While cloud companies like Crowdstrike, Datadog and Slack are now publicly-traded stocks — and, in the case of Zoom, a household name — before that, they were high-ranking companies on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, now open for nominations and submissions for a fifth year. Between the 2018 and 2019 lists, 17 companies from the Cloud 100 went public or were acquired. The 2019 Cloud 100 list has accounted for $270 billion in combined market capitalization. Thecloud100 The Cloud 100 SubmissionsSubmissions will remain open through the month of June at thecloud100.com. More information is available there on methodology and 2020’s lineup of judges, already including Blackline CEO Therese Tucker, PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan, Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson and more.

Source: Forbes June 08, 2020 20:25 UTC