Cloud Computing
86 companies in this sector.
| # | Company | Description | Location | Status | Funding |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | OpenAI | AI research company building artificial general intelligence, creator of ChatGPT, GPT-4, DALL-E, and the OpenAI API platform. | San Francisco, US | Private | $167.9B |
| 02 | Databricks | Data and AI company that provides a unified analytics platform built on Apache Spark, enabling data engineering, data science, and machine learning at scale. | San Francisco, US | Private | $20.0B |
| 03 | CoreWeave | Specialized cloud infrastructure provider purpose-built for GPU-accelerated workloads. Operates large-scale data centers optimized for AI model training and inference, serving as a key compute partner for frontier AI labs. | Livingston, US | Public | $4.0B |
| 04 | DayOne | DayOne is a hyperscale data center platform providing AI-optimized digital infrastructure across Asia-Pacific and Europe, spun out from GDS Holdings. | Singapore, SG | Private | $3.8B |
| 05 | Nscale | Builds sustainable AI-ready data centers, deploys massive-scale GPU infrastructure, and delivers high-performance cloud services for enterprise AI training, fine-tuning, and inference at scale. | London, United Kingdom | Private | $3.7B |
| 06 | Nebius Group | AI cloud infrastructure company that builds full-stack infrastructure for AI, including large-scale GPU clusters, cloud platforms, and developer tools for AI builders. Formerly Yandex N.V., rebranded in 2024 after divesting Russian operations. | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Public | $3.7B |
| 07 | Mistral AI | French artificial intelligence company that develops open-weight and proprietary large language models, offering frontier AI through its platform La Plateforme and chatbot Le Chat. | Paris, FR | Private | $3.2B |
| 08 | Crusoe | Vertically integrated AI infrastructure company that builds and operates data centers powered by stranded and wasted energy sources, offering cloud computing services purpose-built for AI workloads. | Denver, United States | Private | $2.5B |
| 09 | Lambda | Provides GPU cloud computing infrastructure for AI training and inference, offering on-demand access to NVIDIA GPU clusters used by enterprises, research labs, and AI startups to build and deploy deep learning models. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $2.4B |
| 10 | Wiz | Cloud security company that provides a unified platform for cloud-native application protection, enabling organizations to rapidly identify and remediate critical risks across their cloud environments. | New York, US | Acquired | $1.9B |
| 11 | Groq | Designer of the Language Processing Unit (LPU), a custom AI inference chip built for speed and efficiency that takes a fundamentally different approach from GPUs, serving developers and Fortune 500 companies through its GroqCloud service | Mountain View, United States | Acquired | $1.8B |
| 12 | Snowflake | Cloud-based data warehousing company providing a platform for data storage, processing, and analytics that runs on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, enabling organizations to consolidate data into a single source of truth. | Bozeman, US | Public | $1.6B |
| 13 | Cohere | Enterprise AI company building large language models and NLP tools for businesses, co-founded by a co-author of the seminal Attention Is All You Need transformer paper, with a focus on security-first generative AI for enterprise and government customers | Toronto, Canada | Private | $1.5B |
| 14 | VAST Data | AI-powered data platform that unifies storage, database, and compute infrastructure for enterprise and AI workloads at scale, reaching $2B ARR and serving as critical data infrastructure for hyperscale AI training. | New York, United States | Private | $1.4B |
| 15 | Neysa | Indian AI acceleration cloud platform that designs and develops AI systems deployed within India. Builds high-performance GPU-based cloud infrastructure enabling enterprises, AI labs, and government bodies to train, fine-tune, and deploy large AI models at scale. Plans to deploy over 20,000 GPUs in India through its flagship Neysa Velocis platform. | Mumbai, IN | Private | $1.3B |
| 16 | Armis | Cyber exposure management and security platform that provides agentless visibility and protection for managed, unmanaged, and IoT devices across enterprise environments, covering IT, OT, IoMT, and cloud assets | San Francisco, United States | Acquired | $1.2B |
