasing its appeal to businesses looking for security protection.
57. Magic Software Inc.
Category: System Integration
Location: O Yehuda, Israel
Magic Software(MSE) was founded about forty years ago in Israel in an on-premises system-based software environment. Today, the company has grown into a global cloud software provider with some of the largest clients in the world. It provides a myriad of business technology solutions for various industries, including finance, retail, healthcare, and manufacturing. Companies are enhancing their current SaaS offerings with advanced integrations enabled by the Magic xpi integration platform. The FactoryEye platform gives you greater control over every aspect of your manufacturing chain while optimizing and making your data actionable.
With an ARR of over $200 million and a market cap of $540 million, MSE has as much room to grow as the entire SaaS market. Guy Bernstein has been the company's CEO since 2010. With 14 regional offices in more than 50 countries, Magic Software Enterprises works closely with customers and thousands of business partners to accelerate business results.
58.ON24
Category: Virtual Event Management
Location: San Francisco, CA
During the Covid-19 pandemic, more companies are turning to virtual workplaces and harnessing the power of video engagement. With roots in the online business, ON24 is a leader in virtual event management and webinar marketing. Founded in 1998 as Newsource, ON24 has grown from a video distribution hub to a full-featured creative webcast for every industry. The ON24 platform includes a video presentation package that encourages audience interaction and gives creators access to critical new information. Businesses can organize archived videos into playlists, create categories for easy search, and even create entire hubs of on-demand content. ON24 also provides real-time services, which are becoming critical as more and more offices operate remotely.
ON24's major move into SaaS is led by CEO and President Sharat Sharan, a veteran Internet CEO and avid entrepreneur. His company has experienced rapid year-over-year growth, and he recently announced that the company's ARR benchmark has exceeded $100 million.
As a leading online webinar marketing platform, ON24 has a strong workforce of around 500 employees, a number that is growing during times of high unemployment.
ON24 serves more than 2,000 clients worldwide, and its platform delivers more than 1 billion minutes of interaction each year.
59. Spin
Category: Cyber Security
Location: Santa Clara, California
Cyber attacks can come from anywhere, and keeping your IT environment secure is a top priority for any business. For 15 years, Centrify's goal has been to take security beyond the old concept of privileged access by implementing a Zero Trust Privilege approach to identity management.
The company's cloud-based software and services enable enterprises to better manage permissions across their networks. This includes the ability to secure and control user access and control, and to more easily maintain common privilege access management (PAM). By restricting access to accounts, attacks can be stopped more quickly even if there is a privilege violation. Their PAM-as-a-Service is by far the best in the cybersecurity industry.
Centrify CEO Tim Steinkopf is doing his best to keep up with new technologies and stay ahead of the “bad guys” who want to infiltrate systems. An elite cybersecurity firm, Centrify serves 5,000 clients, including half of the Fortune 100 companies. As of 2018, the Santa Clara, California-based company was majority-owned by private equity firm Thoma Bravo and had offices in Utah and Washington state.
60. The Watcher
Category: Data Collection & Analysis
Location: Santa Cruz, California
When Lloyd Tabb founded Looker in 2012, his programming background combined with an entrepreneurial spirit made the perfect foundation for his software startup. Less than a decade later, Looker was acquired by tech giant Google for $2.6 billion and added data-collection apps to its cloud. In addition to a unique data analytics platform, Looker offers customizable dashboards and dedicated customer support. Thanks to a massive partnership, your online data discovery application now has access to a larger database, offering a customer base of over 1,600 customers and the tools to make better decisions.
With Looker, data analysis is no longer limited to SQL experts, as the program transforms information into easy-to-understand visualizations and diagrams. The enterprise SaaS company has hit another major milestone, surpassing $100 million in annual revenue, and is becoming another valuable asset in Google's market share. Business analytics software is becoming increasingly valuable as data remains a critical asset for any business, no matter the size. In addition to Tabb and co-founder/CTO Ben Porterfield, the company is led by CEO Frank Bien.
61. Similar Networks
Category: Data Analysis
Location: Tel Aviv, Israel / London, England, UK
Founded in 2007, LikeWeb provides businesses with the tools they need to better understand the impact their websites have on users. What started as a simple way to compare website content has grown into a comprehensive data analysis platform, available as a free Lite version or as extended commercial software. Both the website and the app are tested for "credibility," allowing the company to make necessary changes to increase engagement. Additionally, users can compare their online resources with others in similar industries, offering targeted solutions to increase traffic and add market value to any online business.
A similar main network shares its headquarters between Tel Aviv, Israel, and London, England, but its services span the globe. The CEO and co-founder of Or Offer continues to lead a team of over 400 people with offices on four continents, and his company is showing positive signs of growth. After raising $42 million in a funding round in 2017, the company has a post-money valuation of more than $800 million.
62. Although
Category: Enterprise Resource Planning
Location: Grand Rossier, Belgium
The benefits of access to open source software have been known for years, and Odoo is one of the most successful examples of an open source business technology model. Odoo software is rooted in the OSS community and has been used by various organizations rather than a proprietary program. Its subscription-based enterprise edition elevates the core platform (which is already an easy-to-use business tool) and adds more features and adaptability. The developer community is constantly updating customization options and the entire collection of modules.
