It's with great excitement that we introduce the ninth annual AlwaysOn Global 250 Top Private Companies list. The AlwaysOn Global 250 represent the top emerging companies in the Global Silicon Valley that are demonstrating significant market traction and pursuing game-changing technologies in digital media, mobile, social media, cloud, and SaaS computing.
The AlwaysOn editorial team, along with partners at SAP, Morgan Stanley, the Blackstone Group, KPMG, Silicon Valley Bank, DCM, Greycroft, and Bridge Bank, as well as industry experts across the globe, scoured the entrepreneurial community to identify the top 250 private companies that are taking old notions of doing things and forging solutions that will lead to industry shake-up and huge value-creation opportunities. The AlwaysOn Global 250 winners were selected from among thousands of domestic and international technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists, and industry insiders. The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2011 list.
"This year's AlwaysOn Global 250 are companies driven by the biggest mega-trends, including the accelerating growth of mobile users, cloud computing, and SaaS offerings, globalization, and the socialization of commerce, and basically everything online," says Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. "This year's winners clearly represent some of the highest-growth opportunities we've seen in the private company marketplace in the history of the global Silicon Valley."
Tony Perkins is the founder and editor of AlwaysOn.
The winners of this competition will be officially honored at:
Silicon Valley Innovation Summit 2011
Meet the New Captains of Innovation
July 27th - 28th, 2011
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA
The ninth annual Silicon Valley Innovation Summit is a two-day gathering of top executives, entrepreneurs, and venture capital investors operating in the Global Silicon Valley. Through a powerful combination of keynote presentations, panel debates, and top company CEO showcases, attendees get an inside look at the cutting-edge technology, business, and political trends creating the most exciting and profitable new opportunities in the world.
For information on the CEO Showcase opportunity, please contact Kayvan Baroumand at kayvan@aoetwork.com.
For more information on group rates or to make reservations by phone, please contact the AlwaysOn Concierge, John Schwartz, at 310.721.9451 or by e-mail at john@aonetwork.com.
Now is the time to get on board. Whether you are looking for new investments, strategic partners or clients in the Global Silicon Valley, Innovation Summit 2011 is the insider event you won't want to miss. We hope to see you there!
The conference starts tomorrow. Register today to secure your 10% savings.
Introducing the AlwaysOn Global 250
Overall Winner: Violin Memory
Category: Cloud and Infrastructure
URL: www.violin-memory.com
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
CEO: Don Basile
Year Founded: 2005
Employees: 150
Investors Include: Rationalwave Capital Partners, Private Equity General Partners, Crossover, Juniper Networks, Toshiba, KPCB
AO Take: Violin Memory is pioneering the future of flash memory in the enterprise data center with memory arrays that accelerate business critical applications and let enterprises virtualize and optimize their IT infrastructures. Specifically designed for sustained performance with high reliability, Violin's memory arrays scale to hundreds of terabytes and millions of IOPS with low, spike-free latency. In June, using Violin's 3200 flash memory arrays, IBM Research scanned 10 billion files 37 times faster than the previous record of 1 billion files in three hours that has stood since 2007. Breaking records is nothing new for Violin: In May, it set a world-record dual-socket TPC-E benchmark with HP. Violin Memory joins a prestigious list of previous AlwaysOn Global 250 overall winners. Since its inception in 2003, the AO250 overall winner's circle includes Google, salesforce.com, MySQL, Skype, YouTube, BlueLithium, Twitter, and SecondMarket.
New Company of the Year: Square
Category: Cloud and Infrastructure
URL: www.squareup.com
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
CEO: Jack Dorsey
Year Founded: 2009
Employees: 70
Investors Include: Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Sequoia Capital, Visa, KPCB, Tiger Technology Global Management
Cloud and Infrastructure
Category Winner: Dropbox
URL: www.dropbox.com
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
CEO: Drew Houston
Year Founded: 2007
Employees: 65
Investors Include: Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners
10gen
www.10gen.com
New York, NY
2e2
www.netstore.co.uk
Newbury, U.K.
