Vlocity

David schmaier (ceo), craig ramsey founders: $105 million Equity raised: $75 million Estimated 2017 revenue: Lead investors: accenture, salesforce ventures, sutter hill

What it does: sells cloud-based customer-management software for industries like insurance and telecommunications. vlocity traces its roots to the 1990s, when schmaier and ramsey worked at oracle with marc benioff, who went on to found salesforce. the idea for vlocity: software that runs on top of salesforce’s products to manage relationships in industries with the worst reputations for customer service. launched in 2014, vlocity has 80 customers in 20 countries, including metlife, t-mobile and the city of new York. salesforce’s venturecapital arm was an early vlocity investor, and vlocity’s headquarters are in salesforce’s san francisco building.