| 17 | Bird | Cloud communications and CRM platform enabling businesses to engage customers across SMS, email, WhatsApp, and other channels via APIs. Originally known as MessageBird, rebranded to Bird in February 2024. Serves 15,000+ customers across 170+ countries with AI-powered marketing, sales, and payment tools. | Amsterdam, NL | Private | $1.1B |
| 18 | ClickHouse | Open-source columnar database management system designed for real-time analytics and AI workloads. Originally developed at Yandex and open-sourced in 2016, it became an independent company in 2021. | San Francisco, US | Private | $1.1B |
| 19 | Chainguard | Software supply chain security company that provides hardened container images with zero known vulnerabilities, offering a catalog of over 1,300 continuously updated, fully signed images with software bills of materials (SBOMs) for enterprises | Kirkland, United States | Private | $892M |
| 20 | Vercel | Frontend cloud platform and creator of Next.js, the popular React framework. Provides developers with tools for building, deploying, and scaling web applications with instant global delivery, serverless functions, and edge computing infrastructure. | San Francisco, US | Private | $863M |
| 21 | Replit | AI-powered cloud development platform that enables anyone to build software in a browser, known for popularizing vibe coding with its Replit Agent and serving 40M+ users on track for $1B ARR. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $852M |
| 22 | Grafana Labs | Open-source observability platform providing visualization, monitoring, and analytics tools for metrics, logs, and traces, building and maintaining the widely used Grafana dashboard and a composable observability stack | New York, United States | Private | $804M |
| 23 | Fivetran | Automated data movement platform that reliably moves data from 700+ sources including SaaS applications, databases, and files to data warehouses, data lakes, and other destinations. | Oakland, US | Private | $725M |
| 24 | Cribl | Data engine for IT and security teams that provides an observability pipeline platform, enabling enterprises to route, reduce, enrich, and transform streaming data from any source to any destination in real time | San Francisco, United States | Private | $715M |
| 25 | Cockroach Labs | Developer of CockroachDB, a cloud-native distributed SQL database designed for global, scalable, and resilient applications that survive disasters and maintain consistency across multiple regions | New York, United States | Private | $633M |
| 26 | Nexthop AI | AI networking infrastructure company building custom switching platforms and disaggregated spine architectures optimized for AI data centers, serving hyperscale cloud providers with high-performance GPU-to-GPU interconnect solutions. | Santa Clara, United States | Private | $610M |
| 27 | Dropbox | Cloud storage and file synchronization platform that lets users store, share, and collaborate on files across devices. | San Francisco, US | Public | $607M |
| 28 | Illumio | Illumio is a cybersecurity company that provides zero trust segmentation solutions to prevent breaches from spreading across data centers, cloud environments, and endpoints. The platform uses real-time visibility and automated policy enforcement to contain attacks, serving more than 20% of the Fortune 100. | Sunnyvale, United States | Private | $558M |
| 29 | Box | Box is a cloud content management and file sharing platform for businesses. The company helps organizations securely manage, share, and collaborate on content across their enterprise, serving over 100,000 businesses worldwide. | Redwood City, United States | Public | $552M |
| 30 | Alchemy | Alchemy is a blockchain infrastructure and developer platform often described as the 'AWS of blockchain.' The company provides APIs, node infrastructure, and developer tools that power the majority of top Web3 applications, including OpenSea, MetaMask, and Robinhood. Alchemy handles over $100B in annualized on-chain transactions and serves developers across 197 countries. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $545M |
| 31 | Together AI | AI cloud infrastructure company that builds and operates a platform for running, training, and fine-tuning open-source AI models, enabling organizations to incorporate generative AI into production applications | San Francisco, United States | Private | $534M |
| 32 | Supabase | Open-source alternative to Firebase built on Postgres, providing developers with a backend platform including database, authentication, real-time subscriptions, storage, and edge functions | Singapore, Singapore | Private | $496M |
