Nominate your company for the tenth annual Forbes Cloud 100 — submissions are open through April 30, 2025.
Think your company deserves a spot among the best in cloud? Apply now through April 30 at thecloud100.com.
Produced in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures, the Cloud 100 honors the world’s top private cloud companies — and this year marks a major milestone: our tenth anniversary. Since its inception, the list has become the definitive ranking of cloud excellence, recognizing companies before they become household names. Alumni include Dropbox, Snowflake, Zoom, and more recently, IPO standouts like Klaviyo and Rubrik.
As generative AI has taken over the tech industry, some of its biggest impacts have been in the enterprise. For example, OpenAI, number one on last year’s Cloud 100, has tallied 1 million paid users for ChatGPT Enterprise, a version of the popular bot tailored for corporate customers. Meanwhile, thanks to the success of the Chinese company DeepSeek, which seemingly developed advanced AI models with a fraction of the resources of American companies, startups everywhere have been focused on more efficient ways to train their models. Even companies not primarily focused on AI, like fintech darling Ramp or design giant Canva, have increasingly incorporated AI tools into their products.
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The Cloud 100 is powered by both quantitative and qualitative analysis. Nominees submit confidential financial metrics (within provided ranges), including valuation, revenue and growth rate. These help inform a financial score, which is combined with a people & culture score — based on headcount, diversity, and employee satisfaction data — and a market leadership score, based on feedback from dozens of public-cloud CEOs and executives. Companies do not pay a fee for list placement or consideration.
Early-stage startups can also apply for the Cloud 100 Rising Stars, a companion list spotlighting 20 promising companies that have raised less than $25 million but are poised to break out. Notable past honorees include Canva and Grafana Labs. Candidates should apply through the same submission process.
The 2025 Cloud 100 list will be published in August with robust editorial coverage, company profiles, and exclusive video features. Later in the year, honorees will be invited to a private event with panels and programming celebrating cloud’s brightest innovators.
Nominate your company today at thecloud100.com. Deadline: April 30.
