Announcing the First Futuriom 40

What started as just an idea a few months ago has gelled into one of Futuriom's most important projects to date. After months analyzing the most important trends and private companies in the cloud infrastructure market, we have released our first annual Futuriom 40 report. This report is entirely FREE! You can download it here (registration required).

Cloud technology innovation is accelerating and changing the world. Digital transformation efforts are underway worldwide. Digital transformation means that organizations are using the scale and agility of the cloud to deliver better workflow, collaboration, and efficiency for daily work. This trend has been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has highlighted the agility and usefulness of cloud and remote-work technology. Emerging cloud infrastructure and communications technology make all of this possible.

Innovation from the Cloud

In recent years, most of the innovation in cloud and communications infrastructure has come from the venture-backed startup community, which Futuriom follows closely. Some of the great success stories we have followed in this market that have had successful Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in the past few years include Atlassian (TEAM), Cloudflare (NET), Crowdstrike (CRWD), Datadog (DDOG), Fastly (FSLY), Fortinet (FTNT), Okta (OKTA), Snowflake (SNOW), and Twilio (TWLO), and Zscaler (ZS). All of these companies have featured prominently in our research.

Futuriom believes there's a new crop coming -- and the market is rich with innovation that will change the way cloud and communications infrastructure will be built, forever. Open hardware systems, software-defined infrastructure, and cloud systems and cybersecurity driven by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are now the norm.

To build this report, Futuriom analysts combed through a year of our reports and blogs, poured over all our surveys, and debated current trends. We then came up with a list of five key trends and companies that appear to be leading innovation in each area. This report highlights the cloud technology infrastructure trends and the most promising private companies leading these trends.

The First Futuriom 40

To develop our final list of the Top 40 Private Companies, Futuriom analysts gathered data on all the companies included in our reports over the past year, consulted with a team of trusted industry veterans (including end users and investors), and then had a meeting to reach consensus on the top trends and companies for the final list.

The key trends we are seeing: Unified cloud security, distributed cloud networking, cloud automation, edge cloud, and cloud data management.

The top Futuriom 40 private companies are ... (drum-roll):

Alkira, Arrcus, Aryaka Networks, Auth0, Aviatrix, Cato Networks, Cockroach Labs, Cohesity, Couchbase, Darktrace, Databricks, DriveNets, EDJX, Exabeam, Fivetran, Fortanix, HashiCorp, Infiot, Itential, Kentik, Lacework, Macrometa, NetFoundry, Netris.AI, Netskope, PacketFabric, Pensando, Pureport, Rubrik, Saguna Networks, StackPath, SUSE/Rancher Labs, Tigera, Triggermesh, TrueFort, Vapor.io, Versa Networks, Volta Networks, Weaveworks, and ZEDEDA.