| 33 | Everpure | Everpure (formerly Pure Storage) is a publicly traded enterprise data storage and data management platform company (NYSE: PSTG). Originally pioneering all-flash storage arrays, the company rebranded in February 2026 to reflect its evolution into a full data management platform for the AI era. Everpure provides unified data storage, protection, and management solutions to enterprises globally. | Santa Clara, US | Public | $470M |
| 34 | Confluent | Enterprise data streaming platform built on Apache Kafka. Founded by the creators of Kafka at LinkedIn, Confluent provides the infrastructure for real-time data pipelines and event-driven architectures. | Mountain View, United States | Acquired | $456M |
| 35 | dbt Labs | dbt Labs is the company behind dbt (data build tool), an open-source analytics engineering framework that enables data teams to transform data in their warehouses using SQL. Originally founded as Fishtown Analytics, the company signed a definitive agreement to merge with Fivetran in October 2025 in an all-stock deal, creating a combined data infrastructure company approaching $600M in ARR. | Philadelphia, United States | Private | $416M |
| 36 | Starburst | Starburst is the commercial company behind Trino (formerly PrestoSQL), the open-source distributed SQL query engine. The platform provides a data lakehouse analytics layer that lets enterprises query data across any source without requiring data movement or migration. | Boston, United States | Private | $414M |
| 37 | Benchling | Benchling is a cloud-based life sciences R&D platform that helps biotech and pharmaceutical companies manage experiments, track data, and accelerate research and development. The platform replaces physical lab notebooks and spreadsheets with collaborative, AI-ready digital tools used by over 1,200 customers worldwide. | San Francisco, US | Private | $412M |
| 38 | Hugging Face | Open-source platform and community for machine learning, providing tools, pre-trained models, and datasets that enable developers and researchers to build, train, and deploy AI models, often called the GitHub of machine learning | New York, United States | Private | $395M |
| 39 | HashiCorp | Developer of open-source infrastructure automation tools including Terraform, Vault, Consul, and Nomad. Acquired by IBM for $6.4 billion in 2025. | San Francisco, United States | Acquired | $349M |
| 40 | Kong | Kong is the company behind the most widely adopted open-source API gateway and service connectivity platform. Originally founded as Mashape (an API marketplace), the company pivoted to focus on its open-source Kong Gateway and rebranded in 2017. Kong Konnect enables enterprises to manage, secure, and observe APIs across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $344M |
| 41 | Frore Systems | Deep tech startup developing advanced solid-state and liquid cooling technology for AI chips and data centers, enabling higher performance and density in computing infrastructure. | San Jose, United States | Private | $340M |
| 42 | Fal | Fal is a generative media infrastructure company providing serverless GPU compute and AI model deployment for developers. The platform offers API access to over 600 AI models for generating images, video, audio, and 3D content, serving over 2 million developers and enterprise customers including Adobe, Canva, and Shopify. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $337M |
| 43 | Nutanix | Enterprise cloud computing company that provides hyperconverged infrastructure software, combining storage, computing, and virtualization in a single platform. Pioneered the concept of invisible infrastructure, simplifying datacenter operations for enterprises worldwide. | San Jose, United States | Public | $313M |
| 44 | Actifio | Actifio pioneered copy data virtualization, reducing unnecessary duplication of enterprise data for backup, disaster recovery, and DevOps. The company's software enabled businesses to manage virtual copies of data across on-premises and cloud environments, serving over 3,700 customers before being acquired by Google in December 2020. | Waltham, Massachusetts, United States | Acquired | $312M |
| 45 | MongoDB | Provides a developer data platform built around its flagship document-oriented NoSQL database, offering cloud database services (MongoDB Atlas), enterprise server, and related tools for building modern applications at scale. | New York, United States | Public | $311M |
| 46 | Chronosphere | Cloud-native observability platform providing monitoring, alerting, and analytics for microservices architectures. Helps engineering teams manage the complexity of distributed systems at scale. | New York, United States | Acquired | $277M |
