A curated list of the top product-led growth companies that will blaze the path for all future software companies. To the pioneers of this list, we are excited for what the future holds for you, your work inspires us at Variance, and we are looking to build tools for you and the companies that will come after you.
Stripe is an Irish-American financial services and software as a service company dual-headquartered in San Francisco, United States and Dublin, Ireland.
Build unique integrations between your favorite web applications, one mouse click at a time without ever having to write a single line of code.
Klaviyo offers an sms and email marketing software platform that automates campaigns for ecommerce. Open source API, design templates, CRM etc. Try free.
Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free.
Make Trust a competitive advantage with the most widely-used platform to manage Privacy, Security, and Data Governance
Stream data into your warehouse for advanced analytics. Fivetran was built to enable analysts to access their business data. Sign up today for a free trial.
Calendly is the modern scheduling platform that makes “finding time” a breeze. When connecting is easy, your teams can get more done.
DataRobot's end-to-end enterprise AI platform makes it fast and easy to build and deploy accurate predictive models. Learn how you can become an AI-driven enterprise today.
The world’s most innovative companies build communication solutions using MessageBird’s applications and APIs — to talk to customers over any channel, for any use use, anywhere in the world.
ThoughtSpot, Inc. is a technology company that produces business intelligence analytics search software.
Millions trust Grammarly’s free writing app to make their online writing clear and effective. Getting started is simple — download Grammarly’s extension today.
Learn how Checkr's platform uses AI to make background checks faster for you. ✓ Speed up your hiring process with these employment background checks!
LaunchDarkly provides simple, scalable feature flag & toggle management (feature management) for the modern enterprise. Eliminate risk, deliver value.
InVision is the world’s leading design collaboration platform, powering the future of digital product design through our deep understanding of the dynamics of collaboration. We provide over two million people with the power to prototype, review, re...
Postman makes API development easy. Our platform offers the tools to simplify each step of the API building process and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs faster.
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At OutSystems, we change the way software is built so you can rapidly create and deploy critical applications that evolve with your business.
CockroachDB is a commercial distributed SQL database management system, developed by Cockroach Labs.
Build your cloud connectivity fabric with the industry-leading end-to-end service connectivity platform that unifies API gateway, ingress and service mesh into one developer solution.
Webflow empowers web designers to build professional, responsive, and custom websites in a completely visual canvas with no code. Try Webflow for free!
Streamline media management and improve user experience by automatically delivering images and videos, enhanced and optimized for every user.
More than a headless CMS, Contentful is the API-first content management platform to create, manage and publish content on any digital channel.
Grafana Labs is an open source software platform built to support monitoring, visualization, and metric analytics.
Sisense is a business intelligence, AI-driven, software company headquartered in New York City, with offices in San Francisco, Scottsdale, Tel Aviv, London, Melbourne, Tokyo, and Kyiv.
ActiveCampaign's category-defining Customer Experience Automation Platform helps over 150,000 businesses build meaningful connections with their customers.
OwnBackup proactively prevents you from losing mission-critical data and metadata with automated backups and rapid, stress-free recovery.
Instant access to 2000+ browsers and real iOS and Android devices for cross browser testing. Ship apps and websites that work for everyone, every time. Get Free Trial.
The zero-party data marketing platform for Shopify. Increase conversion rates by collecting zero-party data to personalize the shopping experience.
Shippo is the best multi-carrier shipping software for e-commerce businesses. Find the best shipping rates, integrate with e-commerce platforms, print shipping labels, track package delivery, and verify addresses with either our shipping API or web app.
Your data is your competitive edge. Matillion's ETL software gives you the tools you need to harness your data and gain powerful business insights.
Pipefy is a no-code platform designed for Workflow and BPM Management that helps HR, Finance, CS, + teams to deploy automation with ease.
Dialpad is an AI-powered cloud communication platform that makes it easier and more efficient to connect and collaborate with your team. Try for free!
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A company must offer transparent pricing
At least one of their pricing stages gave a price, even if the enterprise edition might say something like, contact sales.
A company must offer a freemium or trial product on their website
A user needs to be able to sign up and start using the product immediately without speaking to anyone first.
We combined the valuation of private companies with a number of excellent grading systems including CrunchBase Insights, PitchBook and The Cloud 100.