The most promising Silicon Valley startups to watch for in 2017

Here are the top Silicon Valley companies to watch in 2017:

1. Autopilot, a visual marketing software for automating customer journeys.

We’ve grown 4X in revenue and employee count in the last year. We’re looking to 4X that again this year. Exciting times.

2. Slack, an online workroom

Slack is a real-time messaging, archiving, and search tool for modern teams. Slack has also surpassed the popularity of LinkedIn, Twitter and DocuSign on the Okta network.

3. Segment, data analytics software

The company is a platform for collecting customer data and sending it to analytics, marketing, and data warehousing services. Segment provides an API that collects and routes customer data to over 160 different tools and database services

4. Opendoor, a home-selling software

Opendoor is an online home-selling service aimed at streamlining the sales process down to a few days.

5. Stripe, an online payment system

Stripe is an Irish technology company, operating in over 25 countries, that allows both private individuals and businesses to accept payments over the Internet

6. Gusto, HR software

Gusto provides payroll, benefits and HR to modern companies. They have offices in San Francisco and Denver with over 40,000 small business customers

7. Wish, mobile commerce shopping

Wish is the leading mobile commerce platform in North America and Europe. Wish is leveraging a competitive global supply chain of direct suppliers to avoid retail costs

8. Quora, a Q&A social media platform

According to SimilarWeb, Quora receives over 350,000 monthly uniques. The platform has begun to experiment with paid advertising as a revenue model.

9. Zoom

Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-defined conference room solution into one easy-to-use platform.