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List of the 1000 Fastest Growing SaaS Companies
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Karl Kangur
SaaS 1000 2Q'18 — Official list of the world's fastest-growing SaaS companies
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SaaS 1000 is a list that highlights the top growing SaaS companies based on a proprietary algorithm that includes hiring trends, growth indicators and number of employees. In order to rank on the SaaS 1000, you must have between 40 and 1000 employees.

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Daniel Kempe
Interesting. Why only companies with more than 40 employees?
Thomas Smale
Maker
@danielkempe thanks! We find that once companies hit around 40 employees, they start reporting employee numbers more reliably. Below that it's harder to reliably track and verify the data. For our next list, we're going to test using some different data sources and ways of tracking that data. Ideally we would like small companies to be able to get on this list (say, 10 employees) but right now we can be confident with the accuracy of our data. We also could have used other similar numbers (e.g. 30 or 50). Thanks for the feedback!
Saravana Kumar
Great to be on the list (#303/1000) came as a real surprise. Interesting initiative.
Federico Jorge
This is a massive list, thanks for the huge work on this. Is the data self reported?
Thomas Smale
Maker
@federicojorge thank you very much, the team have been working hard at this for months now :) With regards to data, it is manually researched and pulled from a number of sources to make sure it is as accurate as possible. It will be difficult to make it 100% accurate, particularly as head count can change so quickly in small companies (hence why we do the list quarterly, not yearly) but we have found it is more accurate than letting companies tell us themselves and not verifying.
Thomas Smale
Maker
Thanks for hunting us @kangurkarl! The team at FE International has partnered with SaaS 1000 to put together the official list of the fastest growing SaaS companies in Q2 2018. Congratulations to all of those featured!! Annual lists like Inc 5000 are great but they are not specific for SaaS and are often a year behind. Small companies grow quickly! The key metric we look at is employee growth and the list is completely free to use. Please leave feedback in the comments as we will be here all day. We're already planning on how to make the Q3 list bigger and better.
Veronika
This is a nifty list, thanks for including Sendible. We are at #253 as a small company with no external investment so feeling pretty good! ☺️
Thomas Smale
Maker
@socialveronika that's awesome! There are lots of bootstrapped companies on the list which is amazing to see. We are going to try adding a sub-category next time so can see the list by funding status. Seems unfair to compare funded company employee growth versus bootstrapped.
Jim Coleman

Data is king and to have a list like this of the top players in SaaS is incredibly valuable. I'm looking forward to this being part of my regular routine.

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Fantastic tool to keep your finger on the pulse of the movers and shakers in the SaaS industry. Been waiting for something like this!

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None

Jaimee Gilbertson

Enjoying this product so far. Can't wait to see what's to come!

Pros:

Very easy to navigate, and provides some critical information on the best SaaS businesses out there!

Cons:

None yet!

Natalia Krupina

Check it out!

Pros:

I'm building a content website but am always on the lookout for tech disruptors out there!

Cons:

Not enough people know about it!

Alex Kelly
Thanks @thomas_smale, excited to be included on this list! Some fun times ahead for Ceros 😃
Ismael Wrixen

Very helpful for marketing as this helps us establish who to target for the next 6 months!

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Super helpful! Great to see this information which is very usually hard to come by!

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Should be monthly :)

Amber Kitay
database on the website doesn't filter very well... how can this be downloaded as csv?