3Crowd Technologies
www.3crowd.com
San Mateo, CA
Apptio
www.apptio.com
Bellavue, WA
Atlantis Computing
www.atlantiscomputing.com
Mountain View, CA
Barracuda Networks
www.barracudanetworks.com
Campbell, CA
Box.net
www.box.net
Palo Alto, CA
Coraid
www.coraid.com
Redwood City, CA
Embrane
www.embrane.com
Santa Clara, CA
Eucalyptus Systems
www.eucalyptus.com
Goleta, CA
Joyent
www.joyent.com
Sausalito, CA
MarkLogic
www.marklogic.com
San Carlos, CA
Model Metrics
www.modelmetrics.com
Chicago, IL
Mu Dynamics
www.mudynamics.com
Sunnyvale, CA
NetQin Mobile
www.netqin.com
Beijing, China
Palantir Technologies
www.palantirtech.com
Palo Alto, CA
Palo Alto Networks
www.paloaltonetworks.com
Sunnyvale, CA
RainStor
www.rainstor.com
Gloucester, U.K.
RightScale
www.rightscale.com
Santa Barbara, CA
SenSage
www.sensage.com
San Francisco, CA
SOASTA
www.soasta.com
Mountain View, CA
Spiceworks
www.spiceworks.com
Austin, TX
Symplified
www.symplified.com
Boulder, CO
Violin Memory
www.violin-memory.com
Mountain View, CA
Virsto Software
www.virsto.com
Sunnyvale, CA
Virtustream
www.virtustream.com
Bethesda, MD
WISeKey
www.wisekey.com
Geneva, Switzerland
Service-now.com
www.service-now.com
Solana Beach, CA
Consumer Internet
Category Winner: Angies's List
URL: www.angieslist.com
Headquarters: Indianapolis, IN
CEO: William S. Oesterle
Year Founded: 1995
Employees: ca. 450
Investors Include: Battery Ventures, Lighthouse Capital Partners, Saints Capital
Airbnb
www.airbnb.com
San Francisco, CA
Banjo
www.ban.jo
Palo Alto, CA
Big Fish Games
www.bigfishgames.com
Seattle, WA
BillFloat
www.billfloat.com
San Francisco, CA
Birchbox
www.birchbox.com
New York, NY
Blurb
www.blurb.com
San Francisco, CA
Bonobos
www.bonobos.com
New York, NY
Cartera Commerce
www.cartera.com
Lexington, MA
Chomp
www.chomp.com
San Francisco, CA
Coupons
www.coupons.com
Mountain View, CA
EBates
www.ebates.com
San Francisco, CA
eHarmony
www.eharmony.com
Santa Monica, CA
Extole
www.extole.com
San Francisco, CA
Facebook
www.facebook.com
Palo Alto, CA
Gilt Groupe
www.gilt.com
New York, NY
Glam Media
www.glam.com
Brisbane, CA
Groupon
www.groupon.com
Chicago, IL
Hashable
www.hashable.com
New York, NY
IMVU
www.imvu.com
Palo Alto, CA
Kabam
www.kabam.com
Redwood City, CA
LegalZoom
www.legalzoom.com
Los Angeles, CA
Lending Club
www.lendingclub.com
Redwood City, CA
Lolapps
www.lolapps.com
San Francisco, CA
Machinima
www.machinima.com
Los Angeles, CA
Marqeta
www.marqeta.com
Chicago, IL
Martini Media Network
www.martinimedianetwork.com
San Francisco, CA
MOVIECLIPS.com
www.movieclips.com
Venice Beach, CA
myYearbook
www.myyearbook.com
New Hope, PA
naaptol
www.naaptol.com
Mumbai, India
One Kings Lane
www.onekingslane.com
San Francisco, CA
Opinionaided
www.opinionaided.com
New York, NY
Plastic Jungle
www.plasticjungle.com
Mountain View, CA
Quikr
www.quikr.com
Mumbai, India
Quora
www.quora.com
Palo Alto, CA
Red Beacon
www.redbeacon.com
San Mateo, CA
Scanbuy
www.scanbuy.com
New York, NY
Shazam
www.shazam.com
London, U.K.
