The 100 Most Interesting IT Companies According to SharesPost

Alienenault

• Established: 2007;
• Funding amount: $ 66 million;
• AlienVault Unified Security Management ™ (USM) is a platform designed to provide the tools to effectively protect against a constantly evolving range of information security threats to small and medium businesses.

AppDynamics

• Established: 2008;
• Funding amount: $ 206 million;
• AppDynamics is a service designed for analyzing applications. It provides a set of business solutions that allows you to track, manage and optimize the software environment.

Bit9

• Established: 2003;
• Funding amount: $ 121 million;
• Bit9 is a modern security provider for client computers and servers. Bit9 protects organizations from the most serious threats in two ways: reducing the likelihood of a threat that provides low signature warning forms, and at the expense of a quick response at the moment risks arise.

Code42

• Established: 2001;
• Funding amount: $ 53 million;
• Code42 provides data protection and provides management solutions for consumers, entrepreneurs, and entire corporations. The company's applications include CrashPlan and SharePlan for employees, allowing you to transfer and restore data and access it using a computer or mobile device.

Endgame

• Established: 2008;
• Funding amount: $ 86 million;
• Endgame is a new generation of intelligent security and analytics service. Advanced technology companies provide government and commercial customers with analytics of their devices, ecosystems of applications, and then use this information to solve security problems.

Good technology

• Established: 1996;
• Funding amount: $ 280 million;
• Good Technology provides corporations with multi-platform mobility, security, and management software that allows users to work with a range of devices. Approximately 50% of Good customers are participants in regulated industries: financial services, the public sector, and healthcare.

Lookout

• Established: 2007;
• Funding amount: $ 248 million;
• Lookout protects your mobile devices with Lookout Mobile Security, which provides advanced security when working with the cloud.

Tenable network security

• Established: 2002;
• Funding amount: $ 50 million;
• Tenable Network Security provides continuous monitoring of the network, identifying vulnerabilities, reducing risks, and monitoring compliance with all conditions. The company's products include SecurityCenter Continuous View, which provides a comprehensive and comprehensive overview of network status and Nessus, the global standard for defining network data and providing access to it.

Acquia

• Established: 2007;
• Funding amount: $ 69 million;
• Acquia is a commercial open source software and services company, as well as supporting social publishing systems based on Drupal . The company provides its solutions for filling sites, interacting with communities and commerce to more than 4,000 organizations.

Actifio

• Established: 2009;
• Funding amount: $ 208 million;
• Actifio offers virtual data copy solutions. The company's technology Virtual Data Pipeline allows you to abstract data from the infrastructure, opening access to the "cloud" that allows you to expand the capabilities of the company - to make its processes more flexible. Actifio replaces several individual data management applications with an SLA-oriented approach.

Adaptive insights

• Established: 2003;
• Funding amount: $ 85 million;
• Adaptive Insights (formerly Adaptive Planning) provides solutions for cloud-based business and financial analytics of companies and non-profit organizations of all sizes. The company's SaaS platform, built on the principle, allows teams of financiers and managers to jointly plan, monitor and analyze financial and operational performance.

Appirio

• Established: 2006;
• Funding amount: 77 million dollars;
• Appirio is a global consulting company that helps other companies determine which of the “cloud” services is best suited for solving their problems. Appirio also develops custom applications for working with the “cloud” (linking together several “cloud” services and the like). Partners of Appirio include such companies as Salesforce, Google, and Workday.

Apptio

• Established: 2007;
• Funding amount: $ 136 million;
• Apptio offers SaaS applications that help IT executives increase the profitability and quality of their IT services. Apptio applications are capable of conducting IT planning, benchmarking, and calculating the cost of services, performance, and refund.

Atlassian

• Established: 2002;
• Funding amount: $ 60 million;
• Atlassian is the leading provider of collaboration software for development teams. Atlassian products help teams of any size keep track of all the huge parameters and exchange data.

Cloudera

• Established: 2008;
• Funding amount: $ 301 million;
• Cloudera offers corporations a new information platform based on the Apache Hadoop software package. Cloudera offers its corporate customers a family of products and services that complement the open platform Hadoop. According to Cloudera, more than 22,000 people worldwide already use it.

Cloudflare

• Established: 2009;
• Funding amount: $ 72 million;
• CloudFlare systems optimize the speed of displaying pages of websites, protecting them from spam and other attacks. CloudFlare guarantees website activity and provides the ability to add web applications in one click, and also increases overall performance, regardless of the size of the web service, without the need for improved hardware, software installation or code changes.

Domo

• Established: 2011;
• Funding amount: $ 249 million;
• Domo is a cloud-based platform that provides real-time, direct access to important business information. Domo covers a wide range of industries including media, entertainment, technology, healthcare, financial services, and higher education. The founders of the company use the experience of Amazon, American Express, eBay, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Salesforce.

