{"id":4742,"date":"2014-10-07T07:53:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T14:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wealthfront.com/blog\/?p=4742"},"modified":"2022-01-11T17:12:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T01:12:37","slug":"107-career-launching-tech-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wealthfront.com/blog\/107-career-launching-tech-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"106 Career-Launching Technology Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor’s note: Check out our 2021 Career-Launching Companies List<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

E<\/span>ach year we publish a list of rapidly growing mid-sized private technology companies. In our opinion, these companies are the ideal places for young people to start their careers. Our logic: Nothing early in your career is more important than achieving success \u2014 and nothing signals success more than working for a successful company (for a complete explanation of this logic please see \u00a048 Hot Tech Companies To Build A Career<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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To qualify for our career-launching list a company must have revenues between $20 million and $300 million and be on a trajectory to grow at a rate in excess of 50% over at least the next three years. We built our list by surveying the partners of the following 11 venture capital firms: Accel Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures, Greylock Partners, Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Matrix Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital and the Social + Capital Partnership. We may have missed a few companies that qualify, but we doubt we missed more than a handful.<\/p>\n

Changes Since Last Year<\/h2>\n

This year our list includes 106 companies, up from 100 last year. We added 33 new companies to the list; we deleted nine due to their IPO (we only include private companies), five were removed due to being acquired, one was dropped because it got too big (Gilt Group) and 12 because their growth slowed.<\/p>\n

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As you can see we\u2019re pretty good at identifying companies that are highly likely to succeed.<\/p>\n

Four of our companies will almost certainly graduate from our list next year due to our upper revenue boundary (Airbnb, Cloudera, Dropbox and Uber). One company, Snapchat, doesn\u2019t really qualify on the revenue requirement, but they will blow past our minimum the minute they decide to turn on advertising, so we thought they were well worth including.<\/p>\n

Basic Observations<\/h2>\n

As usual the vast majority (66%) of the companies are based in the San Francisco Bay Area. \u00a0Interestingly, the majority of the Bay Area companies (70%) are now located in San Francisco, not the Silicon Valley. \u00a0This trend has been underway for a while, but it\u2019s interesting to see it in the statistics.<\/p>\n

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New York and Boston are distant competitors to the Bay Area when it comes to hosting companies that are likely to become very large. The Bay Area maintained its share from last year while New York rose slightly and Seattle dropped slightly.<\/p>\n

Some Surprising Facts<\/h2>\n

A number of facts really jumped out of this year\u2019s list:<\/strong><\/p>\n