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.
Shopify Inc. is a Canadian multinational e-commerce company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario.
Atlassian Corporation Plc is an Australian software company that develops products for software developers, project managers and other software development teams.
Snowflake offers a cloud-based data storage and analytics service, generally termed "data warehouse-as-a-service".
Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational software corporation that makes software products and services for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, education, and entertainment industries.
Datadog is an observability service for cloud-scale applications, providing monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, through a SaaS-based data analytics platform.
Twilio is an American company based in San Francisco, California, which provides programmable communication tools for making and receiving phone calls, sending and receiving text messages, and performing other communication functions using its web serv...
Cloudflare, Inc. is an American web infrastructure and website security company that provides content delivery network and DDoS mitigation services.
MongoDB is a source-available cross-platform document-oriented database program.
HubSpot is an American developer and marketer of software products for inbound marketing, sales, and customer service.
DocuSign, Inc. is an American company headquartered in San Francisco, California, that allows organizations to manage electronic agreements.
Zendesk is an American company headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Unity is a cross-platform game engine developed by Unity Technologies, first announced and released in June 2005 at Apple Inc.'s Worldwide Developers Conference as a Mac OS X-exclusive game engine.
Dynatrace, Inc. The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform uses a proprietary form of AI called Davis to discover, map, and monitor applications, microservices, container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, and IT infrastructure running in mu...
UiPath is a global software company that makes robotic process automation software.
Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by the American company Dropbox, Inc.,
HashiCorp is a software company with a Freemium business model based in San Francisco, California.
GitLab is a web-based DevOps lifecycle tool that provides a Git repository manager providing wiki, issue-tracking and continuous integration and deployment pipeline features, using an open-source license, developed by GitLab Inc.
Confluent is building the foundational platform for data in motion so any organization can innovate and win in a digital-first world.
Elastic NV is a search company that builds self-managed and SaaS offerings for search, logging, security, observability, and analytics use cases.
Smartsheet is a software as a service offering for collaboration and work management, developed and marketed by Smartsheet Inc.
that allows users to create their own applications and work management software.
DigitalOcean, Inc. is an American cloud infrastructure provider headquartered in New York City with data centers worldwide.
Alteryx is an American computer software company based in Irvine, California, with a development center in Broomfield, Colorado.
New Relic is a San Francisco, California-based technology company which develops cloud-based software to help website and application owners track the performances of their services.
Squarespace, Inc. is an American website building and hosting company which is based in New York City, United States.
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Amplitude Inc. is an American public company focused on analytics products including Amplitude Analytics, Amplitude Recommend, and Amplitude Experiment which it refers to as a Digital Optimization System for businesses.
Expensify is a software company that develops an expense management system for personal and business use.
Sumo Logic, Inc. is a cloud-based machine data analytics company focusing on security, operations and BI usecases.
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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.