When the company was founded in Belgium in 2005, the software focused on enterprise resource planning (ERP) and continues to lead the industry with e-commerce, billing, and management features. Odoo's ease of use and its OSS origins make it an invaluable tool in higher education, giving institutions access to the most comprehensive range of non-proprietary commercial software.
Founder and CEO Fabien Pinckaers has been innovating enterprise software since the age of 13 and has seen his company grow from a small open source ERM platform to an industry standard used globally. More than 5 million users have benefited from Odoo's free and paid business improvement products. Odoo's presence includes offices in the US, India, Dubai and Hong Kong.
63. Ningtex
Category: Workflow Programming
Location: Bellevue, Washington
As the global standard for process management and automation,NitexCommitted to improving the way people work. Every day, operations experts, change agents, and power users from more than 8,000 commercial enterprises and government agencies use the simplicity, power, and comprehensive capabilities of the Nintex Process Platform to accelerate digital transformation.
In fact, 40% of Fortune 500 companies have standardized on the Nintex platform to manage, automate, and optimize business processes, rapidly digitizing hundreds or even tens of thousands of workflows across the organization. Nintex's on-premises and cloud software solutions are used in all major industries, including banking and financial services, healthcare and life sciences, government and manufacturing. His notable clients include AstraZeneca, Barclays, Boeing, Microsoft, GM Financial, Salesforce and Zoom.
The company's strategy and technology innovations are frequently cited by leading industry experts, including Forrester Research, which named Nintex among the software vendors evaluated in The Forrester Wave™: Widely Deployed Digital Process Automation, Q1 2019 The highest software vendor, Nintex ARR also crossed the $125 million mark in 2018 and is noteworthy in the growing digital process automation market, which is expected to exceed $16 billion by 2025.
64. Kiribati
Category: Money Management
Location: San Diego, CA
Since founding Kyriba in 2003, serial entrepreneur Jean-Luc Robert has served as Chairman and CEO, leading the company to the top of the world of corporate finance. Kyriba's cloud-based financial management software has become the standard, with more than 2,000 organizations benefiting from its ease of use, advanced visibility and enhanced financial control. Robert's company uses an "active fluid network" to connect systems, data and applications to keep the company moving.
In the global financial ecosystem, risk assessment and management are critical. Kyriba's cloud-based SaaS platform enables institutions to mitigate the risks associated with the foreign exchange (FX) market. It also offers comprehensive security and fraud prevention measures that can limit the access of would-be hackers. Active liquidity helps drive overall growth when a company's funds are safe and risks are minimized. The software also provides a complete, real-time view of your organization's entire financial system, helping you make better decisions.
Kyriba has been an award-winning industry catalyst for 20 years. In 2020, Global Finance magazine named the company "North America's Most Innovative FinTech Company."
The new payment network suite provides solutions to today's challenges of cloud migration and connecting with global banks. Headquartered in San Diego, California, Kyriba serves more than 2,500 clients worldwide and generates more than $100 million in annual revenue. The company owns diverse organizations such as Spotify and The New York Times.
65. Logical addition
Category: Data Analysis
Location: Redwood City, CA
As organizations continue to rely on external applications, the importance of immediate analysis and immediate response increases. Access Sumo Logic, a cloud-based business platform for collecting, managing and analyzing company log data. To prevent failure of "critical" applications and services, the entire IT infrastructure can be monitored from anywhere. Sumo Logic tools use machine learning analytics to identify and predict anomalies before they trigger a crisis. Sumo Logic also improves your business intelligence by making your data easier to see and understand. With a better understanding of customer engagement, companies can quickly adjust and improve services to identify and attract new customers.
Sumo Logic, one of the world's most powerful automated data analysis companies, was founded in 2010 by self-proclaimed data experts Christian Beedgen and Kumar Saurabh, and has become a formidable player in Silicon Valley. His notable clients include The New York Times, The Clorox Company, and Viacom, among others. The company expects further growth in the coming years.
66. Salary scale
Category: Payroll and Data Software
Location: Seattle, Washington
Regardless of job market conditions, PayScale provides essential salary comparison and tracking services across multiple industries and occupations. The Seattle, Washington-based company has been providing instant payroll information to individuals and businesses since 2002. Not only can individuals assess their own professional worth, but companies can also accurately assess their own compensation practices.
PayScale has created a database of over 54 million compensation profiles using information from crowdsourced and corporate sources, making it easy to implement compensation changes even in tough economic times. The company's new CEO, Scott Torrey, plans to massively scale PayScale, which has crossed the $100 million ARR mark. PayScale is valued at $325 million after a new majority investment from Francisco Partners. Current clients include major corporations such as T-Mobile, Dish Network, UnitedHealthcare, and Time Warner.
67. Congas
Category: Document Management
Location: Broomfield, Colorado
Conga has provided Salesforce.com with sales, reporting, and document generation tools since its founding in 2006. Its software automatically creates Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Adobe PDF files from Salesforce.com data sources. Conga eliminates manual paperwork and time-consuming administrative tasks by simplifying document creation and organization, so employees can be more productive elsewhere.
Late last year, Conga announced it was opening a new office in Paris and launched a massive hiring drive after bookings rose 200% year-on-year. Conga recently announced that it will merge with Apttus. Conga's digital document transformation platform will join forces with Apptus' quote-to-cash transaction solution to create a digital transformation powerhouse for businesses around the world. Conga's clients include Qualcomm, Hilton Worldwide, New York State Health Foundation, Sony Electronics and T-Mobile.
