When it comes to startups we differentiate Business to costumer model, business to business modes, maybe business to business to costumer model, but lately there is a new model that is hot and investors are putting a lot of money in it which is software to software model. The naming software to software is invented by myself, I was analyzing the new trends and noticed a big number of products are built for end software. Software to software products are useful tools that are designed to be used by other software, the end software may be used by big company or by a freelancer, the end user that own the end software is not important, what is important is the end software that uses the product.
Here are some examples of the hottest software to software startups.
- NPM
Valuation: $48 million
Total raised to date: $18.6 million
Year founded: 2014
HQ: Oakland, CA
What it does: NPM manages Node.js, which is one of the world’s largest software registries and helps JavaScript developers easily share chunks of code
- Snyk
Valuation: $100 million
Total raised to date: $32.04 million
Year founded: 2015
HQ: London
What it does: Snyk automates the process of finding and fixing vulnerabilities in open source software. In other words, it will continuously keep a lookout for security issues — and fix them.
- HeadSpin
Valuation: $500 million
Total raised to date: $31 million
Year founded: 2015
HQ: Mountain View, CA
What it does: HeadSpin allows developers to easily test, debug and monitor mobile apps and sites in real-time on actual devices.
- LaunchDarkly
Valuation: $90 million
Total raised to date: $34.84 million
Year founded: 2014
HQ: Oakland, CA
What it does: LaunchDarkly helps developers test and manage how new features get deployed to an app’s users. With LaunchDarkly, user can manage features and switch on and off test features for different sets of users
- Fastly
Valuation: $925 million
Total raised to date: $220.04 million
Year founded: 2011
HQ: San Francisco
What it does: Fastly calls itself an “edge cloud platform.” It helps large websites work faster by moving data and apps closer to their users.
- Gitlab
Valuation: $1.12 billion
Total raised to date: $165.82 million
Year founded: 2011
HQ: San Francisco
What it does: GitLab is used for project planning to help developers collaborate on code, as well as managing and monitoring code.
