Methodology

Designed to be institutional, neutral, and inclusive of all company growth stages.

The methodology for the Enterprise Tech 30 involves two phases: a first phase to identify a candidate list of companies through extensive primary and secondary research; and a second phase to assess and rank the companies through an institutional investor survey.

571 Companies included for selection from an original list of 20k+ VC-backed companies

70% Of data is based on selections outside the VC’s portfolio

10 Per survey participant per stage to administer

Phase I

This year's candidate list included 571 companies; 122 early-stage, 196 mid-stage, 220 late-stage, and 33 giga-stage.

Phase II

The investor survey was designed to capture unbiased perspectives from the participants. Participants were permitted to select up to 10 companies per stage—no more than three of which could come from the participants portfolios.

The methodology for ET30 is based on our research team’s work in startups and venture capital since 2001. Companies cannot apply, pay, or lobby for placement in the ET30. The ET30 is conducted in partnership with a rare group of venture capitalists, and it is our privilege at Wing to work with our colleagues in the industry. The participants span early-, mid-, late-, and multi-stage investment firms, with successful backgrounds and substantial reach in enterprise technology. Collectively, the venture capital firms have invested in 87% of the $1B+ exits and unicorns in enterprise technology since January 2016.

The original candidate list of companies was built through four research sources: 1) companies who received 6 or more votes in last year’s ET30, 2) multiple PitchBook queries from a company universe of thousands of venture-backed companies, 3) Wing’s primary research in identifying, reviewing, and meeting with private companies, and 4) recommendations from the venture capitalists and corporate development heads. 70% of the data signals in ET30 are venture capitalists’ votes on companies outside of their portfolios.

Participation from 96 venture capitalists and 30 corporate development heads

ET30 is conducted in partnership with a prestigious group of venture capitalists and corporate development teams. Investment partners are invited to ET30 based on their track record, expertise, and reputation for discernment in enterprise technology. The assets under management for the venture capital firms ranged from $50 million to $150 billion.

This participant list is not comprehensive. Participants are given the opportunity to participate anonymously.

Elad Gil

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Ramu Arunachalam

General Partner, A.Capital

Ping Li

Partner, Accel

Rich Wong

Partner, Accel

Theresia Gouw

Founding Partner, Acrew Capital

Mark Kraynak

Founding Partner, Acrew Capital

Ravi Belani

CEO, Alchemist Accelerator

Pauline Yang

Partner, Altimeter Capital

Karen Page

General Partner, B Capital

Rashmi Gopinath

General Partner, B Capital

Jay Simons

General Partner, BOND

Ajay Agarwal

Partner, Bain Capital Ventures

Aaref Hilaly

Partner, Bain Capital Ventures

Byron Deeter

Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners

James Cham

Partner, Bloomberg Beta

Ed Sim

Founder and General Partner, Boldstart Ventures

Reid Christian

General Partner, CRV

Max Gazor

General Partner, CRV

Maha Ibrahim

General Partner, Canaan Partners

Joydeep Bhattacharyya

General Partner, Canaan Partners

Gene Frantz

General Partner, CapitalG

Shirish Sathaye

General Partner, Cervin Ventures

Lucas Swisher

Co-COO of Growth & General Partner, Coatue

Greg Sands

Founder and Managing Partner, Costanoa Ventures

Aileen Lee

Founder and Managing Partner, Cowboy Ventures

Alan Cohen

Partner, DCVC (Data Collective)

Jon Sakoda

Founding Partner, Decibel Partners

Christian Jensen

Partner, Co-Head, Private Investments, Dragoneer Investment Group

Kevin Spain

General Partner, Emergence Capital

Jake Saper

General Partner, Emergence Capital

Gaurav Tuli

Partner, F-Prime Capital

John Komkov

Founder and Managing Partner, Fathom Capital

Aydin Senkut

Founder and Managing Partner, Felicis Ventures

Cherian Mathew

Founder and Partner, Firebolt Ventures

Gokul Rajaram

Partner, Firebolt Ventures

Ann Miura-Ko

Co-Founding Partner, Floodgate Fund

Glenn Solomon

Managing Partner, GGV Capital

Alex Crisses

Managing Director, Global Head, New Investment Sourcing and Co-Head, Emerging Growth, General Atlantic

