Costco Wholesale Corporation is a global membership-based warehouse retailer founded in 1983 through the Price Club–Costco merger and headquartered in Issaquah, Washington. The company operates a no-frills, high-volume, low-margin model that trades selection breadth for price leadership and operational efficiency. In fiscal 2024, Costco generated roughly $242 billion in revenue, growing in the mid-single digits…
nCino is a vertical SaaS company that provides a cloud-based banking operating system used by banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions to digitize onboarding, lending, and account-opening workflows. The platform is built natively on Salesforce, which lets customers use nCino as a process and data layer on top of their existing CRM and front…
Company Overview – “Asset-Heavy Ops, Software-Heavy Margins” Samsara (NYSE: IOT) is a connected-operations software company that helps fleets, industrial firms, and public-sector agencies monitor vehicles, equipment, sites, and workers using IoT sensors feeding into a cloud platform. Founded in 2015 by Sanjit Biswas and John Bicket (the Meraki founders) and headquartered in San Francisco, it…
Asana is a work management SaaS platform founded in 2008 that helps teams coordinate projects, workflows, and cross-functional initiatives through structured tasks, timelines, and automation. The company generated roughly $700 million in FY2024 revenue, growing at a mid-teens rate as enterprises adopt structured coordination tools to reduce operational friction. Asana is headquartered in San Francisco,…
Salesforce is a global leader in cloud-based enterprise software, best known for its CRM (Customer Relationship Management) suite that spans sales, service, marketing, commerce and analytics. It offers a broad set of cloud applications — including Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud — and supports heavy customization, integrations, AI-powered features and enterprise workflows. …
Snapshot GitLab is a publicly traded software company offering an end-to-end DevSecOps platform that supports version control, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), security, compliance, and software project planning. It serves a broad range of customers — from small projects to large enterprises — using a freemium model: open-source core features, paid tiers for advanced enterprise functionality. …
Company overview CrowdStrike provides cybersecurity solutions, focused largely around its cloud-native “Falcon” platform for endpoint protection, threat detection and response, identity and cloud security, and related services. The company sells its services on a subscription / recurring-revenue basis. It targets enterprises and organizations needing robust defense across devices, cloud infrastructure, and identity surfaces. CrowdStrike is…
1. Company overview – Nutanix at a glance Nutanix, Inc. is a hybrid multicloud and enterprise virtualization software company that started in hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and now sells a full cloud platform spanning compute, storage, networking, virtualization, Kubernetes, databases, and desktop-as-a-service. Founded in 2009 and public since 2016, it generated roughly $2.54 billion in revenue…
1. Overview – Cloud-native zero-trust security at scale Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) is a cloud security company that delivers secure internet and private app access through a multi-tenant, cloud-native platform built around zero trust principles. It sits at the heart of the fast-growing Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Security Service Edge (SSE) markets, replacing legacy…
Carvana Co. is a U.S.-based e-commerce platform that enables customers to buy and sell used cars online, and offers vehicle delivery and pick-up services. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona. It reported substantial revenue growth in recent years driven by rising used-car demand and its verticalised business model. Carvana…