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It's missing so many companies it's hard to know where to begin. The list probably represents only a fraction of billion dollar software companies founded over the last decade. It's heavily skewed towards both American and b2c companies.

Missing ones include: Vancl, Youku, Renren, Wonga, Bazaarvoice, Conduit, Klarna, nicira, Homeaway, Workday, Changyou, ServiceNow, Splunk, Ocado, Giant, Guidewire, DealerTrack, SuccessFactors, SourceFire, ArcSight, Popcap, Yandex, Betfair, ZipCar, Baidu, ExactTarget, etc.




Thanks for the doc!


sorry for lifting the data without asking you first. Seemed expedient.


No problem. Added link to the post. Thought of doing that, but didn't expect the list to explode.


So... is the title still correct, or is it more often? Three months, two?


ITA Software was acquired by Google for $700M. Endeca was acquired by Oracle for $1B. And what about VMWare?


Great list. I added a bunch of them. I should clarify that in the context of the quote, he was mostly talking about mostly software tech companies founded (or for the most part operated) in US. Hence, I did not include the China and Russia companies. I also classify ZipCar as not really a software tech company.


I think its a common mistake to write off companies which have a physical aspect as "not software companies".

The company I work for delivers food to people, but we're very much a software company in that we couldn't possibly compete with the huge players in this market without smart software which lets us run it with the minimum of people. I'm fairly sure ZipCar are the same - there are many car hire organisations, but not that many which can get by without having to rent premises and huge numbers of people to look after car keys and signing in and out.


Well, then why do you count Vente Privée or Rovio ? ;-)


Spotify is not american as well


True dat. Thanks for pointing out!


I think you missed the "in the U.S."


That was added after my comment.




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