Gigya

• Established: 2006;
• Funding amount: $ 105 million;
• The Gigya user management software package helps to better understand what customers and users who actively use social networks and mobile phones want. The Gigya service works with Pepsi, Verizon and ABC, and its technologies make it possible to combine data about customers and their behavior.

Okta

• Established: 2008;
• Funding amount: $ 79 million;
• Okta is a “cloud” account management service designed to solve the problem of integrating various platforms. Okta integrates with existing directories and identification systems, as well as thousands of directories on enterprise servers, in the cloud and mobile applications, which allows Okta to manage them safely anywhere, anytime and from any device.

Qualtrics

• Established: 2002;
• Funding amount: $ 70 million;
• Qualtrics is a leading provider of enterprise research technologies that allow real-time tracking of customer numbers, market relations and employee relations, which helps to correct decision-making.

Sendgrid

• Established: 2009;
• Funding amount: $ 47 million;
• SendGrid has developed a cloud service that solves the problem of delivering corporate email. The SendGrid cloud infrastructure eliminates the cost of creating such a system at the expense of the company's resources.

Servicemax

• Established: 2007;
• Funding amount: $ 122 million;
• ServiceMax provides solutions for managing services on request. A set of "cloud" services allows you to manage contracts, planning and optimization of labor resources, inventory and organization of material support. ServiceMax customers include such large enterprises as Electrolux and Coca-Cola.

Slack

• Established: 2013;
• Funding amount: $ 180 million;
• Slack is a platform for communicating a team that integrates with dozens of services, including Dropbox, Google Docs, GitHub and Twitter, and combines files, messages and notifications in a single platform with the search function.

Sugarcrm

• Established: 2006;
• Funding amount: $ 120 million;
• SugarCRM creates customer relationship management software. SugarCRM was an open source project at Sourceforge, which is still available.

Telogis

• Established: 2001;
• Funding amount: $ 93 million;
• Telogis provides a “cloud-based” location platform designed for companies requiring dynamic routing, real-time order management, navigation, telemetry and mobile integration services for their constantly moving employees in areas such as delivery, car rental, government orders and etc.

Tintri

• Established: 2008;
• Funding amount: $ 135 million;
• Tintri creates smart storage solutions that allow IT organizations to focus on virtual applications and services, rather than managing storage infrastructure.

Twilio

• Established: 2007;
• Funding amount: $ 104 million;
• Twilio is a software "cloud" communication platform that allows developers and companies to develop communication solutions.

Zenefits

• Funding amount: $ 116 million;
• Zenefits is a free cloud-based HR platform that automates and eliminates time-consuming HR tasks for small and medium-sized businesses.

Zuora

• Established: 2007;
• Funding amount: $ 133 million;
• Zuora is a multi-user “cloud” platform for launching, scaling and monetizing subscription services.

AddThis

• Established: 2004;
• Funding amount: $ 58 million;
• By providing content selection tools, advertising services and other data management solutions, AddThis personalizes web pages and mobile devices. AddThis provides free tools for publishers to help increase the flow of interested readers and reduce bounce rates. AddThis collaborates with many platforms, both information-computing and customer-oriented, for example, BlueKai (acquired by Oracle), Turn and DoubleClick from Google.

AppNexus

• Established: 2007;
• Funding amount: $ 141 million;
• AppNexus provides advertising solutions. A single open software platform allows customers to effectively manage their own online advertising services.

Chartboost

• Established: 2011;
• Funding amount: $ 21 million;
• Chartboost is a mobile advertising network for people working in the gaming industry. The company's platform allows game developers to attract new users through cross-promotion, sell their games and integrate with other developers.

Clearslide

• Established: 2009;
• Funding amount: $ 89 million;
• ClearSlide is a sales increasing platform that helps attract customers and sell products. The company's platform allows real-time monitoring of statistics for all types of content that has the greatest impact on consumers.

DataXu

• Established: 2007;
• Funding amount: $ 75 million;
• DataXu's data management platform helps customers evaluate and understand consumer behavior, and a platform for working with consumers helps attract customers at every stage of the buying process.

Openx

• Established: 2008;
• Funding amount: $ 76 million;
• According to the company, OpenX is one of the largest, most efficient and high-quality electronic advertising exchanges. The OpenX platform is based on the Demand Fusion technology.

Turn

• Established: 2004;
• Funding amount: $ 138 million;
• Turn is engaged in marketing applications: Audience Suite, Campaign Suite and DataMine Analytics.

xAd

• Established: 2009;
• Funding amount: $ 74 million;
• xAd is a global trading platform with advertising solutions aimed at attracting customers and increasing sales. The company uses data on the behavior of customers in the store for advertising campaigns.

