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day, none of that matters as Courtemanche, 51, 15 Medallia
squeezes between palm trees and then a gap in THE CLOUD 100 San Mateo, CA
LESLIE STRETCH
his fence. EMPLOYEES: 1,300
FUNDING RAISED: $255 MIL
We’re dropping by unexpectedly so Courte- The definitive ranking of the private companies to CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
MANAGEMENT
manche can show me the front steps, which will know in tech’s hottest sector. Produced for the third
look like they’re floating in water, and the bay year with the help of Bessemer Venture Partners, 16 Pagerduty
San Francisco
doors to the new infinity pool, which he’s coded this list of breakout cloud companies ranges from
JENNIFER TEJADA
to open by voice. Downstairs is the yoga stu- bootstrapped giants to venture capital startup dar- EMPLOYEES: 440
FUNDING RAISED: $83.6 MIL
dio for his wife, an instructor, and the new guest lings. What they all share: leading their industries in OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
room, where his 20-year-old son, a full-time Pro- revenue, sales growth, valuation and culture, and af- 17 Snowflake
core partnerships manager, can crash. Back at firmation by 34 public cloud-company CEO judges. San Mateo, CA
BOB MUGLIA
work in nearby Carpinteria, Courtemanche can For complete methodology and expanded company EMPLOYEES: 535
watch the house come together on Procore, track- profiles, go to WWW.FORBES.COM/CLOUD100. FUNDING RAISED: $472.9 MIL
CLOUD DATA WAREHOUSE
ing worker schedules and fielding questions from
18 Cylance
his contractor and subcontractors, comparing Irvine, CA
1 Stripe
progress photos to the drawings and finding out San Francisco 10 Eventbrite STUART MCCLURE
San Francisco
EMPLOYEES: 840
how far over budget PATRICK COLLISON JULIA HARTZ FUNDING RAISED: $297 MIL
EMPLOYEES: 1,100 FUNDING RAISED: $334 MIL AI-BASED CYBERSECURITY
EMPLOYEES: 900+
he’s going. Employ-
FUNDING RAISED: $450 MIL
“WHO ELSE ees are used to catch- PAYMENTS INFRASTRUCTURE EVENT TECH PLATFORM 19 Datadog
New York City
2 Slack
GETS BUG ing Courtemanche in STEWART BUTTERFIELD 11 Mailchimp FUNDING RAISED: $147.9 MIL
OLIVIER POMEL
San Francisco
Atlanta
EMPLOYEES: 800
meetings or at lunch
BEN CHESTNUT
EMPLOYEES: 800+
EMPLOYEES: 1,000+
REPORTING checking progress on COLLABORATION SOFTWARE MARKETING SOFTWARE MONITORING SOFTWARE
FUNDING RAISED: $1,260 MIL
FUNDING RAISED: 0
20 Intercom
his home via the app.
San Francisco, CA
FROM THEIR “Who else gets bug Communications 12 CloudFlare EMPLOYEES: 600+
3 Zoom Video
EOGHAN MCCABE
San Francisco
reporting from their
MATTHEW PRINCE
CEO?” CEO?” he says. San Jose, CA FUNDING RAISED: $182 MIL FUNDING RAISED: $241 MIL
CUSTOMER MESSAGING
EMPLOYEES: 750
PLATFORM
ERIC YUAN
Other CEOs carry
EMPLOYEES: 1,300+
FUNDING RAISED: $145.5 MIL INTERNET PERFORMANCE AND
SECURITY
on courtside at NBA VIDEO COMMUNICATION 21 Rubrik
Palo Alto, CA
games; Courtemanche is excited to have lunch 4 Tanium 13 Survey Monkey BIPUL SINHA
San Mateo, CA
EMPLOYEES: 1,200
with construction celebrities like Dirty Jobs host Emeryville, CA ZANDER LURIE FUNDING RAISED: $292 MIL
ORION HINDAWI EMPLOYEES: 750+ CLOUD DATA MANAGEMENT
Mike Rowe. But when it comes to ambition, Pro- EMPLOYEES: 800+ FUNDING RAISED: $1,500 MIL
FUNDING RAISED: $600 MIL SURVEY SOFTWARE
core and its CEO fit right in with the brashest CLOUD MONITORING 22 Yardi
high-fliers in tech. “We believe we’re just in the 5 Procore 14 UiPath Santa Barbara, CA
ANANT YARDI
early days,” Courtemanche says. “I want Procore Carpinteria, CA New York City EMPLOYEES: 6,146
DANIEL DINES FUNDING RAISED: 0
to be the single source of truth for everything in TOOEY COURTEMANCHE EMPLOYEES: 1,250 PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
EMPLOYEES: 1,200 FUNDING RAISED: $183 MIL
construction worldwide.” FUNDING RAISED: $180 MIL ROBOTIC PROCESS
CLOUD-BASED CONSTRUCTION AUTOMATION
AT ORIENTATION AT Procore’s headquarters, a 6 CrowdStrike
Sunnyvale, CA
record batch of 59 new employees and summer GEORGE KURTZ
EMPLOYEES: 1,000
interns gladly take a break from a log-in creden- FUNDING RAISED: $481 MIL 3// ZOOM VIDEO
COMMUNICATIONS
ENDPOINT SECURITY
tials lecture to meet their CEO. Courtemanche, Eric Yuan is ready to predict the
oozing beach-dad charm, has dropped in to tell a 7 Qualtrics death of the conference call. “I
few jokes and take questions. Procore’s founding Provo, UT; Seattle don’t think anywhere will have
RYAN SMITH
legend comes up. Does he still own the house that EMPLOYEES: 1,800 just an audio call in five years,” he
FUNDING RAISED: $400 MIL says. As founder and CEO of Zoom
inspired all of this? “I still have my Land Rover EXPERIENCE MANAGEMENT
Video Communications, a start-
from 1998, the same house, even the same fami- 8 Squarespace up that offers video-conferenc-
ly,” Courtemanche quips. “That house is Procore.” New York City ERIC YUAN ing software and hardware tools
In 2002, when he founded Procore, Courte- ANTHONY CASALENA to more than 20 of the 50 biggest
EMPLOYEES: 810
FUNDING RAISED: $278.5 MIL businesses in the U.S., and more than 90% of the 200 top col-
manche was a moderately successful tech execu- WEBSITE BUILDER leges, Yuan is doing his best to make that prediction come true.
tive in Silicon Valley, making custom interfaces
9 Elastic This fall, Zoom is announcing new features to make its
for online HR software. On the road constantly, Mountain View, CA video chats easier to analyze and to connect to other com-
Courtemanche had received an ultimatum from SHAY BANON panies’ apps. It will also debut its own hardware product that
EMPLOYEES: 1,000+
his wife four years earlier: She and their son were FUNDING RAISED: $100+ MIL combines camera, microphone and software all into one, so PORTRAITS BY FILIP PERIAC FOR FORBES
DATA ANALYTICS businesses can get going without any help from IT. “We truly
moving south to Santa Barbara, and he was wel-
believe video is the new world,” Yuan says. “We think every-
come to join. She’d picked a home, too—one that
thing should be on video.” —Alex Konrad
would need a lot of work. At first flying down on
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