Congratulations to the AppExchange Partners on the 2021 Forbes Cloud 100

Leslie Tom
AppExchange and the Salesforce Ecosystem
4 min readAug 10, 2021

The Forbes Cloud 100 celebrates the definitive list of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world. This virtual summit is full of insights from some of the most influential CEOs, founders, and business leaders around the globe. One of the most influential events throughout the SaaS industry, the 2021 Forbes Cloud 100 struck a slightly different tone than in years past, reflecting on the challenges of 2020 while simultaneously projecting optimism in the unlimited potential of the future.

The Forbes Cloud 100 judges, composed of public cloud CEOs and leadership, evaluated companies on four criteria: estimated valuation, operating metrics, people and culture, and market leadership. This year, Forbes named AppExchange partners as leaders, as well as many Salesforce Ventures companies.

As our way of saying congratulations to those companies, we’re highlighting those AppExchange partners that made the esteemed list.

6sense

6sense is an account engagement platform that provides intelligence on who is in-market to buy, what products, when they will buy, and where they are in the buyer’s journey.

Discover 6sense Sales Intelligence on AppExchange >>

ActiveCampaign

Create personalized experiences across the entire customer lifecycle. Use ActiveCampaign’s campaign management, marketing automation, and email marketing tools to send targeted follow-ups within Salesforce.

Discover ActiveCampaign on AppExchange >>

Attentive

Attentive helps brands create customer-first connections with personalized text messaging. Powerful tools and expert advice help you build and refine your mobile messaging strategy.

Check out Attentive on AppExchange >>

Automation Anywhere

Automation Anywhere is a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) bot to work side-by-side with human workers automating repetitive, mundane tasks and liberating people to focus on higher-level business initiatives.

Find Automation Anywhere RPA Bots for Salesforce on AppExchange >>

Celonis

Celonis, a process mining solution, helps eliminate system complexity with its Execution Management System. Increase sales execution capacity by analyzing process-related data in real-time, identifying execution gaps, and taking action to close them.

Find Opportunity Management Execution App by Celonis on AppExchange >>

Cloudinary

Developers and marketers use Cloudinary to quickly and easily create, manage and deliver their digital experiences across any browser, device, and bandwidth. With Cloudinary, store, transform, optimize, and deliver all your media assets with easy-to-use APIs, widgets, or user interfaces.

Check out Cloudinary for Page Designer on AppExchange >>

Freshdesk (Freshworks)

Freshworks believes in business software that’s ready to go, easy to set up and use, and requires minimal customization. It’s Freshdesk solution makes customer engagement accessible to businesses of all sizes.

See Freshdesk on AppExchange >>

Highspot

Highspot surfaces the best content, guidance, training, coaching, and engagement intelligence for each lead, contact, and opportunity–enabling every rep at the moment of action. With deeply integrated Highspot and Salesforce data, pinpoint which behaviors are driving results then reinforce them across your team.

Discover Highspot Sales Enablement on AppExchange >>

Icertis

Icertis provides powerful, intuitive contract lifecycle management (CLM) tools within Salesforce. Manage end-to-end contract lifecycle, create contract requests with pre-populated data from Salesforce objects, and track contract progress and status updates.

Check out Icertis Contract Intelligence on AppExchange >>

Lucid

Lucid provides tools that enable sales organizations to visualize their accounts, build scalable processes, and align their revenue team to find the best path to sale and close bigger deals, faster — all within Salesforce.

Check out Lucidchart on AppExchange >>

Mailchimp

Mailchimp’s marketing automation platform helps manage and upload Mailchimp subscribers from Salesforce leads, contacts, and audience views. View Mailchimp campaign results and subscriber activity history in Salesforce.

Check out the Mailchimp Integration App on AppExchange >>

MessageBird

With MessageBird for Salesforce, customer service agents and sales representatives can quickly send and receive messages to and from their contacts across a growing number of channels, such as WhatsAp and SMS, all in one easy-to-use interface.

Discover MessageBird for Salesforce: Multichannel Conversations and Messaging on AppExchange >>

Netskope

Security solution provider Netskope provides visibility and real-time data and threat protection when accessing cloud services, websites, and private apps from anywhere, on any device.

See Netskope Security Cloud on AppExchange >>

OwnBackup

OwnBackup is a cloud data protection and backup system for Salesforce. OwnBackup proactively prevents loss of mission-critical data and metadata with automated backups and rapid, stress-free recovery.

Find OwnBackup: Salesforce Data and Metadata Backup & Recovery on AppExchange >>

Plaid

Plaid builds financial solutions by making it easy, safe and reliable for people to connect their financial data to apps and services.

Check out Bank Connect — Powered by Plaid on AppExchange >>

Stripe

Stripe’s online payments connector supports Salesforce Commerce Cloud payments, order management, and the post-fulfillment process, instantly updated in Stripe and Salesforce.

Discover the Stripe Connector on AppExchange >>

Talkdesk

Cloud contact center solution Talkdesk helps create better customer experiences. Reduce manual tasks and personalize every interaction.

Find Talkdesk for Salesforce on AppExchange >>

Workato

Integrate apps and automate business workflows without compromising security and governance with Workato. You can build powerful ERP integrations to sync all data (eg. purchase orders, customers, products, financials, etc.) seamlessly between Salesforce and other applications.

Find Workato: Advanced Integrations for Salesforce on AppExchange >>

Yotpo

Yotpo is an eCommerce marketing platform for customer reviews, visual marketing, loyalty, referrals, and SMS marketing. Access real-time loyalty data directly inside Marketing Cloud to deliver more personalized, segmented, and intelligent communications.

Find Yotpo Loyalty for Marketing Cloud on AppExchange >>

Zapier

Zapier automates processes by moving information between apps automatically, enabling businesses to focus on their most important work.

Discover Zapier on AppExchange >>

Congratulations again to all the 2021 Forbes Cloud 100 companies! See the full list from Forbes and check out the Forbes Cloud 100 collection page on AppExchange.

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Leslie Tom
AppExchange and the Salesforce Ecosystem

SVP, AppExchange Marketing & Programs. Trusted advisor and advocate for our partners. Evangelist for the Platform and the AppExchange. Views are my own.