Enterprise Tech 30 The 2020 List: Early Mid Late
Enterprise Tech 30 The 2020 List: Early Mid Late
Enterprise Tech 30 The 2020 List: Early Mid Late
We are pleased to present the second annual Enterprise Tech 30, an exclusive
Rajeev Chand list of the most promising private companies in enterprise technology as
Partner determined by the leading venture capitalists in the sector.
Head of Research
Peter Wagner The inaugural ET30 last year received a great response. As an example, one
Founding Partner LinkedIn post alone had 50,000+ views. For this year, we are pleased to
welcome NASDAQ as an official partner. The 30 companies will be featured on
Jake Flomenberg the NASDAQ Tower in Times Square and interviewed on NASDAQ.com.
Partner
Mission
The purpose of the Enterprise Tech 30 is to identify the most promising private
companies in enterprise technology.
The data signals for enterprise tech startups are opaque and/or are unavailable
outside of the companies themselves. As a result, journalists, customers,
partners, prospective team members, service providers, and others in the
startup ecosystem generally have limited information to ascertain which private
companies have underlying momentum and business potential.
The process
combines signals. The process combines fundamental research with curated voting to
fundamental research capture the discernment of the leading venture capitalists in the sector, while
with curated voting. mitigating the impact of self-promotion bias. The mission is to drive the tech
ecosystem to the quality companies in enterprise tech:
Research Participants
The research participants for the 2020 ET30 were 96 investment partners at 72
venture capital firms.
The 72 venture firms The group represents the range of early-, multi-, and late-stage firms.
have funded 153 of Collectively, the 72 venture firms have funded 153 of the 178 enterprise tech
the 178 enterprise exits and financings valued at $1 billon or greater since January 1, 2016.
tech exits and
financings valued at It is rare to have the expertise and judgement of such a group of venture
$1B+ since 2016. capital investors. Thank you to all of the participants for their leadership in the
Enterprise Tech 30.
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Methodology
The research phase started with companies who received two or more votes in
the 2019 ET30. We added new companies through 1) enterprise tech-related
queries in Pitchbook as of December 9, 2019, and 2) secondary literature
review of tech publications for enterprise tech fundings over the prior six
months. We then requested recommendations from the venture capital
participants. Each recommended company was included, although we
requested recommendations for top companies only to maintain a quality list.
The data signals The voting phase was held between January 13 and January 31, 2020.
include both highest Investors reviewed the 612-company list and voted for up to ten most
rankings within promising companies per stage no more than three of which were from their
portfolios and portfolio. As a result, the data signals in the Enterprise Tech 30 include both
unbiased rankings the highest rankings by investors for their own portfolios and the unbiased
outside portfolios. rankings by investors for outside-portfolio companies.
The results were aggregated and anonymized, and companies that were
acquired or went public during the voting phase were removed. The top 10 per
stage formed the 2020 ET30, ordered by number of votes received. No
company and no venture capital firm, including Wing, received differentiated
influence in the process.
Of note, five of the 2020 ET30 companies raised additional funding after the
voting phase began on January 13. For the 2020 ET30, the companies remain
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Key Takeaways
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6) ML. FortressIQ is one of the more interesting ML companies this year. The
FortressIQ is one of company uses machine learning to observe business processes and formulate
the interesting ML improvement recommendations.
companies this year.
7) JAMstack. Netlify represents the rise of the JAMstack (JavaScript, APIs, and
Markup) and new hosting models for modern web architecture, without the
requirement of a tradition origin server.
9) 2019 ET30. It is difficult to measure the results of the inaugural 2019 ET30
as venture capital and startups are a 10+ year journey. As an initial note,
though, two of the 2019 ET30 had successful exits over the past 9 months.
Datadog went public at a valuation of $7.8 billion, and Plaid was acquired by
Visa for $5.3 billion.
Conclusion
The Enterprise Tech 30 serves as a platform for the tech industry to identify,
understand, and build relationships with the most promising private companies
in enterprise tech.
The Modern Enterprise
is a digital-native Our overarching view is that the Modern Enterprise is a digital-native
workplace, built on workplace, built on data and powered by AI as reflected by many of the 2020
data and powered by Enterprise Tech 30 companies.
AI.
We wish to congratulate the 2020 ET30 companies and to thank the venture
capital participants. It is a privilege to partner with you.