| 47 | Anyscale | Anyscale is the company behind Ray, the open-source distributed computing framework originally developed at UC Berkeley. The platform enables developers to scale Python and AI workloads from a laptop to a cluster with minimal code changes, providing managed cloud infrastructure for training, serving, and scaling AI applications. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $260M |
| 48 | Twilio | Cloud communications platform that provides programmable APIs for voice, SMS, video, and email, enabling developers to embed communication capabilities directly into their applications. Twilio powers customer engagement for hundreds of thousands of businesses worldwide. | San Francisco, United States | Public | $233M |
| 49 | Okta | Okta is an identity and access management platform that provides cloud-based solutions for securely connecting people to technology. The company offers single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and lifecycle management for enterprises and developers. | San Francisco, United States | Public | $229M |
| 50 | DigitalOcean | DigitalOcean is a cloud infrastructure provider that simplifies cloud computing for developers, startups, and small-to-medium businesses. The company offers on-demand compute, storage, networking, and managed databases, serving over 500,000 customers globally. | New York, United States | Public | $224M |
| 51 | Netlify | Netlify is a web development platform that provides hosting, continuous deployment, and serverless backend services for modern web projects. The company pioneered the Jamstack architecture, enabling developers to build faster, more secure websites. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $202M |
| 52 | Cloudflare | Web infrastructure and security company providing content delivery network, DDoS mitigation, Internet security, and distributed DNS services, helping to build a faster, more secure internet for millions of websites and applications. | San Francisco, US | Public | $182M |
| 53 | Mux | Mux provides video infrastructure for developers through an API-first platform. Its core products are Mux Video (encoding, storage, and streaming) and Mux Data (quality-of-experience analytics monitoring billions of streams). | San Francisco, United States | Private | $174M |
| 54 | PagerDuty | Cloud-based incident management and digital operations platform that helps IT teams detect, triage, and resolve infrastructure and application issues in real time through intelligent alerting, on-call scheduling, and automated response orchestration. | San Francisco, US | Public | $174M |
| 55 | DFINITY Foundation | DFINITY Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that builds and maintains the Internet Computer, a web-speed, internet-scale public blockchain. The platform enables smart contracts to serve interactive web content directly to browsers, allowing developers to build fully decentralized applications and enterprise systems. | Zurich, Switzerland | Private | $167M |
| 56 | Elastic | Open-source search and analytics company behind Elasticsearch, Kibana, and the Elastic Stack. Provides enterprise search, observability, and security solutions used by thousands of organizations worldwide for log analysis, application monitoring, and threat detection. | San Francisco, United States | Public | $162M |
| 57 | Rigetti Computing | Rigetti Computing is a full-stack quantum computing company that designs and fabricates superconducting quantum processors, integrates them into quantum computers, and delivers access through its Quantum Cloud Services platform. The company operates the world's first dedicated quantum chip foundry. | Berkeley, US | Public | $155M |
| 58 | Zscaler | Zscaler is a cloud security company that provides a zero-trust platform for securing internet and SaaS access for enterprises. The company's cloud-native architecture replaces traditional network security appliances, serving thousands of global organizations. | San Jose, United States | Public | $150M |
| 59 | Datadog | Cloud-scale monitoring and analytics platform providing infrastructure monitoring, application performance management, log management, and security monitoring for developers, IT operations, and business teams. | New York, US | Public | $148M |
| 60 | Pinecone | Pinecone is the leading vector database platform for building accurate, performant AI applications at scale. Founded by former AWS Director of Research Edo Liberty, the company provides a fully managed, serverless infrastructure that makes it easy to connect enterprise data with large language models and other AI systems. | New York, United States | Private | $138M |
