Algolia Recognized on Forbes Cloud 100 for the Fourth Consecutive Time

September 04, 2025 at 09:00 AM EDT

Forbes again acknowledges Algolia among the world’s most distinguished private cloud companies, celebrating its enduring leadership, growth, culture

Algolia, the AI-native search and discovery platform trusted by more than 18,000 businesses and millions of developers worldwide, today announced its inclusion on the Forbes 2025 Cloud 100 list. This marks the fourth consecutive year that Algolia has appeared on the definitive list of the top 100 private cloud companies globally.

"Appearing on the 2025 Forbes Cloud 100 for the fourth year in a row reflects the trust our customers place in us, and the impact we’re delivering with AI-first search and agentic advancements," said Bernadette Nixon, Chief Executive Officer at Algolia. "Our mission is simple but profound: to create technology that feels effortless, that anticipates, and that scales. This recognition is validation of our team’s clarity of vision and unwavering pursuit of AI and agentic innovation. We’re delighted that Forbes’ rigorous criteria validate this work and our team."

Algolia’s continued recognition by Forbes underscores a year of exceptional progress, including the release of its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. With MCP, Algolia extends its role as the connective tissue of AI — enabling autonomous agents to access, interpret, and act on real-time business content at scale. This innovation reflects Algolia’s belief that AI should not only accelerate experiences, but elevate them.

Earlier this year, Gartner named Algolia a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Search and Product Discovery, noting its strong market presence and ability to execute. Such acknowledgment, alongside Forbes’ Cloud 100 distinction, reinforces Algolia’s position as a company that continually redefines what is possible at the intersection of AI and discovery.

Now in its 10th year, the Forbes Cloud 100 recognizes the most promising and innovative private cloud companies around the world. Hundreds of submissions are evaluated every year and companies are ranked across four factors: market leadership, estimated valuation, operating metrics, and people & culture.

“For the last decade, the Forbes Cloud 100 list has recognized the most innovative private cloud companies in the world, and this year’s standouts are among the most impressive we’ve ever seen,” said Richard Nieva, the Forbes editor of the Cloud 100. “Our honorees highlight the massive sea change that AI has brought to the enterprise, with sky-high growth and valuations.”

“As we mark the 10th year of the Cloud 100 with our 2025 rankings, we celebrate a highly competitive cohort of companies that, for the first time, collectively exceed $1 trillion in value,” said Elliott Robinson, partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. “The cloud is in a period of rapid, AI-driven transformation, with this year’s cohort demonstrating how AI is fundamentally reshaping how the best cloud companies grow, scale, and compete.”

This year, the CEOs of The Cloud 100 and the 20 Rising Stars companies will be honored with a digital content launch, as well as at the exclusive Cloud 100 Celebration in September.

The Forbes 2025 Cloud 100 and 20 Rising stars list is published online by Forbes at www.forbes.com/cloud100 and in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners.

About Algolia

Algolia is a leading provider of AI search solutions, serving over 18,000 businesses and 500,000 developers globally. Renowned for its user-friendly API-First platform and the fastest AI search technology, Algolia is the largest hosted search engine, trusted by businesses and developers for 1.75 trillion searches per year. Backed by a decade of innovation, expertise, and growth, Algolia continuously redefines the search landscape with its commitment to user-friendly solutions, significant scalability, and unmatched speed. Learn more: www.algolia.com.

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About Bessemer Venture Partners

Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations to build and forge long-standing companies. With more than 150 IPOs and 300 portfolio companies in the enterprise, consumer and healthcare spaces, Bessemer supports founders and CEOs from their earliest days through every stage of growth. Bessemer’s global portfolio has included Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, PagerDuty, DocuSign, Wix, Fiverr, Toast and ServiceTitan, and has $19 billion of assets under management. Bessemer has investment teams located in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, London, Bangalore, and Tel Aviv. Born from innovations in steel more than a century ago, Bessemer’s storied history has afforded its partners the opportunity to celebrate and scrutinize its best investment decisions (see Memos) and also learn from its mistakes (see Anti-Portfolio).