ShoeDazzle
www.shoedazzle.com
Los Angeles, CA
Skillshare
www.skillshare.com
New York, NY
SkillSlate
www.skillslate.com
New York, NY
Stardoll
www.stardoll.com
Stockholm, Sweden
SurveyMonkey
www.surveymonkey.com
Palo Alto, CA
Tagged
www.tagged.com
San Francisco, CA
Trulia
www.trulia.com
San Francisco, CA
Tudou
www.tudou.com
Shagnhai, China
Twitter
www.twitter.com
San Francisco, CA
Wikinvest
www.wikinvest.com
San Francisco, CA
Wonga
www.wonga.com
London, U.K.
Yelp
www.yelp.com
San Francisco, CA
Zillow
www.zillow.com
Seattle, WA
Zoosk
www.zoosk.com
San Francisco, CA
Zuberance
www.zuberance.com
San Carlos, CA
Zynga
www.zynga.com
San Francisco, CA
Digital Media
Category Winner: RadiumOne
URL: www.radiumone.com
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
CEO: Gurbaksh Chahal
Year Founded: 2009
Employees: 100
Investors Include: Adams Street Partners, Trinity Ventures, Crosslink Capital, DFJ Esprit
[x+1]
www.xplusone.com
New York, NY
Adap.tv
www.adap.tv
San Mateo, CA
AdChina
www.adchina.com
Shanghai, China
Adgregate Markets
www.adgregate.com
Sausalito, CA
Adknowledge
www.adknowledge.com
Kansas City, MO
Baynote
www.baynote.com
Cupertino, CA
Blip.tv
www.blip.tv
New York, NY
BlogHer
www.blogher.com
Belmont, CA
BOOM! Studios
www.boom-studios.net
Los Angeles, CA
Boxee
www.boxee.tv
New York, NY
Brightcove
www.brightcove.com
Cambridge, MA
BrightRoll
www.adxpose.com
San Francisco, CA
Cardlytics
www.cardlytics.com
Atlanta, GA
Clearspring Technologies
www.clearspring.com
McLean, VA
Collective
www.collective.com
New York, NY
Conduit
www.conduit.com
San Mateo, CA
Everloop
www.everloop.com
Alameda, CA
Everyday Health
www.everydayhealth.com
New York, NY
eXelate
www.exelate.com
New York, NY
Extreme Reach
www.extremereach.com
Needham, MA
Klout
www.klout.com
San Francisco, CA
Peer39
www.peer39.com
New York, NY
PubMatic
www.pubmatic.com
Palo Alto, CA
Quantcast
www.quantcast.com
San Francisco, CA
Rocket Fuel
www.rocketfuelinc.com
Redwood City, CA
Rooftop Media
www.rooftopmedia.net
San Francisco, CA
The Rubicon Project
www.rubiconproject.com
Los Angeles, CA
SavingStar
www.savingstar.com
Waltham, MA
SpecificMedia
www.specificmedia.com
Irvine, CA
Sugar
www.sugarinc.com
San Francisco, CA
Topspin Media
www.topspinmedia.com
Santa Monica, CA
Tremor Video
www.tremormedia.com
New York, NY
uSamp
www.usamp.com
Encino, CA
Ustream.tv
www.ustream.tv
San Francisco, CA
Wildfire Interactive
www.wildfireapp.com
Palo Alto, CA
Enablers and Devices
Category Winner: meebo
URL: www.meebo.com
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
CEO: Seth Sternberg
Year Founded: 2005
Employees: 180
Investors Include: True Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Jafco Ventures, KTB Ventures, Time Warner Investments, Khosla Ventures
8thBridge
www.8thbridge.com
Minneapolis, MN
Bazaarvoice
www.bazaarvoice.com
Austin, TX
BrightEdge
www.brightedge.com
San Mateo, CA
ClickSquared
www.clicksquared.com
Boston, MA
ExactTarget
www.exacttarget.com
Indianapolis, IN
Get Satisfaction
www.getsatisfaction.com
San Francisco, CA
Kaltura
www.corp.kaltura.com
New York, NY
MobiTV
www.mobitv.com
Emeryville, CA
Prime Sense
www.primesense.com
Tel Aviv, Israel
Quantenna Communications
www.quantenna.com
Fremont, CA
SecondMarket
www.secondmarket.com
New York, NY
ShareThis
www.sharethis.com
Mountain View, CA
Skyhook Wireless
www.skyhookwireless.com
Boston, MA
Vivox
www.vivox.com
Natick, MA
XOS digital
www.xosdigital.com
North Billerica, MA
Yodlee
www.yodlee.com
Redwood City, CA
Mobile
Category Winner: Spotify
URL: www.spotify.com
Headquarters: London, U.K.
