The best enterprise tech startups in 2022 are purpose-built to empower developers, crack data challenges, and evolve how teams operate.

The modern enterprise is a digitally-native workplace, built on data and powered by AI. Nearly 75 percent of the 2022 Enterprise Tech 30 cohort is concentrated across the sectors supporting this thesis, as well as being common board-level topics for enterprises in today’s business environment.

15 of 41 companies focus on empowering developers to solve challenges and work better. Nine companies in this year’s ET30 focus on the modern data stack, and nine on workplace automation. Many, notably, span multiple categories.

Early Stage

$35M or less

Mid Stage

$35M - $150M

Late Stage

$150M or more

Giga Stage

$1B or more

The Enterprise Tech 30

Company Industry Employees CEO Funding
WorkOS
Developer Platform 28 Michael Grinich 18.4 M
Tailscale
Security 31 Avery Pennarun 17.3 M
Airplane
Developer Platform 13 Ravi Parikh 8.5 M
Linear
Developer Platform 23 Karri Saarinen 17.2 M
Hex
Data & Analytics 33 Barry McCardel 21.5 M
Prisma
Data & Analytics 58 Søren Bramer Schmidt 23.5 M
Middesk
FinTech 50 Kyle Mack 20 M
Roam Research
Productivity & Collaboration Tools 12 Conor White-Sullivan 12.4 M
Redpanda
Data & Analytics 64 Alexander Gallego 65.5 M
n8n.io
Low-code Automation 26 Jan Oberhauser 13.5 M
Modern Treasury
FinTech 110 Dimitri Dadiomov 133.1 M
Hugging Face
Developer Platform 133 Clement Delangue 64.9 M
Retool
Developer Tools 130 David Hsu 89.6 M
Abnormal Security
Security 216 Evan Reiser 74 M
Monte Carlo
Data & Analytics 50 Barr Moses 101 M
Panther Labs
Security 85 Jack Naglieri 140.5 M
Tray.io
Low-code Automation 291 Rich Waldron 124.3 M
Drata
Security 150 Adam Markowitz 128.2 M
Stytch
Security 43 Reed McGinley-Stempel 126.3 M
Snorkel AI
Data & Analytics 130 Alexander Ratner 138.3 M
Figma
Productivity & Collaboration Tools 500 Dylan Field 332.9 M
Canva
Productivity & Collaboration Tools 2500 Melanie Perkins 587.5 M
Benchling
Productivity & Collaboration Tools 700 Saji Wickramasekara 417.8 M
dbt Labs
Data & Analytics 179 Tristan Handy 414 M
Calendly
Productivity & Collaboration Tools 400 Tope Awotona 350.6 M
Gong
Sales Tech 900 Amit Bendov 584.1 M
LaunchDarkly
Developer Tools 431 Edith Harbaugh 332.4 M
Zapier
Productivity & Collaboration Tools 550 Wade Foster 1.3 M
Grafana Labs
Data & Analytics 675 Raj Dutt 329.2 M
Plaid
FinTech 872 Zachary Perret 734.3 M
Airtable
Productivity & Collaboration Tools 700 Howie Liu 1.4 B
Stripe
FinTech 6900 Patrick Collison 2.2 B
Databricks
Data & Analytics 3235 Ali Ghodsi 3.5 B
Snyk
Security 1192 Peter McKay 850 M
Carta
FinTech 2000 Henry Ward 1.2 B
Brex
FinTech 1000 Henrique Dubugras, Pedro Franceschi 1.2 B
Flexport
Shipping & Logistics 2700 Ryan Petersen 2.2 B
Faire
E-Commerce 898 Max Rhodes 1.1 B
TripActions
Productivity & Collaboration Tools 1800 Ariel Cohen 1.6 B
ServiceTitan
Data & Analytics 1600 Ara Mahdessian 1.1 B
DataRobot
Data & Analytics 1613 Dan Wright 1 B
Netskope
Security 1650 Sanjay Beri 1 B
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Trends shaping the future of the enterprise

Digging deeper into the list reveals insights about the trends shaping the future of the enterprise; from product-led growth dominating the stage to security-focused startups rapidly rising in the ranks, to low-code automation tools gaining more prevalence, the awardees collectively speak to the direction of business, markets, and the world.

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