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Top 10 Developer Platform Unicorn Companies in 2023

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The Developer Platform industry is filled with successful companies that have raised millions of dollars in VC funding that came from some of the top investors in the world.

Many of these successes have turned into unicorns — private companies worth over $1 billion.

If you want to build the next unicorn in the Developer Platform space, these 10 companies should be your inspiration.

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1) Epic Games

Epic Games

Epic Games offers full-featured game engine technology, giving developers everything they need to bring their creative visions to life.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $31.50B (October 2018)
  • Country: United States
  • State: North Carolina
  • City: Cary
  • Started in: 1991
  • Founders: Mark Rein, Tim Sweeney
  • Number of employees: 1,000-5,000
  • Funding: $544.93M
  • Funding rounds: 10
  • Number of investors: 34

You can find their website here.

2) Alchemy

Alchemy

Alchemy is a decentralized application development platform that enables businesses to create dependable decentralized applications.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $10.20B (October 2021)
  • Country: United States
  • State: California
  • City: San Francisco
  • Started in: 2017
  • Founders: Joseph Lau, Nikil Viswanathan
  • Number of employees: 50-100
  • Funding: $545.00M
  • Funding rounds: 5
  • Number of investors: 51

You can find their website here.

3) OutSystems

OutSystems

OutSystems helps enterprises have a new competitive advantage by allowing them to rapidly develop, deploy, and manage enterprise-grade apps.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $9.50B (June 2018)
  • Country: United States
  • State: Massachusetts
  • City: Boston
  • Started in: 2001
  • Founders: Paulo Rosado, Rui Pereira
  • Number of employees: 1,000-5,000
  • Funding: $208.00M
  • Funding rounds: 7
  • Number of investors: 12

You can find their website here.

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4) Sourcegraph

Sourcegraph

Sourcegraph provides universal code search for developers and companies so they can innovate faster and manage billions of lines of code.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $2.62B (July 2021)
  • Country: United States
  • State: California
  • City: San Francisco
  • Started in: 2013
  • Founders: Beyang Liu, Quinn Slack
  • Number of employees: 100-250
  • Funding: $660.00M
  • Funding rounds: 7
  • Number of investors: 11

You can find their website here.

5) Vercel

Vercel

Vercel is a platform that enables users to develop, preview, and ship Jamstack sites.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $2.50B (June 2021)
  • Country: United States
  • State: California
  • City: San Francisco
  • Started in: 2015
  • Founders: Guillermo Rauch
  • Number of employees: 100-250
  • Funding: $313.00M
  • Funding rounds: 4
  • Number of investors: 17

You can find their website here.

6) Forte Labs

Forte Labs

Forte is an economic technology for games that powers NFTs and rich token economies.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.73B (May 2021)
  • Country: United States
  • State: California
  • City: San Francisco
  • Started in: 2018
  • Founders: Brett Seyler, Josh Williams, Kent Wakeford, Kevin Chou, Mahesh Vellanki
  • Number of employees: 100-250
  • Funding: $910.00M
  • Funding rounds: 4
  • Number of investors: 25

You can find their website here.

7) Copado

Copado

Copado is an end-to-end native DevOps platform built for Salesforce.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.20B (September 2021)
  • Country: United States
  • State: Illinois
  • City: Chicago
  • Started in: 2013
  • Founders: Federico Larsen, Philipp Rackwitz
  • Number of employees: 500-1,000
  • Funding: $276.05M
  • Funding rounds: 4
  • Number of investors: 10

You can find their website here.

8) BigPanda

BigPanda

BigPanda provides a platform that enables IT Operations, Network Operations Center, and DevOps teams to more quickly and easily discover, investigate, and resolve IT events.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.20B (January 2022)
  • Country: United States
  • State: California
  • City: Mountain View
  • Started in: 2012
  • Founders: Assaf Resnick, Elik Eizenberg
  • Number of employees: 250-500
  • Funding: $292.50M
  • Funding rounds: 7
  • Number of investors: 11

You can find their website here.

9) Instabase

Instabase

Instabase provides a broad technology platform that maximizes the value of enterprise software, and an app store for business applications that is both secure and cost-effective.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.05B (October 2019)
  • Country: United States
  • State: California
  • City: San Francisco
  • Started in: 2015
  • Founders: Anant Bhardwaj
  • Number of employees: 100-250
  • Funding: $131.94M
  • Funding rounds: 4
  • Number of investors: 10

You can find their website here.

10) Anyscale

Anyscale

With Ray, Anyscale accelerates the creation and deployment of any AI application, on any cloud, at any scale.

Details of the startup:

  • Valuation: $1.00B (December 2021)
  • Country: United States
  • State: California
  • City: San Francisco
  • Started in: 2019
  • Founders: Ion Stoica, Michael I. Jordan, Philipp Moritz, Robert Nishihara
  • Number of employees: 100-250
  • Funding: $160.60M
  • Funding rounds: 3
  • Number of investors: 9

You can find their website here.

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