I read the April 20th, 2009 issue of Information Week which detailed The Startup 50. Funding totaled $601.8M with the complete article available here. I thought I’d do a little analysis and categorization myself to see how many “Cloud” or “Virtualization” companies were among the top 50. The results are about 40% (20 out of 50). Quite telling. See the table below:
| Group | Count | % (out of total of 50) |
| 1. Cloud (xaaS) | 12 | 24% |
| 2. Virtualization | 8 | 16% |
| 3. Security | 5 | 10% |
| 4. Hardware, Networks | 5 | 10% |
| 5. App/Systems/Storage Management | 10 | 20% |
| 6. DW, BI, Search, Databases | 7 | 14% |
| 7. App Dev Testing | 6 | 12% |
Here is how I categorized them. Admittedly I went mostly by the Info week description and have yet to do my own digging on the companies I’m not familiar with. Also in a couple of cases I marked them in a cloud/virtualization group and also another but I didn’t do that for all of them so the %ages are still approx. correct.
| Company | Tech Focus | Funding | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| Aerohive Networks | WLAN access points | $24 million | X | ||||||
| Agito Networks * | Fixed-mobile convergence | $20 million | X | ||||||
| Altor Networks * | Virtualization security | $6.5 million | X | X | |||||
| Appirio | Cloud integration and app dev | $16.7 million | X | X | |||||
| Arista Networks * | 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches | Undisclosed | X | ||||||
| Aster Data Systems | Data warehousing | $27 million | X | ||||||
| Aternity | App performance and availability | $14 million | X | ||||||
| Attivio * | Information access | $18 million | X | ||||||
| AutoVirt | Data migration and file virtualization | $8.5 million | X | ||||||
| Bluenog | ECM and BI software | $4 million | X | ||||||
| BlueStripe Software | Application service management | $5 million | X | ||||||
| Central Desktop * | SaaS collaboration | $7 million | X | ||||||
| Cleversafe * | Dispersed storage and retrieval | $15 million | X | ||||||
| Dataupia | Data warehouse appliances | Undisclosed | X | ||||||
| Digital Reef | Information management | $20 million | X | ||||||
| Egnyte | Cloud file server | $2.1 million | X | ||||||
| Elastra | Cloud resource planning & management | $14.6 million | X | ||||||
| Embotics * | Virtual machine management | $4 million | X | ||||||
| Expresso * | SaaS Excel collaboration | $4 million | X | ||||||
| FireEye * | Web malware security | $21 million | X | ||||||
| InstallFree | App and desktop virtualization | $10.2 million | X | ||||||
| Mi5 Networks * | Secure Web gateways | $4 million | X | ||||||
| MokaFive | Desktop virtualization | $18 million | X | ||||||
| Neocleus * | Desktop virtualization | $16 million | X | ||||||
| Nirvanix | Cloud storage | $18 million | X | X | |||||
| Ocarina Networks * | Storage optimization | $31 million | X | ||||||
| Paglo | IT search and management | Undisclosed | X | ||||||
| Palo Alto Networks | Application-aware firewalls | $64 million | X | ||||||
| Pano Logic * | Desktop virtualization | $24 million | X | ||||||
| ParaScale | Grid storage software | $11.3 million | X | ||||||
| Pentaho * | Open source BI software | $25 million | X | ||||||
| RightScale * | Cloud management platform | $17.5 million | X | X | |||||
| Sailpoint Technologies | Identity management software | $20.5 million | X | ||||||
| Skytap | Cloud virtual software testing | $13 million | X | ||||||
| SnapLogic * | Application integration | $2.5 million | X | ||||||
| Spiceworks * | IT management software | $13 million | X | ||||||
| Spigit | SaaS innovation management | $2 million | X | ||||||
| SpringCM | SaaS content management | $14 million | X | ||||||
| 10Gen | Grid management software | $1.5 million | X | ||||||
| 3Tera * | Public/private cloud services | Undisclosed | X | ||||||
| Truviso * | Data analysis and BI | Undisclosed | X | ||||||
| Tufin Technologies | Firewall management and reporting | $3 million | X | ||||||
| uTest | Crowd-source software testing | $7.3 million | X | ||||||
| Virtual Computer | PC life-cycle management | $21 million | X | ||||||
| VKernel | Virtualization management | $4.6 million | X | ||||||
| WorkLight * | Web 2.0 tools | Undisclosed | X | ||||||
| Xangati | Application management | $18 million | X | ||||||
| Xkoto * | Database load balancing | $13 million | X | ||||||
| Yammer | Enterprise microblogging | $5 million | X | ||||||
| Zscaler * | SaaS Web security | Undisclosed | X | X | |||||
| * View Company coverage by InformationWeek | |||||||||
| Count | 12 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 5 | ||
| 24% | 16% | 10% | 10% | 20% | 14% | 10% | |||
Aster and Attivio are both in your “6. DW, BI, Search, Databases” category.
Oops, thanks Seth. I made the correction. Appreciate it.