CEO: Daniel Ek
Year Founded: 2009
Employees: 200
Investors Include: Creandum, Northzone Ventures, Wellington Partners, Founders Fund, KPCB, Accel Partners
Amobee
www.amobee.com
Redwood City, CA
Antenna Software
www.antennasoftware.com
Jersey City, NJ
appbackr
www.appbackr.com
Palo Alto, CA
Appcelerator
www.appcelerator.com
Mountain View, CA
Appia
www.appia.com
Durham, NC
Apptera
www.apptera.com
Sunnyvale, CA
Apsalar
www.apsalar.com
San Francisco, CA
Billing Revolution
www.singleclickcheckout.com
Seattle, WA
Bling Nation
www.blingnation.com
Palo Alto, CA
BOKU
www.boku.com
San Francisco, CA
Booyah
www.booyah.com
San Francisco, CA
Borqs
www.borqs.com
Beijing, China
BoxTone
www.boxtone.com
Columbia, MD
ClairMail
www.clairmail.com
San Rafael, CA
deCarta
www.decarta.com
San Jose, CA
Digital Chocolate
www.digitalchocolate.com
San Mateo, CA
Enterproid
www.enterproid.com
New York, NY
Evernote
www.evernote.com
Mountain View, CA
Expensify
www.expensify.com
Mountain View, CA
Fiberlink
www.maas360.com
Philadelphia, PA
Flipboard
www.flipboard.com
Palo Alto, CA
Flurry
www.flurry.com
New York, NY
Foursquare
foursquare.com
New York, NY
GetJar Networks
www.getjar.com
San Mateo, CA
GOGII
www.textplus.com
Marina del Rey, CA
GroupMe
www.groupme.com
New York, NY
InMobi
www.inmobi.com
Bangalore, India
JiWire
www.jiwire.com
San Francisco, CA
LiveU
www.liveu.tv
Kfar Saba, Israel
Location Labs
location-labs.com
Emeryville, CA
mBlox
www.mblox.com
Sunnyvale, CA
MobileIron
www.mobileiron.com
Sunnyvale, CA
Mocana
www.mocana.com
San Francisco, CA
Mogreet
www.mogreet.com
Venice, CA
Mojiva
www.mojiva.com
New York, NY
Nexage
www.nexage.com
Waltham, MA
Papaya Mobile
www.papayamobile.com
Beijing, China
Path
www.path.com
San Francisco, CA
Payfone
www.payfone.com
New York, NY
Peel
www.peel.com
Santa Clara, CA
Pinger
www.pinger.com
San Jose, CA
Placecast
www.placecast.net
San Francisco, CA
Pocket Gems
www.pocketgems.com
San Francisco, CA
PopCap Games
www.popcap.com
Seattle, WA
Rhomobile
www.rhomobile.com
San Jose, CA
Rovio Mobile
www.rovio.com
Espoo, Finland
Schematic Labs
www.soundtracking.com
San Francisco, CA
Sencha
www.sencha.com
Redwood City, CA
SEVEN networks
www.seven.com
Redwood City, CA
shopkick
www.shopkick.com
Palo Alto, CA
SkyGrid
www.skygrid.com
Sunnyvale, CA
Smaato
www.smaato.com
Redwood Shores, CA
Smarter Agent
www.smarteragent.com
Camden, NJ
Smule
www.smule.com
Menlo Park, CA
Snapfinger
www.snapfinger.com
Alpharetta, GA
Sorenson Media
www.sorensonmedia.com
San Diego, CA
SoundHound
www.soundhound.com
San Jose, CA
Square
squareup.com
San Francisco, CA
Swype
www.swypeinc.com
Seattle, WA
Tango
www.tango.me
Palo Alto, CA
Tapjoy
www.tapjoy.com
San Francisco, CA
TinyCo
www.tinyco.com
San Francisco, CA
UCWEB Technology
www.ucweb.com
Guangzhou, China
uMessage
www.umessage.com.cn
Shanghai, China
Unity
www.unity3d.com
San Francisco, CA
waze
www.waze.com
Palo Alto, CA
Z2Live
www.z2live.com
Seattle, WA
SaaS and Enterprise
Category Winner: Jive
URL: www.jivesoftware.com
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
CEO: Tony Zingale
Year Founded: 2001
Employees: ca. 75
Investors Include: Sequoia Capital, KPCB
www.41st Parameter
www.the41st.com
Scottsdale, AZ
Achilles Group
www.achilles.co.uk
Abingdon, U.K.