| 61 | Neon | Serverless Postgres platform that separates storage and compute, enabling autoscaling, database branching, and scale-to-zero for developers and AI agents. Acquired by Databricks for ~$1B in May 2025. | San Francisco, United States | Acquired | $126M |
| 62 | Fly.io | Fly.io is a developer-focused public cloud platform that runs full-stack applications and databases close to end users using Firecracker micro-VMs. The platform distributes containerized apps to servers across 30+ regions worldwide, providing low-latency performance without the complexity of traditional multi-region deployments. | Chicago, United States | Private | $111M |
| 63 | Eclypsium | Cybersecurity firm scanning firmware of servers, laptops, network devices, and AI infrastructure for vulnerabilities below the operating system. Maintains a database of over 12 million known-good firmware hashes for continuous monitoring. | Portland, United States | Private | $111M |
| 64 | PlanetScale | PlanetScale is a serverless database platform built on Vitess, the open-source database clustering system originally created to scale YouTube. The platform provides horizontally scalable MySQL and PostgreSQL databases with database branching, non-blocking schema changes, and sharding without downtime. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $105M |
| 65 | MotherDuck | MotherDuck is a serverless cloud data warehouse built on the open-source DuckDB database. The platform combines the speed and simplicity of local analytics with the scalability of the cloud, enabling data teams to query data without managing infrastructure. | Seattle, United States | Private | $100M |
| 66 | Gimlet Labs | Multi-silicon inference cloud platform that allows AI workloads to run simultaneously across diverse hardware types (CPUs, GPUs, high-memory systems). Claims 3x-10x inference speedup. Partners with NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, ARM, Cerebras. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $92M |
| 67 | Alluxio | Alluxio is a data orchestration and AI acceleration platform that provides a unified data access layer between compute frameworks and storage systems. Originating from founder Haoyuan Li's PhD research at UC Berkeley's AMPLab, the platform enables high-performance data access across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Alluxio powers workloads at nine of the world's ten largest internet companies. | San Mateo, United States | Private | $82M |
| 68 | Fluent Commerce | Global provider of distributed order management systems (OMS) that helps retailers and brands manage inventory availability and fulfillment at scale. Serves customers including Prada Group, L'Oreal, LVMH, Kingfisher, and JD Sports with cloud-native, AI-ready order management. | Sydney, AU | Private | $67M |
| 69 | Palo Alto Networks | Palo Alto Networks is a global cybersecurity leader that provides next-generation firewalls, cloud security, and AI-powered threat detection to enterprises and governments worldwide. The company pioneered application-aware firewall technology that transformed network security. | Santa Clara, United States | Public | $65M |
| 70 | Synchronoss Technologies | Personal cloud platform providing secure, white-label cloud storage and digital identity management solutions to global telecom operators. Founded by Stephen Waldis, IPO in 2006. Acquired by Lumine Group (Constellation Software subsidiary) for $258M enterprise value. | Bridgewater, US | Acquired | $57M |
| 71 | Convex | Convex is an open-source reactive backend-as-a-service platform that provides a real-time database, serverless functions, and client SDKs for building live-updating web and mobile apps. The platform integrates a TypeScript-based document store and function runtime for queries and mutations. Convex went open source in March 2024. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $54M |
| 72 | CoreOS | CoreOS developed Container Linux, a lightweight Linux-based operating system designed for massive server deployments, along with key container infrastructure tools including etcd, rkt, and the Tectonic Kubernetes platform. Founded through Y Combinator (S13), the company built open source infrastructure to enable Google-scale operations for any organization. CoreOS was a founding member of both the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and the Open Container Initiative (OCI). Acquired by Red Hat in January 2018 for $250 million. | San Francisco, US | Acquired | $48M |
| 73 | Knox Systems | FedRAMP-as-a-service platform that gives SaaS vendors the fastest path to government security authorization, reducing first-year costs by 90% with an AI-managed pre-authorized cloud environment. | San Francisco, United States | Private | $32M |