68. sixteen
Category: Business Analysis
Location: New York, NY
The world's leading business analytics software company, now headquartered in New York City, was founded in Tel Aviv in 2004. Its integrated back-end technology pulls data from multiple sources, enabling an intuitive front-end product with an easy-to-navigate dashboard for customers to access across devices.
Sisense recently made headlines for achieving gender parity in its core operations team, a goal most tech companies still fall short of. Appoints Ashley Kramer (of Alteryx) as Chief Product and Marketing Officer, Shelly Landsmann (most recently at Microsoft) as Vice President of International Sales and Global Alliances, Sarah Ward (formerly of MongoDB) as General Counsel, At Head of the Company's Operations, The executive branch is currently made up of 50% women.
The acquisition of Periscope Data last May brought Sisense more than $120 million in recurring revenue, and the company now employs more than 900 people. A $100 million funding round in the first quarter of 2020 boosted the company's valuation by more than $1 billion, cementing its unicorn status.
69. Bakers Guild
Category: Social Media Marketing
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Socialbakers Marketing Suite helps influencers and organizations that rely heavily on social media presence develop competitive insights, optimize and manage advertising, and track brand conversations across multiple social media platforms. They also offer consulting services on their platform, helping users measure fan growth, monitor the performance of industry leaders, and plan and publish content.
Deep learning algorithms put them one step ahead of the competition, helping users identify the best content to post to grow their brand. They recently released a report on the state of influencer marketing, focusing on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Instagram models and specialty retailers. They found that ad usage fell 37% between April 2019 and April 2020, with micro-influencers seeing themselves as a more interesting product than a million followers. Armed with information like this, Socialbaker is helping those whose income depends on likes and followers create marketing strategies that will still work in the pandemic economy. As the work-from-home industry is able to continue to gain popularity long after the lockdown ends, social media marketing software will continue to grow.
70. Pager service
Category: IT Management
Location: San Francisco, CA
Founded in 2009, the U.S. cloud computing software company uses machine learning and automation to alert users of power outages and outages. PagerDuty runs as a standalone service or integrates with an organization's IT systems and is used by major brands such as GE, Vodaphone, American Eagle Outfitters, and Box.com.
The company filed with the SEC for an initial public offering last March and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in April 2019. The company recently updated its toolset to include more analytics and automation. Its intelligent triage system simplifies IT incident management by aggregating signals from nearly 400 tools that monitor, track and report data in context. This enables IT teams to increase productivity by eliminating many manual tasks.
A year after going public, PagerDuty's stock price is up 140%. FactSet expects 2021 revenue to exceed $200 million.
71. Digital Ocean
Category: Cloud Computing
Location: New York, NY
Headquartered in New York City with data centers around the world, DigitalOcean provides cloud services that allow applications to scale and deploy to multiple computers simultaneously. The world's third-largest web hosting company recently closed a $50 million Series C round led by current investors Andreessen Horowitz and Access Industries, bringing its valuation to $1.15 billion.
The company serves more than 500,000 customers worldwide, two-thirds of which are located outside the United States. It specifically serves small businesses and entrepreneurs for whom other marketplace options may be too expensive. This niche market consistently generates $300 million in revenue.
As its infrastructure expanded, across national borders and continents, DigitalOcean encountered scalability, reliability, and performance issues in its Layer 2 routing model. They have since migrated to layer 3 to ensure no data loss during redirection. This transition will last through most of 2020.
72. Liquid net
Category: WWW Hosting
Location: Lansing, Michigan
Founded in Lansing, MI in 1997red perfectis an industry leader in cloud software and solutions for SMB websites, online stores, mobile and web applications, and the designers, programmers, and agencies that create them. Known for efficient managed services and exceptional support, the company has grown into a family of brands that enable online professionals around the world to create and transact online with confidence. We built Liquid Web to provide products, services, and support designed specifically for the mission-critical websites, stores, and apps of small and medium businesses, and the designers, developers, and agencies that build them. A broad portfolio of cloud software and services means we have a product to suit every project. Managed services mean you can rely on our trained experts to give you the security, speed and reliability you need. Our nearly 600 staff provide the face-to-face human support that SMBs crave. We do our best to develop our range of services to meet the changing needs of professional clients who use the Internet.
Covid19 has shown us that our IT spending needs are growing in the colocation and digital and e-commerce services sectors of our small and medium-sized spaces. This demand is driven by organizations moving online, the shift to remote work, the rise of telehealth, and the proliferation of e-learning and subscription services. The pandemic has also shown the importance of business continuity and disaster recovery solutions.
73. Zavonia
Category: Data Management
Location: Durham, North Carolina
Headquartered in Durham, North Carolina,ZaloniProvide data management software. Arena's DataOps platform simplifies data pipelines through proactive cataloging, automated inspection, and self-service consumption, helping businesses leverage growing and complex data streams in more useful and insightful ways while reducing your costs. Arena provides multi-cloud data management and works with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure for easy integration with existing networks.
The company's platform is a powerful tool across multiple industries including financial services, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, and telecommunications, and is used by companies such as Alexion, Nuveen, Bremer Bank, TMX Group, and others. Founded in 2007 and led by CEO Susan Cook, the company specializes in the sale and positioning of technology solutions in the growing enterprise data management ecosystem.
