SoftwareLore

Directory 25 companies

Software companies and the people who built them

Every company profiled on SoftwareLore, numbered by founding date like elements in a periodic table. Each profile covers the founders, current leadership and ownership, business model, key milestones and the software the company makes.

  • Data & AI
  • Business Software
  • Design & Engineering
  • Collaboration
  • Developer Tools
  • Security & Infrastructure
  • Games
  • Internet & Community
  1. 01 1972 SAP Business Software
  2. 02 1977 Oracle Data & AI
  3. 03 1982 Autodesk Design & Engineering
  4. 04 1983 Intuit Business Software
  5. 05 1991 Epic Games Games
  6. 06 1996 Zoho Business Software
  7. 07 1996 Valve Games
  8. 08 2000 JetBrains Developer Tools
  9. 09 2002 Atlassian Collaboration
  10. 10 2003 Palantir Data & AI
  11. 11 2004 ServiceNow Business Software
  12. 12 2005 Automattic Internet & Community
  13. 13 2005 Mozilla Internet & Community
  14. 14 2006 HubSpot Business Software
  15. 15 2007 MongoDB Data & AI
  16. 16 2007 Dropbox Collaboration
  17. 17 2009 Cloudflare Security & Infrastructure
  18. 18 2011 CrowdStrike Security & Infrastructure
  19. 19 2012 Canva Design & Engineering
  20. 20 2012 Figma Design & Engineering
  21. 21 2012 Discord Internet & Community
  22. 22 2012 Snowflake Data & AI
  23. 23 2013 Databricks Data & AI
  24. 24 2013 Notion Collaboration
  25. 25 2014 GitLab Developer Tools
5 companies

Data & AI

No.CompanyFoundedHeadquartersStatusSoftware
02 Oracle 1977 Austin, Texas, United States NYSE: ORCL Oracle Database, Java, MySQL, NetSuite, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
10 Palantir 2003 Aventura, Florida, United States (Miami area) NASDAQ: PLTR Palantir Foundry, Palantir AIP, Palantir Gotham
15 MongoDB 2007 New York City, New York, United States NASDAQ: MDB MongoDB, MongoDB Atlas
22 Snowflake 2012 Menlo Park, California, United States NYSE: SNOW Snowflake AI Data Cloud, Streamlit
23 Databricks 2013 San Francisco, California, United States Private Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, Apache Spark, MLflow
5 companies

Business Software

No.CompanyFoundedHeadquartersStatusSoftware
01 SAP 1972 Walldorf, Germany FWB: SAP; NYSE: SAP SAP S/4HANA, SAP HANA, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Concur
04 Intuit 1983 Mountain View, California, United States NASDAQ: INTU TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma, Mailchimp
06 Zoho 1996 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Private Zoho CRM, Zoho One, Zoho Books, Zoho Mail
11 ServiceNow 2004 Santa Clara, California, United States NYSE: NOW ServiceNow AI Platform, ServiceNow IT Service Management
14 HubSpot 2006 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States NYSE: HUBS HubSpot Smart CRM, HubSpot Marketing Hub
3 companies

Design & Engineering

No.CompanyFoundedHeadquartersStatusSoftware
03 Autodesk 1982 San Francisco, California, United States NASDAQ: ADSK AutoCAD, Revit, Autodesk Maya, Autodesk Fusion
19 Canva 2012 Sydney, Australia Private Canva, Affinity
20 Figma 2012 San Francisco, California, United States NYSE: FIG Figma, FigJam
3 companies

Collaboration

No.CompanyFoundedHeadquartersStatusSoftware
09 Atlassian 2002 Sydney, Australia NASDAQ: TEAM Jira, Confluence, Trello, Loom, Bitbucket
16 Dropbox 2007 San Francisco, California, United States NASDAQ: DBX Dropbox, Dropbox Sign, DocSend
24 Notion 2013 San Francisco, California, United States Private Notion, Notion Calendar
2 companies

Developer Tools

No.CompanyFoundedHeadquartersStatusSoftware
08 JetBrains 2000 Amsterdam, Netherlands Private IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, Kotlin
25 GitLab 2014 All-remote (no headquarters) NASDAQ: GTLB GitLab, GitLab Duo
2 companies

Security & Infrastructure

No.CompanyFoundedHeadquartersStatusSoftware
17 Cloudflare 2009 San Francisco, California, United States NYSE: NET Cloudflare CDN, Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare One, 1.1.1.1
18 CrowdStrike 2011 Austin, Texas, United States NASDAQ: CRWD CrowdStrike Falcon
2 companies

Games

No.CompanyFoundedHeadquartersStatusSoftware
05 Epic Games 1991 Cary, North Carolina, United States Private Unreal Engine, Fortnite, Epic Games Store
07 Valve 1996 Bellevue, Washington, United States Private Steam, Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2
3 companies

Internet & Community

No.CompanyFoundedHeadquartersStatusSoftware
12 Automattic 2005 San Francisco, California, United States Private WordPress, WooCommerce, Tumblr
13 Mozilla 2005 San Francisco, California, United States Subsidiary Firefox, Thunderbird
21 Discord 2012 San Francisco, California, United States Private Discord

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