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Airtable .......................................................................................................................... 10
Benchling ...................................................................................................................... 11
Carta ............................................................................................................................. 12
Clearbit.......................................................................................................................... 13
Confluent....................................................................................................................... 14
Databricks ..................................................................................................................... 15
Domino Data Lab .......................................................................................................... 16
Figma ............................................................................................................................ 17
Finix .............................................................................................................................. 18
Fivetran ......................................................................................................................... 19
FortressIQ ..................................................................................................................... 20
Front ............................................................................................................................. 21
GitLab ........................................................................................................................... 22
Gusto ............................................................................................................................ 23
HashiCorp ..................................................................................................................... 24
Ironclad ......................................................................................................................... 25
LaunchDarkly ................................................................................................................ 26
LogDNA ........................................................................................................................ 27
Modern Treasury ........................................................................................................... 28
Netlify ............................................................................................................................ 29
Notion ........................................................................................................................... 30
productboard ................................................................................................................. 31
Retool ........................................................................................................................... 32
Segment........................................................................................................................ 33
Sketch ........................................................................................................................... 34
Snowflake ..................................................................................................................... 35
Stripe ............................................................................................................................ 36
Verkada......................................................................................................................... 37
Webflow ........................................................................................................................ 38
Zapier ............................................................................................................................ 39
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Company Description
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Company Description
Benchling is the first R&D cloud platform powering the life science industry and
helping the next generation of scientists make breakthrough discoveries faster
San Francisco, CA than ever before. Replacing outdated pen and paper processes, Benchling offers
benchling.com unified R&D solutions purpose-built for biotech, including Notebook, Molecular
Biology, Registry, Inventory, and Request & Workflow Management. Benchling is
Cloud based informatic used globally across the largest multinational pharmaceutical corporations,
platform for life sciences emerging biotechnology companies, and major research institutions.
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Company Description
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Company Description
Clearbit is the growth engine for the fastest growing B2B SaaS companies in
the world. Clearbit provides data across the entire marketing funnel to help
San Francisco, CA B2B companies generate and convert demand. Businesses are able to find
clearbit.com and reach their future prospects, recognize intent to take action as soon as a
prospect shows interest, then increase conversion with personalized
Customer data engine marketing and sales interactions.
for sales and
marketing
News & Announcements
Founded: 2015
Employees: 112 2/7/2020 Listed in Boss Magazine, "Five best APIs to use for business in
2020."
Total raised: $17M 9/18/2019 Featured in MarTech Series article, "Clearbit unveils X, the first
Valuation: $250M data-driven platform for B2B marketing and sales teams."
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Company Description
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Company Description
As the
leader in Unified Data Analytics, Databricks helps organizations make all their
San Francisco, CA data ready for analytics, empower data-driven decisions across the
databricks.com organization, and rapidly adopt machine learning to outpace the competition.
tomer base has thousands of organizations
Unified data analytics including Comcast, Shell, Expedia, and Regeneron. Databricks is venture-
platform backed and founded by the original creators of popular open source projects,
including Apache Spark, Delta Lake and MLflow.
Founded: 2013
Employees: 1,200 News & Announcements
Total raised: $897M 10/22/2019 Featured in Bloomberg article, "Databricks doubles valuation to
Valuation: $6.2B $6 billion in eight months."
10/15/2019 Featured in TechTarget article, "Databricks contributes Delta
Lake to the Linux Foundation
9/4/2019 Mentioned in CNBC article, "These are the 25 hottest U.S. start-
ups to work for, according to LinkedIn."
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Company Description
Domino Data Lab provides a data science platform focused on the needs of
large enterprises (governance, reproducibility, security and compliance) with
San Francisco, CA teams of code-first data scientists. Domino helps these organizations
dominodatalab.com increase the business impact of their data science teams through the
Data science platform also allow companies to future-proof their data science investment in a world
for model management of rapidly evolving tools and standards.
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Company Description
San Francisco, CA multiple people to work together in the same file. As a result, Figma has
figma.com simplified the design process for teams of designers, developers, and
stakeholders by creating an online space for them to collaborate visually as a
Collaborative design team.
platform
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Company Description
Finix allows businesses to own, manage, and monetize payments. Their APIs
allow growing software businesses to manage payments the same way Amazon
San Francisco, CA Web Services enables them to manage infrastructure. By bringing payments
finixpayments.com - lity to generate revenue from payments
instead of paying third-party vendors to manage the process for them, thereby
Payments delivering a better overall customer experience. With Finix, companies can
infrastructure for complete this process in months, not years -- and at a fraction of the price.
platforms,
marketplaces, and
ISVs News & Announcements
Founded: 2015 2/6/2020 Featured in FinTech Futures article, "US paytech Finix raises
Employees: 60 $35m to rival Stripe and Square."
9/10/2019 Featured in Cincinnati Business Courier article, "Startup adds
Total raised: $55M batch of former Worldpay executives."
7/16/2019 Featured in Forbes article, "Fintech startup Finix raises $18
million, aims to become the Twilio of payments."
