Canva
CEO: Melanie Perkins
Valuation: $15 B
Design Software
Australian entrepreneur Perkins and cofounder and COO Cliff Obrecht have had a remarkable year. They married in January. Three months later, Canva, which they founded in 2012 in Perth (a third cofounder, Cameron Adams, joined a little later), raised $71 million at a $15 billion valuation— enough to make both of them billionaires, worth roughly $2 billion apiece. Now 55 million customers, 3 million paying— includingAmerican Airlines, Kimberly-Clark and Salesforce— use their online design and publishing tools.
ServiceTitan
CEO: Ara Mahdessian
Valuation: $9.5 B
Contractor Software
Mahdessian and cofounder Vahe Kuzoyan, who met on a ski trip for Armenian college students, originally built ServiceTitan to help their fathers, both contractors, run their businesses better. Today, the software provider, whose investors include Tiger Global and Sequoia, is used by more than 7,500 trade customers involved in HVAC, plumbing, electrical and other home and commercial services.
Klaviyo
CEO: Andrew Bialecki
Valuation: $9.5 B
Marketing Automation
More than a decade ago, Bialecki was working on a running-themed website to help users find roadraces and training maps. But he couldn’t find software to help him customize their experiences based on their information. That problem became the inspiration for Klaviyo, founded in 2012 to help analyze customers’ transactional and behavioral data. The fast-growing company raised $320 million in May, doubling its valuation to $9.5 billion in seven months.
Hopin
CEO: Johnny Boufarhat
Valuation: $7.75 B
Virtual Event Platform
Cloud 100 newcomer Hopin’s platform enables customers like Twitch and the New York Jets to create online events by mimicking in-person ones with features like reception, expo, networking and more. Founded by 27-year-old London-based engineer Boufarhat in 2019, the business has boomed during the pandemic. Annual recurring revenue already topped $85 million in the past 12 months, and the company has attracted more than $1 billion from top-tier investors like Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst and IVP.
PERKINS: DEAN MACKENZIE FOR FORBES; BIALECKI: BARRY CHIN-THE BOSTON GLOBE/GETTY IMAGES