| 74 | Claros | Develops chip-level power infrastructure with integrated voltage regulators that funnel power directly to chips, cutting heat conversion loss and enabling 30% energy savings. Also building modular DC-powered data centers. | McLean, United States | Private | $30M |
| 75 | Gorilla Technology | Global provider of AI-powered edge computing, video intelligence, IoT security, and cybersecurity solutions. Specializes in edge AI for real-time data processing, serving government institutions, telecom companies, and enterprises across Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and globally. | London, UK | Public | $15M |
| 76 | Arweave | Arweave is a decentralized permanent data storage network that uses a blockchain-based structure called a "blockweave" to store data indefinitely. The protocol enables a "permaweb" where websites, applications, and files are preserved permanently without risk of deletion or censorship. | London, United Kingdom | Private | $13M |
| 77 | Heroku | Cloud platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and manage applications entirely in the cloud. One of the first PaaS platforms, originally focused on Ruby on Rails applications. Pioneered the developer-first cloud deployment model. | San Francisco, US | Acquired | $13M |
| 78 | Upstash | Upstash is a serverless data platform that provides managed Redis, Kafka, and QStash services with per-request pricing. The platform targets developers building data-intensive and edge computing applications, scaling to zero when idle and serving over 85,000 developers. | San Jose, United States | Private | $12M |
| 79 | Callosum | AI infrastructure startup developing system-level software that orchestrates AI workloads across mixed chip architectures from different manufacturers including Nvidia, AMD, AWS Trainium, Cerebras, and SambaNova. Inspired by neuroscience research showing intelligence emerges from diverse specialized components. Claims 2x accuracy, 7x faster performance, and 4x lower cost vs. homogeneous hardware setups. | London, GB | Private | $10M |
| 80 | Apcera | Apcera was a cloud infrastructure company that built a policy-driven container management platform called Continuum, enabling enterprises to deploy, orchestrate, and govern containers and applications across on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure. Founded by Derek Collison (creator of Cloud Foundry at VMware), the company was acquired by Ericsson in 2014 before being wound down as Docker and Kubernetes won the market. | San Francisco, United States | Acquired | $7M |
| 81 | JetScale AI | AI-powered cloud infrastructure optimization platform that uses agentic AI to detect cloud inefficiencies, deliver actionable remediation plans, and generate compliant infrastructure-as-code (Terraform-ready) for engineering teams. Tasks that previously required weeks of specialized cloud expertise can be completed in minutes. The platform is read-only in cloud environments, generating reviewable code rather than making direct changes. | Montreal, Canada | Private | $5M |
| 82 | Big Network | Big Network is a software innovator focused on ultra-reliable networking, addressing edge deployment challenges including multi-WAN resilience, static IP continuity over satellite and wireless networks, and transparent Layer 2 services. The company's cloud-managed connectivity platform was merged into Contrivian in February 2026. | New York, US | Acquired | $2M |
| 83 | Microsoft | Global technology company producing Windows, Office, Azure cloud services, and enterprise software. A major investor in OpenAI and leader in AI integration across its products. | Redmond, US | Public | - |
| 84 | Alphabet | Parent company of Google. Operates the world's largest search engine, YouTube, Google Cloud, Android, and Waymo. A leader in AI research through DeepMind and Google Brain. | Mountain View, US | Public | - |
| 85 | Amazon | The world's largest e-commerce marketplace and a leading cloud computing provider through Amazon Web Services (AWS). Also operates in advertising, streaming, and AI. | Seattle, US | Public | - |
| 86 | Contrivian | Contrivian specializes in mission-critical connectivity for enterprise and government organizations. The company integrates multiple network types (fiber, broadband, LTE/5G, LEO satellite) through its proprietary Lighthouse platform for real-time performance monitoring and dynamic traffic routing, providing custom-designed connectivity solutions in 160+ countries. | San Francisco, US | Private | - |