Forbes Cloud 100 2025

Forbes Cloud 100 2025 by Forbes: 100 startups ranked, led by OpenAI. Full list with movement since the last edition and method notes.

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The 10th annual list, described by Forbes as dominated by AI. OpenAI ranked No. 1 for the third year, followed by Anthropic and Stripe; Bessemer said the cohort surpassed $1 trillion in combined value for the first time.

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Rank	Name	Since 2024
1	OpenAI	No change
2	Anthropic	Up 3
3	Stripe	No change
4	Databricks	Down 2
5	Canva	Down 1
6	Ramp	Up 31
7	Navan	Up 3
8	Anysphere	New
9	Deel	Down 1
10	Notion	Up 9
11	Grammarly	Up 3
12	Celonis	Up 1
13	Grafana Labs	Up 10
14	Netskope	Up 1
15	Gusto	Up 2
16	Rippling	Up 6
17	Tanium	Up 3
18	Miro	Down 7
19	Abnormal AI	New
20	Attentive	Up 5
21	Cohesity	Up 7
22	Arctic Wolf	Down 4
23	Flock Safety	Up 26
24	VAST Data	Up 23
25	AlphaSense	New
26	Perplexity AI	New
27	Checkr	Down 3
28	OneTrust	Down 7
29	Plaid	Up 4
30	Talkdesk	Down 14
31	Carta	Down 5
32	Postman	No change
33	Zoho	Up 2
34	Airtable	Down 4
35	Dataiku	Down 1
36	Fivetran	Up 8
37	Cribl	Up 43
38	Dialpad	No change
39	1Password	Up 4
40	Checkout.com	Up 15
41	Automation Anywhere	Up 4
42	Motive	Up 6
43	Vercel	Up 47
44	Glean	Up 43
45	Airwallex	Up 9
46	Clio	Up 10
47	NinjaOne	New
48	Zapier	Down 17
49	Lambda	Up 35
50	Brex	Down 8
51	Snyk	Down 24
52	Gong	Up 7
53	Intercom	Up 23
54	Guild	Down 13
55	HiBob	Up 3
56	Collibra	Down 4
57	Abridge	Up 43
58	AppsFlyer	Down 18
59	Calendly	Up 2
60	Komodo Health	No change
61	Workato	Down 4
62	Pendo	Up 3
63	Vanta	Up 18
64	Webflow	Down 11
65	Forter	Up 3
66	Benchling	Down 15
67	BrowserStack	No change
68	Midjourney	Down 4
69	Personio	Up 27
70	ClickUp	Down 1
71	Automattic	No change
72	ClickHouse	New
73	Axonius	Up 9
74	Algolia	Up 3
75	DeepL	Up 3
76	Hugging Face	Up 7
77	Harness	Up 14
78	Island	Up 15
79	MaintainX	New
80	ElevenLabs	New
81	Cato Networks	Up 5
82	Cyera	New
83	Runway	Up 11
84	Fireworks AI	New
85	Odoo	New
86	Together AI	New
87	Dbt Labs	New
88	Fal AI	New
89	Mercor	New
90	LaunchDarkly	Down 16
91	Harvey	New
92	Sierra	New
93	Papaya Global	Down 14
94	Brightwheel	Down 5
95	GlossGenius	New
96	Claroty	Down 1
97	Chainguard	New
98	Synthesia	New
99	Clay	New
100	EvenUp	New

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