74. Data Cube
Category data analysis
LocationSan Francisco, California
Founded in 2013 by the founders of Apache Spark, Databricks is an open source distributed computing platform that provides customers with automated cluster management. They recently released a data lake analytics tool called Delta Engine, which they claim is eight times faster than Apache Spark. The company also just acquired Redash, which works with data scientists and analysts to create unique dashboards around their data for optimal visualization. Mozilla, Soundcloud, and Atlassian are current Redash customers.
Virgin Hyperloop is currently using Databricks AI to accelerate data processing as it works to create next-generation travel solutions while managing infrastructure and related policies. Databricks raised $250 million last February and another $400 million in October 2019. The company has grown rapidly since its founding in 2013 as a laboratory project at UC Berkeley.
75. Titan Service
Category: Customer Relationship Management
Location: Glendale, CA
ServiceTitan develops cloud-based mobile software for plumbing, electrical, and HVAC companies, helping them deliver customer reporting, CRM, smart shipping, and market automation services. Last year, they were ranked No. 123 among the fastest-growing companies in the United States on the 2019 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list.
The full-service provider offers mobile solutions for service technicians and integrates with QuickBooks and Sage Intacct to help businesses monitor accounting and truck rolls on the same platform. Last month, they acquired Buffalo, New York-based Pointman, a technology company that combines operations management software with analytics, feedback and even contractor training. The CEOs of both companies are confident that Pointman's current 6,000 active users will be able to seamlessly transition to the new platform in the coming months.
Ara Madhessian and Vahe Kuzoyan founded ServiceTitan in 2012 to help their businessman parents (both Armenian immigrants). Today, the company has more than 900 employees in California, Atlanta, and Armenia, and 4,000 customers in the United States and Canada.
76. BambusHR
Category: Human Resources
Location: Lynden, Utah
BambooHR provides companies with an intuitive dashboard through which clients can use an applicant tracking system for potential employees and a benefits tracking tool for current employees. In 2019, PC Magazine noted that the company offers a "solid set of features and an easy-to-use interface," adding that those are reasons enough to "place it at the top of our picks for best PC software list." . resource.
BambooHR recently partnered with TazWorks, a background check technology platform. The partnership will give BambooHR users access to a vast network of background check agencies to streamline the hiring process and allow employers to pre-screen candidates before interviews begin.
BambooHR has also earned a reputation as a good company, as most employees are paid and employees are strongly encouraged to work no more than 40 hours per week. They even have a unique "paid time off" policy to combat burnout, where employees are reimbursed for part of their vacation expenses.
77. Hurry up
Category: Cloud Computing
Location: San Francisco, CA
Fastly's edge computing and content delivery network (CDN) help customers build faster websites, videos and applications in a world where business and entertainment are increasingly conducted online. Fastly's stock price rose 320% in the three months in the spring, a direct reflection of today's world's hunger for a well-functioning website. Fastly added nearly $6 billion in market cap in 60 days, surpassing other emerging tech companies like Etsy and Wayfair.
Fastly's customers include Github, TikTok, Shopify, and Slack, all of which have seen significant growth in usage since safer-at-home ordering began during the COVID-19 pandemic. No wonder Fastly is doing so well with a growing client base. The company made Slack help the world transition to working from home and has seen TikTok transform from a popular social network for teens into an unlikely platform for politics and change. Last year, the company's sales hit $200 million and are expected to grow more than 40% this year.
78. SnapLogic
Category: Cloud Integration
Location: San Mateo, California
Cloud-based integration is a fast-growing business as companies move from on-premises networks to increasingly digital workplaces.snapshot logicProvides an integration platform as a service (iPaaS) purpose-built for next-generation application and data integration. Connect data and applications across the enterprise quickly and easily with SnapLogic's low-code, AI-powered platform. Users across all departments of the company can create, monitor and manage their own data pipelines through an intuitive self-service cloud interface without the need to monitor technical assistants.
Founded in 2006 in San Mateo, California, SnapLogic Founder and CEO Gaurav Dhillon leads the company's overall strategy, operations and growth. As a leader in integration and automation solutions, SnapLogic has strong relationships with technology partners including AWS, Microsoft Azure, SAP, Workday, Salesforce and Snowflake. His impressive client list includes leaders from various industries and geographies, including Adobe, AstraZeneca, Box, Emirates, Groupon, Schneider Electric and Wendy's.
79. Create
Category: Business Process Management
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Creatio's creators say that "in today's business ecosystem, everyone is a programmer" and they have a platform that allows them to realize this idea. Studio Creatio (formerly bpm'online) is a low-code development platform that combines business process management (BPM) and customer relationship management (CRM) in one easy-to-use dashboard. It allows companies large and small to automate their ideas in a way that is usually limited to professional IT departments.
Dynamic case management tools enable users to understand client needs and learn how to best serve them. The software also ensures that the drawing and application development process is easy for non-IT professionals. Studio Creatio even offers ready-made templates for your marketplace, designed to enhance every aspect of sales, marketing, productivity, and HR tasks. Retail users can create, manage and deploy loyalty applications, while financial institutions can fully manage the new customer experience. The possibilities for customization are enormous, making Creatio software solutions extremely flexible in many industries.
Founded in Boston, MA in 2002, Creatio is led by CEO and Managing Partner Katherine Kostereva, who has led the company's growth from a five-person start-up to an industry-leading provider of CRM and process management solutions. Creatio software solutions are used by companies such as Bayer, L'Oreal and Visteon, and are adopted by companies in 110 countries.