Rudina Seseri

Founder and Managing Partner, Glasswing Ventures

Asheem Chandna

General Partner, Greylock Partners

Hunter Walk

Partner, Homebrew

Will Griffith

Founding Partner, ICONIQ

Doug Pepper

Founding Partner, ICONIQ

Jules Maltz

General Partner, IVP

Preeti Rathi

General Partner, Icon Ventures

Jeb Miller

General Partner, Icon Ventures

Parul Singh

Partner, Initialized Capital

Praveen Akkiraju

Managing Director, Insight Partners

Bucky Moore

Partner, Kleiner Perkins

Arif Janmohamed

Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Matt McIlwain

Managing Director, Madrona Venture Group

S. Somasegar

Managing Director, Madrona Venture Group

Robin Vasan

Founder, Mango Capital

Navin Chaddha

Managing Director, Mayfield Fund

Matt Murphy

Partner, Menlo Ventures

George Bischof

General Partner, Meritech Capital Partners

Rob Ward

Co-Founder and General Partner, Meritech Capital Partners

Pete Flint

Managing Partner, NFX

Promod Haque

Managing Partner, Norwest Venture Partners

Mar Hershenson

Founding Managing Partner, Pear

Noah Carr

Partner, Point72

Satish Dharmaraj

Managing Director, Redpoint Ventures

Scott Raney

Managing Director, Redpoint Ventures

Anand Rajaraman

Partner, Rocketship.vc

Ashvin Bachireddy

Managing Partner, Growth Fund, SV Angel

Jai Das

President and Partner, Sapphire Ventures

Rajeev Dham

Partner, Sapphire Ventures

Stacey Bishop

Partner, Scale Venture Partners

Konstantine Buhler

Partner, Seed/Early, Sequoia Capital

Kais Khimji

Partner, Growth, Sequoia Capital

Tae Hea Nahm

Co-Founding Managing Director, Storm Ventures

Ron Shah

Partner, Stripes

Seth Berman

Co-founder and General Partner, Susa Ventures

Chad Byers

Co-founder and General Partner, Susa Ventures

Liran Grinberg

Managing Partner, Team8

Amol Helekar

General Partner, Technology Crossover Ventures

Alex Doll

Founder and Managing General Partner, Ten Eleven Ventures

Tomasz Tunguz

Founder, Theory Ventures

Andreas Stavropoulos

Partner, Threshold Ventures

Josh Stein

Managing Partner, Threshold Ventures

Vince Hankes

Partner, Thrive Capital

Gaurav Ahuja

Partner, Thrive Capital

Evan Feinberg

Partner, Tiger Global Management

Puneet Agarwal

Partner, True Ventures

Adam D'Augelli

Partner, True Ventures

Andy McLoughlin

Managing Partner, Uncork Capital

Michael Skok

Co-Founder and Partner, Underscore

Brian Ascher

Partner, Venrock

Matt Witheiler

Senior Managing Director, Wellington

Peter Wagner

Founding Partner, Wing Venture Capital

Jake Flomenberg

Partner, Wing Venture Capital

Jonathan Lehr

Co-Founder and General Partner, Work-Bench

Corporate Development Teams

We invited 30 corporate development teams from publicly traded enterprise tech corporations to participate in the Enterprise Tech 30. The corporate development teams participated anonymously due to the sensitive nature of corporate development discussions and activities.

The corporations spanned sectors such as: cloud, collaboration, communication, data, developer platform, hrtech, IoT, networking, payment, productivity, security, storage, systems integration, and vertical. Collectively, the 30 corporations did 48 acquisitions for $36 billion in 2022 and 2023 year-to-date.

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