Algolia • RANK: 39

CEO: BERNADETTE NIXON* VALUATION: $2.25 BILLION SEARCH API PLATFORM

Founded in 2012 by two Frenchmen, Julien Lemoine and Nicolas Dessaigne, Algolia found a niche offering enterprise search and discovery to businesses including Medium and Slack. It debuted on the Cloud 100 in 2018 but dropped off a year later. Dessaigne soon began looking for his own replacement. In came Bernadette Nixon, former CEO of Alfresco, in May 2020. The move has paid off: Algolia now powers 30 billion search requests a week across 12,000 customers, all while launching its second-ever product, a recommendations engine, in May 2021 and reaching a $2.25 billion valuation that July. Today, Algolia is “more than just a search bar,” Nixon says. “It’s inspiring people by predicting what they’re looking for.”