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Company Description
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Company Description
Front replaces corporate email with an inbox that unites your team to do their
best work. It transforms work email into a powerful platform that provides
San Francisco, CA easy access to the people, messages, and apps you need to act quickly and
frontapp.com effectively. With Front, your team gets a shared perspective on the
communications that power your business, stays aligned, and becomes more
Multi-channel inbox for productive together.
teams
News & Announcements
Founded: 2013
Employees: 170
1/22/2020 Featured in Forbes article, "Email startup Front raises rare $59
million round led by other software founders
Total raised: $138M
9/16/2019 Mathilde Collin featured on Inc 2019 Female Founders 100 List
7/16/2019 Featured on Forbes 2019 Next Billion-Dollar Startups List
4/29/2019 How Front is tackling email and
workplace inefficiency
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Company Description
Founded: 2011
Employees: 1,150 News & Announcements
Total raised: $414M 1/29/2020 Listed in Kiplinger article, "The 13 hottest IPOs to watch for in
Valuation: $2.7B 2020."
9/17/2019 Featured in Forbes article, "Gitlab more than doubles valuation to
$2.75 billion ahead of planned 2020 IPO."
7/21/2019 Featured in Forbes article "He built a $1 billion business where
all 700 employees work remotely."
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Company Description
Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take
care of their teams. The company's integrated platform automates and
San Francisco, CA simplifies payroll, benefits, and HR, all while providing expert support. On top
gusto.com of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and
team management tools.
Cloud-based payroll,
benefits, and HR
management software
News & Announcements
Founded: 2011
Employees: 1000 11/8/2019 Ranked #3 on OppTrends Top 5 Payroll Companies in 2020
9/11/2019 Ranked #18 on Forbes The Cloud 100 2019 List
Total raised: $521M
Valuation: $3.8B 5/31/2019 Featured in Denver Business Journal, "Gusto isn't stopping at 1
or even 2 headquarters: it's opening a 3rd in this major city."
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Company Description
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Company Description
Cloud-services-based
server-log
management
News & Announcements
Founded: 2016
Employees: 80 1/14/2020 Announced Year-Over-Year Annualized Revenue Run Rate
Growth Increased by 3.6X
Total raised: $33M 10/29/2019 Recognized on Upstart Tech Awards 2019 List
9/11/2019 Recognized on Forbes 2019 Cloud 100 Rising Stars List
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Company Description
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Company Description
Netlify is the fastest way to build the fastest sites. Used by more than 750,000
web developers and businesses, the Netlify platform provides modern build
San Francisco, CA workflows, serverless functions and a global Application Delivery Network to
netlify.com deliver the most performant, secure and scalable websites and applications.
Netlify pioneered the JAMstack category, a modern web architecture that
All-in-one platform for marries the best practices of static sites with the API economy and serverless
automating modern functions, to deliver the faster load times and dynamic content, without
web projects worrying about web servers.
Founded: 2014 News & Announcements
Employees: 90
11/6/2019 Mentioned in Silicon Valley Business Journal article, "VC Bucky
Total raised: $44M Moore on why he joined Kleiner Perkins, enterprise cloud
prospects he likes."
7/10/2019 Featured in The Register article, "Javascript tracking punks given
a thrashing by good old-fashioned server log analytics."
10/24/2018
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Company Description
Notion is the all-in-one tool for taking notes, sharing documents, building
wikis, and managing projects. Highly customizable, the product lets you
San Francisco, CA combine these elements however you want to solve a variety of problems.
notion.so Create a central hub for your company's knowledge, oversee a product
roadmap, track your own personal to-do's, and more all in one place.
All-in-one workspace Notion makes it easy to define your own workflows so you all get more done,
for notes, tasks, docs, together.
and databases.
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Company Description
Snowflake is the data warehouse built for the cloud, enabling the data-driven
enterprise with instant elasticity, secure data sharing, and per-second pricing,
San Mateo, CA across multiple clouds. Snowflake combines the power of data warehousing,
snowflake.com the flexibility of big data platforms, and the elasticity of the cloud at a fraction
of the cost of traditional solutions.
Cloud data warehouse
platform
Frank Slootman, Chairman & CEO Mark Garrett, former CFO, Adobe
Benoit Dageville, Co-Founder & John McMahon
President, Products Mike Speiser, Managing Director,
Thierry Cruanes, Co-Founder Sutter Hill
Carl Eschenbach, Partner, John Walecka, Partner, Redpoint
Sequoia Kevin Wang, Partner, Altimeter
Jeremy Burton, CEO, Observe Kelly Kramer, EVP & CFO, Cisco
Teresa Briggs
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Company Description
Webflow is the way to design, build, and launch powerful websites visually
without coding. By combining design, animation, content management,
San Francisco, CA marketing, and ecommerce tools into a single visual web development
webflow.com platform, it empowers non-coders and coders alike to ship and promote
websites of all kinds in a faster, more cost-efficient, and more collaborative
Responsive web way.
design tool
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Company Description
Zapier helps more than five million people grow their businesses with the
power of automation. The company connects over 2,000 apps to help people
100% Remote be more productive at work, saving customers up to 20 hours per week.
zapier.com
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