80. Mendis
Category: Low Code Development
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
The low-code software platform was founded in Rotterdam in 2005 before moving its headquarters to the US. Use model-based visualization software to test, develop, and deploy applications. Siemens acquired Mendix for $730 million in 2018, and the company is now working with Clearvision as its official solution provider. The association will provide Mendix with support in the form of training, consulting and project contractors.
Part of Mendix's mission is to help businesses achieve their digital goals, many of which have been accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic and the need to work and transact online. Mendix helps clients achieve this by maintaining high levels of safety and quality, and currently serves more than 4,000 companies worldwide.
Mendix helps companies perform numerous tasks that would otherwise consume valuable man-hours and costly resources. Their low-code system can handle a high volume of contracts, which is invaluable to many clients faced with high-volume virtual projects.
81. work
Category: Work Management
Location: San Francisco, CA
Asana, founded in 2008 by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and former Facebook and Google engineer Justin Rosenstein, is an app that helps organizations collect, track and manage projects program. The software service improves collaboration and team management by allowing users to share tasks, set due dates and delegate work through desktop or mobile applications.
The company recently announced an integration with Microsoft Teams, with the two platforms working together to make task management easier. Teams calls will now be trackable and actionable tasks in Asana, with customizable notifications to alert users of project changes and development.
The combination of workflow app and team management app came as Teams added 31 million daily active users (DAUs) in a month, a direct result of the need for virtual collaboration brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic. Asana's tools can benefit projects ranging from small teams to large strategic initiatives. Currently, they have over 75,000 clients in 195 countries.
82. Plato
Category: Business Intelligence
Location: Chiasso, Switzerland
Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Chiasso, Switzerland, and Boston, Massachusetts, this business management (BI) and business performance management (CPM) software company is one of the oldest software companies on our list. Board Toolkit is designed to help businesses increase productivity while reducing costs by implementing multidimensional analysis, dashboards and reporting, planning and forecasting, and a host of other tools.
As the COVID-19 pandemic began to gain momentum in early April, Board offered its customers and partners free access to its e-learning platform, which will be available through the end of 2020. The platform includes exercises with over 130 videos and plenty of content so users can improve their skills at home during quarantine. The pandemic hasn't slowed down the company's global expansion plans, which just opened a new office in Toronto. Board's impressive client list includes soft drink rivals Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, the U.S. Navy, Volkswagen, Puma, Mitsubishi Electric and Telegraph Media Group.
83. Son Kanapova
Category: Database
Location: Santa Clara, California
Couchbase provides customers with a multi-cloud database, enabling them to run mission-critical applications on any cloud. Businesses can choose to use Couchbase as a fully managed service, or as part of a customer managed option for more control. Couchbase exists in every corner of our lives, and its customers include major brands such as American Express, Disney, eBay, LinkedIn, Tesco, Verizon and United, and this is just the tip of the iceberg.
The company recently managed to raise $105 million in venture capital funding, making it one of the tech companies seemingly immune to the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic. During the Covid-19 pandemic shutdown, they continued to raise large sums of money with an oversubscribed Series G round. The round was led by GPI Capital, with participation from some existing investors. Its valuation has not been disclosed but is estimated to be between $500 million and $1 billion. Couchbase currently has about 500 customers, including nearly one-third of the Fortune 100 companies.
84.Telecommunications company
Category: Marketing
Location: San Diego, CA
Tealium has specialized in enterprise tag management systems and marketing software since Mike Anderson, Ali Benham and Olivier Silvestre founded the company in 2008 after collaborating on WebSideStory. Tealium is recognized as one of the best places to work in San Diego and listed by Forbes as one of America's Most Promising Companies.
New machine learning tools available in the Tealium Predict ML platform open up a whole new world for clients to use consumer data to improve customer experience and increase revenue. Businesses can use Tealium to track customer loyalty programs, purchases, renewals, and impressions to determine which customers should be added to marketing campaigns or targeted for personalized website offers.
Last May, the company raised $55 million in a Series F round led by Silver Lake Waterman. Also participating in the round was ABN AMRO, Statement Partners, Bain Capital, Georgian Partners, Parkwood, Industry Ventures and Presidio Ventures. Tealium is currently valued at $850 million.
85. Smart Bear
Category: IT Management
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
SmartBear software provides a wide range of IT tools for API support, code collaboration, software testing, monitoring and code optimization. Founded in 2009, the company has offices in Boston, Florida, Tennessee and Texas. Current clients include Honda, American Red Cross, Adidas, National Geographic, Canon and Google. Such a wide range of customers reflects the versatility of its software and the ability to customize the product to individual business needs.
SmartBear currently has 7.1 million members and users at more than 22,000 companies in 194 countries. The software testing platform has acquired four other companies in recent years, including Finnish DevOps organization BitBar and behavior-based development (BDD) firm Cucumber Ltd. SmartBear has implemented more artificial intelligence into its products and is willing to integrate its own tools with whatever platform its customers already use. With dozens of tools and solutions on his site, it's easy to see why his client list spans everything from healthcare to footwear and pretty much everything in between.
86. Confirmation
Category: Data Management
Location: Mountain View, California
Founded in 2007, Egnyte provides customers with a cloud platform for enterprise file sharing and synchronization, as well as collaboration, storage and sharing capabilities. Its content services platform focuses on content management, remote work, compliance and content intelligence. Egnyte offers a long list of business and team plans, broken down primarily by office size, and fully customizable to suit individual business needs.
