The OnDemand 100 represents the top emerging companies that are creating new business opportunities in the world of on-demand, cloud computing, and SaaS. The winning companies are creating a complex world of interconnected business intelligence, merging valuable legacy data and systems with vital new streams of information. New application developers, especially those serving the expanding mobile market, now rely on cloud infrastructure to create, deploy, and manage their apps.

Only a few short years ago, the cloud was being warily considered as just another clever marketing buzzword being used to describe something that sounded too good to be true. It’s clear that the buzzword has become reality—and lived up to its promise. Cloud infrastructure is expanding into and enhancing every sector of the technology world. In turn, SaaS and on-demand apps are becoming the norm, letting consumers and business users use technology in even more creative, efficient ways.

Each year, the AlwaysOn editorial team, along with investment and industry experts across the globe scour the entrepreneurial community to identify the top 100 private on-demand, cloud, and SaaS companies that are creating high-growth businesses that offer huge upside potential for investors. The OnDemand 100 companies are leaders amongst their peers and developing radical new approaches and technologies that are likely to push outside the bounds of existing markets. Companies are selected based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.

The Fifth Annual Demand 100 Competition Has Begun!
To help identify this year’s hottest on-demand, cloud, and SaaS startups, we’d like your help. We’re looking for the top emerging private companies that are creating new business opportunities in world of cloud infrastructure, software-as-a-service, and on-demand computing. To nominate a company to the OnDemand 100, please fill in the qualification form. After successful submission, companies will be notified if they meet our criteria for the next step in the process, the CEO interview.

We look forward to sifting through the nominees to find the most disruptive entrepreneurs who are shaking up the on-demand world and creating opportunity and revenue. Let the competition begin!

The companies that have been nominated to the 2014 AlwaysOn OnDemand 100 so far are listed below by category.

