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Company Breakdowns

Click on any of the companies below to read about what their products actually do and why they're so valuable.

Analytics and AI

7 companies

How data gets used to drive insights and build models.

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Alteryx

AYX

Alteryx is a group of tools that helps business teams get insights out of their data, without needing to write any code.

Analytics and AI
Databricks logo

Databricks

PRIVATE

Databricks sells a data science and analytics platform built on top of an open source package called Apache Spark.

Analytics and AI
dbt Labs logo

dbt Labs

PRIVATE

dbt (no capitals) is a tool for transforming and organizing data in your warehouse.

Analytics and AI
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LangChain

LangChain helps developers build AI experiences into their products.

Analytics and AI
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OpenAI

PRIVATE

OpenAI is the most popular provider of generative AI models like GPT-4.

Analytics and AI
Segment logo

Segment

TWLO

Segment helps teams track their product and marketing data and send it to whichever tools it needs to go to.

Analytics and AI
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Snowflake

SNOW

Snowflake sells a powerful cloud data warehouse for analytics and data science teams.

Analytics and AI

Communication and Automation

3 companies

The catch-all category.

Twilio logo

Twilio

TWLO

Twilio makes a suite of products that helps you communicate with your customers via SMS, video, calls, and more.

Communication and Automation
UIPath logo

UIPath

PATH

UIPath helps people automate rote manual tasks like updating spreadsheets and creating documents.

Communication and Automation
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Zapier

PRIVATE

Zapier helps business people make custom integrations between their favorite tools, without needing to write any code.

Communication and Automation

Data Stores

7 companies

Places to put and use your company data.

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Algolia

PRIVATE

Algolia provides a set of tools that helps engineers build search functionality into their apps.

Data Stores
Confluent logo

Confluent

CFLT

Apache Kafka is a framework for streaming real time data, and Confluent offers Kafka as a managed service.

Data Stores
Convex logo

Convex

Convex is a backend for app developers: the database, the server code and live updates to the app, in one place.

Data Stores
Elastic logo

Elastic

ESTC

Elasticsearch is a popular open source database for storing and searching unstructured data.

Data Stores
MongoDB logo

MongoDB

MDB

MongoDB is a highly popular unstructured, NoSQL document database for powering your applications.

Data Stores
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PlanetScale

PlanetScale is a managed database in the cloud, built to keep running as an app grows to huge amounts of traffic.

Data Stores
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turbopuffer

Turbopuffer is a search engine built on top of object storage (like AWS S3).

Data Stores

DevOps

5 companies

How software gets tested and deployed to the world.

Docker logo

Docker

PRIVATE

Docker helps developers isolate their code and infrastructure in containers so things always run smoothly.

DevOps
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Gitlab

GTLB

GitLab is a giant tool for literally anything you'd want to do relating to building and deploying software.

DevOps
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Hashicorp

HCP

Hashicorp sells software that helps developers manage their cloud infrastructure via code-based configuration.

DevOps
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JFrog

FROG

JFrog provides a bunch of products and services around DevOps, i.e. taking your software and deploying it to the world.

DevOps
Postman logo

Postman

PRIVATE

Postman is a suite of tools that helps developers build, test, and use internal and external API endpoints.

DevOps

Fintech

2 companies

How developers handle payments and financial infrastructure.

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Plaid

PRIVATE

Plaid acts as an intermediary between apps (like Venmo) and your bank so that you can log in and share data securely.

Fintech
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Stripe

PRIVATE

Stripe sells payments infrastructure for internet businesses: primarily, they help you bill your customers, process payments, and work with your payment data.

Fintech

Infrastructure and Cloud

8 companies

Primitives for running apps, databases, and anything else.

AWS logo

AWS

AMZN

AWS is the premier cloud provider - they sell the infrastructure building blocks to build modern apps.

Infrastructure and Cloud
Baseten logo

Baseten

Baseten runs AI models in production: it hosts the models and scales the servers that answer every request to them.

Infrastructure and Cloud
Cloudflare logo

Cloudflare

NET

Cloudflare provides networking tools that help companies distribute their apps globally and securely.

Infrastructure and Cloud
DigitalOcean logo

DigitalOcean

PRIVATE

DigitalOcean is an independent infrastructure as a service provider; you can think of them as AWS or GCP, but for the people.

Infrastructure and Cloud
Google logo

Google

ABC

Google is the search giant turned full-stack AI infrastructure player, building its own TPU chips, the Gemini models, and the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform to compete with AWS and Microsoft.

Infrastructure and Cloud
Heroku logo

Heroku

CRM

Heroku was and is one of the first cloud platforms as a service (PaaS).

Infrastructure and Cloud
Railway logo

Railway

Railway is a cloud platform where developers deploy their apps and databases without having to manage servers.

Infrastructure and Cloud
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Vercel

PRIVATE

Vercel builds the AI cloud – they make it easy for engineers to deploy and run the user facing (frontend) + AI parts of their applications.

Infrastructure and Cloud

Monitoring and Observability

4 companies

How developers know what's going on in their systems.

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Datadog

DDOG

Datadog is monitoring software - developers use it to get operational visibility into their servers and applications.

Monitoring and Observability
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New Relic

NEWR

New Relic is observability software: teams use it to monitor the performance of their apps and infrastructure.

Monitoring and Observability
Sentry logo

Sentry

PRIVATE

Sentry helps developers diagnose and fix issues in their code.

Monitoring and Observability
Splunk logo

Splunk

SPLK

Splunk is a tool for storing and searching logs, specifically focused on security.

Monitoring and Observability

Security

3 companies

How developers protect their software and hardware from hackers.

Okta logo

Okta

OKTA

Okta is an enterprise-focused identity provider: they take care of managing usernames, passwords, and permissions.

Security
Snyk logo

Snyk

PRIVATE

Snyk helps developers make sure that the code they're writing is secure.

Security
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WorkOS

WorkOS gives developers the building blocks for enterprise login, like single sign-on and user provisioning, so they don't have to build them from scratch.

Security
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