Top Cloud Startups to Watch (and Work for) in 2023

• Rippling does over $100 million ARR and serves over 400,000 users.

• Rippling rates as 4.89/5 on Software Advice, 4.8 on G2, 4.9 on Capterra, and 4.9 on GetApp by customers.

• Rippling helps customers save time and money by reducing admin hours and the number of tasks required for HR & IT teams. Compass Coffee reduced HR & IT admin tasks by 96% by using Rippling. Double Good saves $50K annually by cutting onboarding and payroll time by 10x.

• As of July 2023, 1Password has 100,000+ customers, including IBM, Slack, PagerDuty, GitLab, Under Armour, Datadog, Snowflake, and Intercom.

• In July 2021, 1Password reported they crossed $120 million in ARR and have been profitable since day one.

• Databricks has over 7,000 customers, including Adobe, Rolls Royce, Comcast, Condé Nast, H&M, AT&T, Shell, Walgreens, Air Canada, Toyota, and T-Mobile.

• Over 40% of the Fortune 500 relies on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform to unify their data.

• Databricks has hundreds of global partners, including Microsoft, Amazon, Tableau, and Booz Allen Hamilton.

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• Canva has 100 million+ monthly active users.

• Users have created 15 billion+ designs on Canva.

• Canva is used in 190 countries and supports 100+ languages.

• 85% of the Fortune 500 uses Canva

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• Figma was said to do $400 million in ARR in 2022.

• The company surpassed 4 million registered users in 2020.

• Figma customers include teams at Carta, Datadog, Oqton, Stripe, Stash, Elsewhen, Netflix, Twitter, GitHub, Square, Repsol, Zoom, Notion, Uber, Microsoft, Gusto, Coinbase, and Stitch Fix.

• As of September 2021, Checkr processes 30 million background checks annually. 

• As of May 2023, Checkr can run background checks in 200+ countries and territories.

• As of May 2023, Checkr has 15,000+ enterprise customers, including Netflix, Instacart, Hot Topic, Shipt, Addeco, Papa John’s, Angi, Elwood Staffing, and HomeCare.com.

• As of May 2023, Gusto has 300,000 customers, including Goldbelly, Spiked Spin, Finder.com, Lemon Yellow, Sleep Reset, Tinpot Creamery, Handlebar Cyclery, and American Canning.

• As of August 2021, Gusto had more than 200,000 customers.

• In 2021, Webflow users built 450,000 websites.

• As of March 2022, Webflow has 3.5 million users, Webflow sites get more than 10 billion monthly views, and Webflow surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue.

• As of May 2023, Webflow powers over 100,000 businesses, including Ramp, Virta, Attentive, AngelList Venture, Mural, Rakuten, HelloSign, and Petal.

• As of May 2023, Plaid’s API network powers 7,000+ apps and services and connects to 12,000+ financial institutions.

• As of December 2020, Plaid’s annualized revenue rate reached ~$170 million.

• In 2021, Checkout surpassed $3 billion in payments processed.

• Checkout customers include Alibaba, MoonPay, Patreon, Binance, Netflix, Farfetch, Grab, ShopBack, Curve, Coinhako, TransferGo, and Dott.

• As of July 2023, Algolia has 17,000+ customers, up from 10,000 in July 2021, including Gymshark, Co-Op, Harry Rosen, and Decathlon.

• As of July 2021, Algolia handles 1.5 trillion search queries annually.

• A total economic impact study commissioned by Forrester Consulting concluded that enterprises might realize a 382% ROI when deploying Algolia’s search and discovery platform.

• As of July 2021, Algolia reported 180% YoY ARR growth.

• As of May 2022, Abnormal Security counts 5% of the Fortune 1000 as customers, including Foot Locker, Xerox, Liberty Mutual, Boston Scientific, Groupon, and Urban Outfitters.

• As of May 2022, Abnormal Security reported a 99% renewal rate with customers and a 4.8/5 rating from 159 reviews on Gartner Peer Insights.

• In 2021, Abnormal Security reported 3x growth in ARR over the previous year.

• As of July 2023, Chronosphere counts DoorDash, Snap, Robinhood, StubHub, Abnormal, and Tecton as customers.

• As of July 2023, Chronosphere shared that their Forrester’s study returned a 165% ROI and < 6 months payback for customers.

• As of June 2023, Chronosphere reported customers were seeing a 60% reduction in their data volumes, up from 48% in the previous year.

• As of January 2023, Chronosphere reported 145% net revenue retention and retained 100% of its customers.

• In September 2022, Chronosphere reported 3x growth in ARR over its previous 12-month period.

• As of March 2023, Cockroach Labs averages 139% annual growth.

• As of December 2021, Cockroach Labs reported 200 customers, including LaunchDarkly, DigitalOcean, Comcast, Booksy, AllSaints, and Storj.

• In December 2021, Cockroach Labs reported 3x growth in ARR.

• In Q3 2021, Cockroach Labs reported a 500% growth in cloud revenue.

• As of November 2021, Collibra has 500+ customers, including Equifax, Cox Automotive, L'Oréal, Cambia Health Solutions, and Northern Trust.

• ConductorOne customers include Ramp, Shippo, DigitalOcean, Panther, Loom, Policygenius, Revizto, and StreamNative.

• Dagger customers include Grafana Labs and Flipt.

• As of July 2023, Dagger’s GitHub has 8.6K stars, 444 forks, and 156 contributors.

• As of July 2023, Dagger has 2,777 members in its Discord community.

• As of July 2023, Docker has 18 million+ developers, 7 million+ applications, and 13 billion+ monthly image downloads on its platform.

• As of July 2023, Docker customers include Adobe, Blue Apron, PayPal, Segment, Palo Alto Networks, Target, Stripe, Splunk, Verizon, and AT&T.

• As of July 2023, DragonflyDB claims its software has 25x more QPS and 12x faster snapshotting than Redis.

• As of July 2023, DragonflyDB claims it offers 30% less memory usage than other market offerings.

• As of July 2023, Dremio customers include Unilever, Samsung, Nokia, Microsoft, Blackrock, Bentley, Abbot, Deloitte, Amazon, and DB Cargo.

• As of March 2023, Hex has 450+ customers, including OpenSea, Fivetran, Glossier, Brex, Noom, Notion, Anthropic, AngelList, Algolia, and Glean.

• As of March 2023, Hex reported 4x growth in revenue and the size of their business in the previous 12-month period.

• As of July 2023, Incident.io claims they help customers save 7 hours per incident, 6 months of engineering time by not building it in-house, and 3 hours less downtime per month.

• As of July 2023, Incident.io customers include Etsy, Vercel, Loom, Linear, Vanta, Ramp, dbt Labs, Pipe, Duffel, Primer, Netlify, Skyscanner, TravelPerk, and Render.

• As of February 2022, Jellyfish has 175 customers, including Hootsuite, Priceline, Optimizely, Jobvite, PagerDuty, Jobber, and Latch.

• In February 2022, Jellyfish reported 3x revenue growth in the past year.

• As of July 2023, LaunchDarkly has 4,000+ customers, up from 2,000 in August 2021, including NBC, HashiCorp, SAP, Ryanair, Square, Vodafone, and Intuit.