Cloud—Application Platforms

AirWatch
www.air-watch.com
Atlanta, GA

Appcelerator
www.appcelerator.com
Mountain View, CA

Big Switch Networks
www.bigswitch.com
Mountain View, CA

Engine Yard
www.engineyard.com
San Francisco, CA

Hortonworks
hortonworks.com
Sunnyvale, CA

July Systems
www.julysystems.com
New York, NY

Kaltura
corp.kaltura.com
New York, NY

MuleSoft
www.mulesoft.com
San Francisco, CA

SoonR
www.soonr.com
Campbell, CA

ThingWorx
www.thingworx.com
Downingtown, PA

Zend Technologies
www.zend.com
Cupertino, CA

Cloud—Infrastructure

Aerohive Networks
www.aerohive.com
Sunnyvale, CA

AlienVault
www.alienvault.com
Campbell, CA

Box
www.box.net
Palo Alto, CA

Coraid
www.coraid.com
Redwood City, CA

Cyan
www.cyaninc.com
Petaluma, CA

Dropbox
www.dropbox.com
San Francisco, CA

GoGrid
www.gogrid.com
San Francisco, CA

Joyent
joyent.com
San Francisco, CA

LiveOps
www.liveops.com
Santa Clara, CA

Midokura
www.midokura.com
San Francisco, CA

Nimble Storage
www.nimblestorage.com
San Jose, CA

Panzura
panzura.com
San Jose, CA

Pertino
pertino.com
Los Gatos, CA

PLUMgrid
www.plumgrid.com
Sunnyvale, CA

Pure Storage
www.purestorage.com
Mountain View, CA

RingCentral
www.ringcentral.com
San Mateo, CA

Skytap
www.skytap.com
Seattle, WA

SnapLogic
www.retailsolutions.com
San Mateo, CA

Spiceworks
www.spiceworks.com
Austin, TX

Violin Memory
www.violin-memory.com
Mountain View, CA

Virtela
www.virtela.net
Greenwood Village, CO

WhiteHat Security
www.whitehatsec.com
Santa Clara, CA

Zetta.net
www.zetta.net
Sunnyvale, CA

Cloud—Management and Tools

AppDynamics
www.appdynamics.com
San Francisco, CA

Cloudera
www.cloudera.com
Burlingame, CA

CloudFlare
www.cloudflare.com
San Francisco, CA

Embrane
www.embrane.com
Santa Clara, CA

ExtraHop
www.extrahop.com
Seattle, WA

FireEye
www.fireeye.com
Milpitas, CA

Good Technology
www.good.com
Sunnyvale, CA

MapR
www.mapr.com
San Jose, CA

MobileIron
www.mobileiron.com
Mountain View, CA

Mocana
www.mocana.com
San Francisco, CA

New Relic
www.newrelic.com
San Francisco, CA

Okta
www.okta.com
San Francisco, CA

OneLogin
www.onelogin.com
San Francisco, CA

Ping Identity
www.pingidentity.com
Denver, CO

SOASTA
www.soasta.com
Mountain View, CA

Symplified
www.symplified.com
Boulder, CO

vArmour Networks
www.varmour.com
Santa Clara, CA

On-Demand Software—Business Mangement Applications

Adaptive Planning
www.adaptiveplanning.com
Mountain View, CA

Anaplan
www.anaplan.com
San Francisco, CA

Appirio
www.appirio.com
San Mateo, CA

Apptio
www.apptio.com
Bellvue, WA

Aria Systems
www.ariasystems.com
San Mateo, CA

Asana
asana.com
San Francisco, CA

Atlassian
www.atlassian.com
Sydney, Australia

Badgeville
badgeville.com
Menlo Park, CA

Coupa Software
www.coupa.com
Headquarters: San Mateo, CA

Domo
www.domo.com
American Fork, UT

FinancialForce.com
www.financialforce.com
San Francisco, CA

Gigya
www.gigya.com
Mountain View, CA

InsideSales.com
www.insidesales.com
Provo, UT

Intacct
www.intacct.com
San Jose, CA

Kenandy
www.kenandy.com
Redwood City, CA

Lattice Engines
www.lattice-engines.com
San Mateo, CA

Moxie Software
www.moxiesoft.com
Mountain View, CA

PivotLink
www.pivotlink.com
San Francisco, CA

Retail Solutions
www.retailsolutions.com
Mountain View, CA

ServiceMax
www.servicemax.com
Pleasanton, CA

Xactly
www.xactlycorp.com
San Jose, CA

YouSendIt
www.yousendit.com
Campbell, CA

Zuora
www.zuora.com
Redwood City, CA

On-Demand Software—Customer Relationship Management

Five9
www.five9.com
San Ramon, CA

HubSpot
www.hubspot.com
Cambridge, MA

Lithium Technologies
www.lithium.com
Emeryville, CA

Marketo
www.marketo.com
San Mateo, CA

Nimble
www.nimble.com
Santa Monica, CA

SugarCRM
www.sugarcrm.com
Cupertino, CA

Veeva Systems
www.veevasystems.com
Pleasanton, CA

On-Demand Software—Tools

Acquia
www.acquia.com
Woburn, MA

BrightEdge
www.brightedge.com
San Mateo, CA

Conviva
www.conviva.com
San Mateo, CA

Mediaocean
www.mediaocean.com
New York, NY

oDesk
www.odesk.com
Menlo Park, CA

Tableau Software
www.tableausoftware.com
Seattle, WA

Zendesk
www.zendesk.com
San Francisco, CA

On-Demand Software—Vertical Applications

Achievers
www.achievers.com
San Francisco, CA

Birst
www.birst.com
San Francisco, CA

Cvent
www.cvent.com
McLean, VA

DocuSign
www.docusign.com
Seattle, WA

Evernote
www.evernote.com
Mountain View, CA

Hearsay Social
hearsaysocial.com
San Francisco, CA

hybris
www.hybris.com
Munich, Germany

Opower
opower.com
San Francisco, CA

Palantir Technologies
www.palantirtech.com
Palo Alto, CA

RetailNext
www.retailnext.net
San Jose, CA

SilkRoad
www.silkroad.com
Chicago, IL

SurveyMonkey
www.surveymonkey.com
Palo Alto, CA