Backed by venture capital, the company has 16,000 customers and $100 million in regular annual revenue. More recently, they've been emphasizing secure file-sharing options and honing in on how to help the influx of remote workers into the COVID-19 economy. Its tools to help digitize business processes are also popular, as many companies have had to do away with physical records entirely while employees shelter at home. Specifically, Egnyte enables organizations to detect threats and gain insight into vulnerabilities, helping them manage risk in the cloud.
87. bright
Category: Collaboration
Location: South Jordan, Utah
Lucid Software's mission is to help customers connect the dots and bring great ideas to life. They achieve their mission through the Lucidchart and Lucidpress platforms. Lucidchart helps companies innovate by configuring charts and data visualizations, enabling employees to collaborate in a visual workspace. Lucidpress is a brand management and design platform that provides clients with the tools to bring their stories to life through marketing and design.
The company, which has raised a total of $166 million to date, recently closed a $52 million round led by ICONIQ Capital, with participation from Meritech Capital, Spectrum Equity and new investor Cross Creek. They have 27 million users in 180 countries, including 99% of the Fortune 500 companies. Customers who use Lucid Software to optimize their businesses include industry leaders such as Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, Amazon Web Services, and Atlassian.
88. Computerization
Category: Marketing Intelligence
Location: New York, NY
Datorama, a marketing analytics platform from parent company Salesforce, uses AI-powered technology to allow customers to collect all marketing data in one place. With an attractive and intuitive interface, users can easily visualize data and customize dashboards that can be shared with the team.
Salesforce recently announced two new marketing tools in the Datorama platform that improve organizations' visualization and simplify data preparation. The new Coordinate will help marketers achieve more accurate data analysis through improved sorting and enrichment. Data Canvas will help companies design custom interactive dashboards that can be shared with teams for richer insights.
Datorama's new tool allows users to pull data from a variety of sources so marketers can improve future campaigns and customize them across geographies, business units and product lines.
89. Full exposure
Category: Identity Management
Location: Denver, Colorado
FullContact is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, and also has offices in Riga, Latvia; Dallas, Texas; Cochin, India; and Tel Aviv, Israel. The privately held company primarily focuses on real-time APIs and identity solutions. Their cloud software suite is available to developers, businesses and brands. In 2018, they acquired Contacts+, a mobile contact management company.
Last year, the company's India office was named a "Best Place to Work" by the GPTW Institute. This may come as no surprise to employees who have had a "paid time off" policy since 2012. Each employee receives $7,500 per year for vacation of their choice, as long as they commit to being off work and not working during their absence.
They recently launched 3 new privacy solutions: Safe Haven, Private Identity Sharing, and Privacy Compliance. Safe Haven is an encrypted environment that obfuscates and stores data by removing personally identifiable information. Private identity sharing allows brands, portfolios, publishers and manufacturers to communicate through privacy-protected relationships. Privacy compliance enables companies to consolidate customer data assets in real-time, securely, and privately.
90. Tube Drive
Category: Sales Authorization
Location: Tallinn, Estonia
Pipedrive is a cloud-based SaaS company headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia and New York, NY, with offices around the world. Its web and mobile application is a customer relationship management (CRM) tool designed to increase business productivity and ultimately increase sales. The company currently has more than 500 employees and more than 90,000 customers worldwide. They have raised over $90 million in venture financing, primarily from Bessemer Venture Partners, Paua Ventures, Atomico, and Rembrandt Venture Partners.
The world's #1 CRM software company recently announced Raj Sabhlok, former president of enterprise SaaS application Zoho, as its new CEO. He brings more than 20 years of technology leadership to Pipedrive. As their 10th anniversary approaches, the companies also plan to introduce several new features: a vertical navigation system to improve customer efficiency, email marketing automation tools, customizable sales reports with interactive dashboards, live chat, real-time and website visitor tracking tools and suite of tools for optimizing quotes, contracts and proposals.
91. Earthquake
Category: Data Management
Location: San Diego, CA
Seismic is a San Diego-based data management company that develops software that updates information in real time so customers and employees can access the most relevant data. The Seismic platform is fully customizable to provide clients with the technology that best grows their business.
As sales teams learn how to transition to a larger online presence in the face of stay-at-home orders caused by the global pandemic, it's more important than ever for customers to have customized solutions to navigate the new territory. This week, the San Diego-based startup was named a market leader by Action Research for the second year in a row. They're known for their growth strategies, and they saw one of the ways the 2019 Percolate acquisition paid off.
More than 600 organizations turn to Seismic for solutions to help them sell. Notable names include IBM, Quest Diagnostics, and American Express. The company currently employs more than 900 people across 14 offices.
92. Zoom information
Category: Business Information
Locations: Vancouver, Washington
Founded in 2000, this SaaS subscription company currently maintains and sells access to databases of personal and business information. It is an integrated cloud-based platform that sells information to marketers to help them find more customers. The company uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to pull data from millions of online sources and update all data in real time.
ZoomInfo listed on the Nasdaq earlier this month with more than 60% trading volume on its first day, in stark contrast to the steep stock declines many companies have experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic. ZoomInfo seems to be unaffected by the economic crisis, and its stock price rose from $21 to $34 in just a few hours. As of the close of the day, the company was valued at about $13.4 billion.