Yext

• Established: 2006;
• Funding amount: $ 116 million;
• Yext offers its services to users, advertisers and publishers. Yext Digital Presence Management software allows marketers to manage their content: information pages, pages in social networks, events, and much more.

Airbnb

• Established: 2007;
• Funding amount: $ 120 million;
• Airbnb is a platform for people who want to find and book unique hotel rooms around the world. Service services can be used online via the Internet or using a mobile phone. Whether it is a one-night apartment, a castle for a week, or a villa for a month, Airbnb provides them at affordable prices in more than 190 countries.

Housetrip

• Established: 2010;
• Funding amount: $ 60 million;
• HouseTrip remains one of the largest websites in the world, providing holidaymakers and homeowners with a safe and easy-to-use platform for online searching and renting apartments, houses and villas.

Bloom energy

• Established: 2002;
• Funding amount: $ 880 million;
• Bloom Energy's unique local energy production system uses new, innovative fuel cells, whose development began in the NASA Mars program. Fuel cell technology based on solid oxides derived from sand-like powder, which uses the latest advances in materials science, has high efficiency and produces clean energy where it is needed.

Clean Power Finance

• Established: 2007;
• Funding amount: $ 66 million;
• Clean Power Finance (CPF) brings together experts in the field of solar technologies and investors in its own B2B trading platform, distributing funds and providing the solar industry with its own SaaS application. CPF helps investors and lenders to invest in solar projects that guarantee moderate-risk income rates.

Sunrun

• Established: 2007;
• Funding amount: $ 145 million;
• Sunrun provides solar panels for residential buildings at low prices (including maintenance) on a long-term basis (20 years).

Boku

• Established: 2009;
• Funding amount: $ 173 million;
• Boku was born in an attempt to create a cost-free payment system, the idea of ​​which was to use a mobile phone as a secure payment tool. The company works with mobile operators-partners all over the world, therefore its customers can purchase goods online simply by using the cellular number.

Klarna

• Established: 2005;
• Funding amount: $ 166 million;
• Klarna offers payment solutions for online stores. The basis of Klarna is the concept of “payment after delivery”, which allows buyers to receive orders before payment. Klarna preaches trust and free market relations between buyers and sellers around the world.

Social Finance

• Established: 2011;
• Funding amount: $ 766 million;
• Social Finance (SoFi), a peer-to-peer online lending platform, offers student loan refinancing for highly qualified university graduates.

Square

• Established: 2009;
• Funding amount: $ 540 million;
• Square provides a full range of credit card services, inventory tracking and small business financing. The platform is currently available in the USA, Canada and Japan.

Stripe

• Established: 2010;
• Funding amount: $ 120 million;
• Stripe is a suite of applications that allows users to accept online payments. Stripe is committed to developing e-commerce, making it easier to process transactions and manage your online business. The company claims that the problem of increasing the number of transactions is a problem of development and programming, and not financial.

Wealthfront

• Established: 2011;
• Funding amount: $ 130 million;
• Wealthfront is an automated investment system developed as an alternative to traditional financial advisory services.

Buzzfeed

• Established: 2008;
• Funding amount: $ 96 million;
• BuzzFeed is a news and entertainment media company whose social and publishing technologies provide an opportunity to take a different look at advertising. According to BuzzFeed, they provide their 100 million audience with the most popular news, original reports and entertainment videos from social networks.

Houzz

• Established: 2009;
• Funding amount: $ 214 million;
• Houzz is a design and repair platform that provides people with everything they need for their homes: from decorating a room to building their own home. Houzz brings together millions of homeowners, designers and professional builders all over the country and around the world.

Knewton

• Established: 2008;
• Funding amount: $ 54 million;
• Knewton is an educational technology company that personalizes digital courses by providing a personalized list of recommendations.

Lynda.com

• Established: 1995;
• Funding amount: $ 289 million;
• Lynda.com is an online learning company that helps users learn about software, technology, creative and business skills. More than 2 million people have access to the Lynda.com video library with 87,000 educational films.

Open English

• Established: 2006;
• Funding amount: $ 116 million;
• Open English is the leading online English language school in Latin America and the USA. The online school offers personalized live lessons 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with native speakers.

Pinterest

• Established: 2009;
• Funding amount: $ 562 million;
• Pinterest combines visualization and planning techniques. Users use the site and applications to find ideas, recipes, places to travel and products.

Shazam

• Established: 2002;
• Funding amount: $ 125 million;
• When users “shazamyat” a song or TV show, after a successful search in the system, they can listen, buy and share this content on Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, Pinterest, etc. Shazam is available for free on all major platforms.

Soundcloud

• Established: 2008;
• Funding amount: $ 123.3 million;
• SoundCloud is a social audio platform that gives users unparalleled access to the world's largest music maker community.

