Produced in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures, the Cloud 100 honors the world’s strongest privately-held cloud computing companies and is now in its ninth year. Graduates of the list have gone on to become stock market stalwarts and household names, like Dropbox, Snowflake and Zoom.in September, and fresh financial filings by No. 9 Rubrik indicate it is on the brink of following suit.
The Cloud 100 is a quantitative and qualitative list. Nominees confidentially share financial data including valuation, revenue and growth rate. This generates a financial score, which is considered in conjunction with a people and culture score — based on diversity, headcount change and third-party data like employee ratings — and a market leadership score derived from feedback by dozens of C-suite peers at public companies no longer eligible for the list.