ZoomInfo's IPO proved to be the largest in the history of the Portland metropolitan area. The company's valuation is second only to another company in the industry: Nike. His office has only 560 employees, but it's sure to have a positive impact on the surrounding economy, proving it's a lucrative area for start-ups.
93. Session table
Category: Customer Success
Location: San Francisco, CA
When CEO Tiago Paiva co-founded Talkdesk with Cristina Fonseco, their goal was simply to change the customer service industry. Together, the two Portuguese tech entrepreneurs transform call center software into an end-to-end platform that helps customers succeed. By equipping customer service agents with modern software tools that ensure a positive experience every time, companies can get rid of legacy customer service systems that are no longer useful. Customer support costs are also reduced due to increased productivity and integrations with other must-have platforms like Salesforce, Zendesk, and Slack.
Talkdesk Cloud CX is the first comprehensive contact center platform that offers a suite of applications designed to improve customer service. Customer Engagement allows end users to communicate the way they prefer, whether through an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system or a one-on-one conversation with a professional agent. Employees use desktop and mobile platforms that include personal and quality management programs to ensure the highest quality interaction with each customer. Talkdesk also offers advanced analytics to provide businesses with insights to improve their overall contact center operations. With Cloud CX, customer service agents can operate from anywhere while ensuring the best possible service for everyone involved.
The company serves more than 1,800 users in 70 countries around the world and has become a unicorn with $150 million in annual revenue. CEO and co-founder Tiago Paiva has been the driving force of the company since its inception, overseeing the workforce as it grew from 10 members to nearly a thousand. In addition to its headquarters in San Francisco, Talkdesk has offices in several cities in Portugal, as well as in Spain, Australia and the United Kingdom.
94. Celint
Category: Hacking and Law Enforcement
Location: Beverly Hills, CA/Dublin, Ireland
CelintSmartFlow Compliance Solutions was founded in 2014 with the mission of solving the software piracy problem that software producers have been fighting individually for years. Government initiatives, copyright and protection strategies have largely failed to stop billions of dollars worth of intellectual property being stolen.
Cylynt's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology for software monetization, license enforcement and anti-piracy protects the intellectual property of the world's leading software companies, Users turn into users to increase revenue. paying customers.
The company's data-driven software approach helps clients make informed business decisions, resolve licensing issues and protect clients from unfair competition. Cylynt's flagship product, SmartFlow Enterprise, collects accurate telemetry data, provides sales and business insights, and organizes, analyzes and interprets this data to gain meaningful market insights and generate high-quality leads. The Cylynt License Compliance Platform increases productivity, reduces operational costs and prevents downtime by preventing malware attacks and protecting brand and reputation.
Cylynt is the brainchild of co-founders Ted Miracco, who has 30 years of experience in defense electronics, electronic design automation, and cybersecurity, and Chris Luijten, who has 15 years of experience in anti-piracy and software compliance enforcement . The company has offices in Los Angeles, California and Dublin, Ireland.
95. Selling the Attic
Category: Sales Engagement
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Buyer-seller interactions are measurable and create actionable metrics that can make or break a business sale. Atlanta, Georgia is home to SalesLoft and its industry-leading holistic sales engagement platform. It complements your CRM program to provide a comprehensive sales experience for SMBs and start-ups. Dashboards are enhanced with intelligent integrations with other leading platforms, including Salesforce and LinkedIn Sales Navigator, to power strategy with advanced analytics and greater insight. With SalesLoft, stronger customer relationships mean faster revenue growth.
The cloud-based platform allows merchants to build channels, manage transactions and attract customers from one place. At every stage of the revenue lifecycle, sales departments can create and maintain useful connections through a variety of tactics, including email marketing and social media engagement. Automated "pacing" involves matching processes to established winning strategies, freeing reps to focus on improving customer relationships. Companies can also design automations to respond to CRM health scores, assist with expansion, upgrades, and updates, and maintain a positive overall customer experience.
SalesLoft was founded in 2011 by Kyle Porter and Rob Forman, who run the company according to five core values emphasizing teamwork, customer obsession, and overall optimism. These ideas create what the Atlanta Journal-Constitution calls an "upper-middle-class" workplace in Georgia's largest city. In 2019, the company received $70 million in financing led by Insight Partners at a valuation of $600 million.
96. Education
Category: Learning Management
Location: New York, NY
Amid the global health crisis, online learning has become the new normal for students and faculty alike, making learning management systems (LMS) more important than ever. Founded in New York in 2009, Schoology is a cloud-based learning, classroom coordination and social media platform that brings teachers, students and families together. Schoology makes online education easy for everyone involved by creating a collaborative environment that gives students the same opportunities to succeed as they do in the brick-and-mortar classroom.
Schoology offers tools for creating engaging learning materials, lesson design and lesson plan implementation, and student assessment, all within a modern interface. The platform integrates with other must-have applications such as Google Drive, Blackboard, Dropbox, YouTube, and more to create an educational ecosystem that supports collaboration among teachers, administrators, students, and educational publishers.
In 2019, PowerSchool acquired Schoology, a leader in educational technology for K-12 schools with more than 45 million students and counting. Together, they provide tools to teachers and students around the world, generating as much as $500 million in revenue. Powered by a partnership with PowerSchool, the school looks a lot like the classroom of the future.