Spotify

• Established: 2006;
• Funding amount: $ 288 million;
• Spotify provides digital content from various recording studios and artists. Users can sort content by artist, album, genre, playlist, label and popularity, as well as create, share with other users and edit playlists. Spotify is available for mobile platforms such as Android, Blackberry, Boxee, iOS, Linux, MeeGo, Squeezebox, Windows mobile, and others. The application is free and supported by advertising, but the company has introduced a premium subscription that disables advertising.

Kabam

• Established: 2006;
• Funding amount: $ 246 million;
• Kabam develops games for mobile devices and distributes them to the Apple App Store, Google Play and Amazon Appstore. The company originates from Kabam Studios, which is partnered with Hollywood studios Disney, Lionsgate and Warner Bros. created the game.

Rovio Entertainment Ltd

• Established: 2003;
• Funding amount: $ 42 million;
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Supercell

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INRIX

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MapR

• : 2009;
• : 110 .;
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MongoDB

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Palantir Technologies

• : 2004;
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Sumo Logic

• : 2010;
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Dropbox

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Nutanix

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Pure Storage

• : 2009;
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• : 310 .;
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Sonos

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Space Exploration Technologies

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Uber

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Fitbit

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One Kings Lane

• : 2009;
• : 113 .;
• One Kings Lane is a website of fast sales for designer home goods: furniture, accessories and gifts with a discount of up to 70% off the retail price. The company works with leading local brands, collaborates with designers, decorators and industry insiders, steadily delivering new products.

Quirky

• Established: 2009;
• Funding amount: $ 175 million;
• Anyone from the Quirky community can become an inventor by giving up the idea of ​​a product that Quirky will develop, produce and sell. Inventors who have submitted successful ideas that have gone into development, and those who have influenced their development, profit from sales.

Shopify

• Established: 2006;
• Funding amount: $ 112 million;
• Shopify is a trading platform that allows anyone to sell products using the Web. Shopify has its own online stores, payment systems, credit cards accepted for payment, and the Shopify POS retail app.

The Honest Company

• Established: 2011;
• Funding amount: $ 122 million;
• The Honest Company was created for consumers of environmentally friendly, healthy and inexpensive products for the whole family.

DocuSign

• Established: 2003;
• Funding amount: $ 246 million;
• DocuSign platform works with electronic digital signatures. Companies and individuals use DocuSign to speed up transactions, increase their efficiency, increase security and reduce costs in all industries.

Eventbrite

• Established: 2006;
• Funding amount: $ 200 million;
• Eventbrite is an online service that allows you to organize an event or take part in any other. With Eventbrite, organizers can set up an event page, share it through social networks, start a fundraiser, and track the number of participants and sales.

Evernote

• Established: 2004;
• Funding amount: 270 million dollars;
• Evernote allows users to find and structure information in the form of notes, photos and task lists. All data is synchronized with Evernote and available for users of Windows, Mac, Web and mobile devices. The basic Evernote app is free, but the company collects monthly fees of $ 5 or $ 45 per year for access to premium services.

Github

• Established: 2008;
• Funding amount: $ 100 million;
• GitHub is an online hosting for software developers using the Git control system. GitHub offers paid accounts for private repositories, as well as free accounts for open source projects.

Hootsuite

• Established: 2008;
• Funding amount: $ 225 million;
• Hootsuite is a social platform for organizations that allows them to campaign together on social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ using a single toolbar.

Jumio

• Established: 2010;
• Funding amount: $ 32 million;
• Jumio offers next-generation credit card and online payment verification with ID verification for online stores, financial and government agencies, and online markets.

Lithium Technologies

• Established: 2001;
• Funding amount: $ 152 million;
• Lithium Technologies creates social SaaS services, allowing brands to communicate with consumers, receive product reviews and attract loyal customers. The company sells monthly subscriptions, varying in price, depending on the size of the company and the quantity of goods purchased.

Medallia

• Established: 2001;
• Funding amount: $ 105 million;
• Medallia SaaS applications allow companies to receive real-time feedback from users from all over the world (via the web, social networks, mobile devices and call centers) to pick up ideas and solutions for management and support staff to improve customer service.

MINDBODY

• Established: 2001;
• Funding amount: $ 108 million;
• MINDBODY is a provider of business management software for the fashion, cosmetics and healthcare industries. SaaS-solution allows small companies to manage all aspects of their activities within a single system: from web planning and personnel management to payment processing, automated marketing and e-commerce.

Optimizely

• Established: 2010;
• Funding amount: $ 88 million;
• Optimizely is a web application optimization platform that provides users with A / B and multivariate testing. The platform allows organizations to conduct and analyze the results of experiments that affect business development.

SurveyMonkey

• Established: 1999;
• Funding amount: $ 1200 million;
• SurveyMonkey is a web-based survey company whose services are used by millions of users. The company is able to determine a variety of indicators: from customer satisfaction to staff performance, as well as to evaluate the direction of development and conduct research of all types.