Adaptive Planning
www.adaptiveplanning.com
Mountain View, CA
Appirio
www.appirio.com
San Mateo, CA
Atlassian
www.atlassian.com
Sydney, Australia
ccLoop
www.ccloop.com
San Francisco, CA
Certain Software
www.certain.com
San Francisco, CA
Cloud9 Analytics
www.cloud9analytics.com
Redwood City, CA
Couchbase
www.couchbase.com
Mountain View, CA
Covario
www.covario.com
San Diego, CA
Data Robotics
www.drobo.com
Santa Clara, CA
DocuSign
www.docusign.cp
Seattle, WA
Eventbrite
www.eventbrite.com
San Francisco, CA
ezRez Software
www.ezrez.com
San Francisco, CA
Fieldglass
www.fieldglass.com
Chicago, IL
Host Analytics
www.hostanalytics.com
Redwood City, CA
HubSpot
www.hubspot.com
Cambridge, MA
ID Analytics
www.idanalytics.com
San Diego, CA
Infineta
www.infineta.com
San Jose, CA
iPipeline
www.ipipeline.com
Exton, PA
Ixtens
www.ixtens.com
New York, NY
iYogi
www.iyogi.net
New York, NY
Jobvite
www.jobvite.com
Burlingame, CA
Kinamik
www.kinamik.com
Barcelona, Spain
Lithium
www.lithium.com
Emeryville, CA
Lucid Imagination
www.lucidimagination.com
San Mateo, CA
Marin Software
www.marinsoftware.com
San Francisco, CA
Marketo
www.marketo.com
San Mateo, CA
Millennial Media
www.millennialmedia.com
Baltimore, MD
oDesk
www.odesk.com
Menlo Park, CA
PivotLink
www.pivotlink.com
San Francisco, CA
Qualys
www.qualys.com
Redwood Shores, CA
Rally Software
www.rallydev.com
Boulder, CO
Recommind
www.recommind.com
San Francisco, CA
Silverpop
www.silverpop.com
Atlanta, GA
Smartling
www.smartling.com
New York, NY
Splunk
www.splunk.com
San Francisco, CA
SugarCRM
www.sugarcrm.com
Cupertino, CA
Veeva
www.veevasystems.com
Pleasanton, CA
Weatherbill
www.weatherbill.com
San Francisco, CA
Webtrends
www.webtrends.com
Portland, OR
WhiteHat Security
www.whitehatsec.com
Santa Clara, CA
Workday
www.workday.com
Pleasanton, CA
YouSendIt
www.yousendit.com
Campbell, CA
Zuora
www.zuora.com
Redwood City, CA
The 2011 AlwaysOn Global 250 Ones to Watch:
4delite
www.4delite.com
San Francisco, CA
Argos
www.argosagile.com
Fresno, CA
Creaza
www.creaza.com
Oslo, Norway
Document Depository Corp.
www.docdep.com
Philadelphia, PA
Graphight
www.graphight.com
Altadena, CA
Howsimple
www.howsimple.com
Idyllwild, CA
InSequent
www.insequent.com
San Francisco, CA
myERP.com
www.myerp.com
San Francisco, CA
Ohanarama
www.ohanarama.com
Wallingford PA
RewardMe
www.rewardme.com
Mountain View, CA
SalesCrunch
www.salescrunch.com
New York, NY
Socialize
www.getsocialize.com
San Francisco, CA
Soundtracker
www.soundtracker.fm
San Francisco, CA
Thuuz
www.thuuz.com
Palo Alto, CA
Underground Labs
www.uglabs.com
San Francisco, CA