97. Active activities
Category: Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Chicago-based ActiveCampaign has become an innovator in customer relationship management (CRM) software with its category-defining customer service automation (CXA) platform. After a successful start as a software consulting firm, ActiveCampaign has developed one of the most valuable tools available for small and medium business (SMB) marketing solutions. Automation is in the hands of the user thanks to a unique feature called "Automation Recipes", which are customizable templates that provide more focus and better functionality. These "recipes" explain tasks and strategies that may have been overlooked or considered too difficult to implement, creating new sales and opportunities for clients. Ultimately, the goal of the software is to provide the best possible experience for each customer.
The ActiveCampaign platform integrates with Salesforce, Shopify, and WordPress, as well as other existing CRM tools, to use machine learning to combine and analyze business data to provide better answers to tough questions. However, it's task automation that sets ActiveCampaign apart, offering advanced sales, marketing, implementation and management tools. The platform automatically alerts businesses of potential customer churn, hoping to keep existing businesses active and happy.
CEO Jason VandeBoom founded ActiveCampaign in 2003 and has been a guiding force on the company's ascent to the top of the cloud software market. He led a team of over 550 people with offices in Chicago, Indianapolis, Indiana, Sydney, Australia, and Dublin, Ireland, creating an industry-acclaimed workplace. The company has grown to $90 million in annual revenue and serves more than 100,000 clients worldwide.
98. Hummingbird
Category: Data Management/Management
Location: New York, NY
Data has quickly become one of the most valuable resources in any organization, and when used correctly, it can improve operations, increase revenue, and strengthen relationships. New York-based Collibra wants to "give meaning to data" through its platform, which aims to provide insights into organizations' growing digital information. Data management ensures the quality of information as it expands, grows and changes, keeping everything organized and easily accessible. Proper data management also includes security, and the Collibra platform also includes tools to centralize privacy policies and processes, as well as a dedicated dashboard for monitoring compliance.
Collibra enables data analytics to accelerate innovation. Cloud-native platforms enable users to create business glossaries and data dictionaries, as well as centralized information repositories that are organized and readily available. By creating a machine learning-driven data catalog, Collibra empowers IT professionals and managers to turn data into successful revenue-generating strategies. Data analysis and scoring are automated for better visualization and analysis.
With over $100 million in annual revenue, Collibra has crossed the $2 billion valuation mark. Led by co-founders Felix Van de Maele and Stan Christiaens, the company has offices in eight countries and more than 700 employees. Collibra software has been used to manage and improve data at more than 300 organizations, including partners such as Cigna Health Systems, Progressive Insurance and Lockheed Martin.
99. It really works
Category: Human Resources
Location: New York, NY
Justworks HR software tools enable organizations to manage payroll, benefits, compliance and employee data. For example, you can manage payroll and time off, enroll in benefits, and keep and track important employee records. There are a variety of tiered plans with transparent pricing available to manage back-end processes, and customer service agents are always available, responsive, and reachable by phone, email, or chatbot.
Earlier this year, America's fastest-growing HR technology company closed a $50 million Series E round. The round was led by Union Square Investors and FirstMark Capital, with participation from Index Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Spark Capital and Thrive Capital. Justworks has raised $143 million in funding to date.
Founded in 2012, the company now has more than 600 employees and has shifted its focus from small businesses to helping large clients like United Healthcare and Kaiser Permanente. They have registered more than 86,000 employees for different clients.
100. bill.com
Category: Financial Process
Location: Palo Alto, California
bill netThe AI-enabled platform helps businesses monitor cash flow from customers and suppliers. The all-in-one payments platform works with banks such as Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase Commercial Bank, and First National Bank of Omaha to offer a variety of payment technology products. They also work with over 100 of the best accounting firms in the United States and countless companies of all sizes. The company digitizes and simplifies automated payments for small and medium businesses. With the pandemic causing more and more business transactions to be conducted online, more and more businesses are choosing the platform to control expenses.
As of the end of 2019, the company had raised $216 million at a valuation of $1.6 billion. After listing, its stock price rose by more than 60% on the first day. Their recent growth and success has earned them a place in the broad Russell 1000 market index, a milestone that will help raise awareness among the investor community and will undoubtedly drive the business even further.
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Microsoft provides the Windows computer operating systems software, Office applications suite, and the Azure cloud computing service. The largest software company in the world also develops server applications, tablets, and video game consoles.
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Microsoft is the world's leading and valuble and the most visible IT company, with over $161 billion in revenue in 2022. Microsoft Corporation was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Redmond, Washington, and is one of the world's largest technology companies.
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| 3 | IBM | 2019 |
| 4 | Oracle | 2019 |
In 2020, Microsoft led the enterprise applications market with 13 percent of the total market worldwide. Salesforce and SAP both shared 6 percent of the global market, while Oracle made up 4 percent in that same year.
Which $5 billion software company has no sales staff? ›Atlassian, which makes popular project-management and chat apps such as Jira and HipChat, doesn't run on sales quotas and end-of-quarter discounts. In fact, its sales team doesn't pitch products to anyone, because Atlassian doesn't have a sales team.
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It primarily deals in computer software. Microsoft Office suite, Edge web browsers, Windows Operating systems, and Internet explorers are some of Microsoft's notable and globally used software. Microsoft is the leading IT company worldwide with a wide array of services.
As of 2021, the Richest Programmer in the World is Elon Musk with a worth $158 Billion.
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