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Top Developer tools companies

IDEs, runtimes, frameworks, and platforms built primarily for engineers.

Ranked by current headcount across the largest Developer tools companies. Refreshed daily.

  1. 1
    Amazon· Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 786.5k employees
    • Founded 1994
  2. 2
    Google· Mountain View, California, United States
    • Series unknown
    • 338.2k employees
  3. 3
    Microsoft· Redmond, Washington, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 229.4k employees
    • Founded 1975
  4. 4
    Fiverr· New York, Iowa, United States
    • Series E
    • 220k employees
    • Founded 2010
  5. 5
    Upwork· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Series unknown
    • 170.5k employees
    • Founded 2015
  6. 6
    Bosch· Gerlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
    • non equity assistance
    • 162.6k employees
  7. 7
    Meta· Menlo Park, California, United States
    • 151.4k employees
    • Founded 2014
  8. 8
    SAP· Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 141.2k employees
    • Founded 1972
  9. 9
    Cisco· San Jose, California, United States
    • Seed
    • 95.6k employees
    • Founded 1984
  10. 10
    Salesforce· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 89.4k employees
  11. 11
    Tencent· Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 89k employees
    • Founded 1998
  12. 12
    Alibaba Group· Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 84.6k employees
    • Founded 1999
  13. 13
    DoorDash· San Francisco, California, United States
    • 78.3k employees
    • Founded 2013
  14. 14
    Airbnb· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 69.2k employees
    • Founded 2007
  15. 15
    Shopee· Singapore, Singapore
    • 63.1k employees
    • Founded 2017
  16. 16
    Grab· Singapore, Singapore
    • 55.2k employees
    • Founded 2012
  17. 17
    Instagram
    • 50.5k employees
    • Founded 2010
  18. 18
    ByteDance· China
    • Secondary
    • 47k employees
    • Founded 2012
  19. 19
    Adobe· San Jose, California, United States
    • Series unknown
    • 41.6k employees
    • Founded 1982
  20. 20
    Meituan· Chaoyang District, Jilin, China
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 40.8k employees
    • Founded 2010
  21. 21
    JD.COM· Xinchengzi, Beijing, China
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 38.9k employees
    • Founded 1998
  22. 22
    Booz Allen Hamilton· McLean, Virginia, United States
    • 37.3k employees
    • Founded 1914
  23. 23
    PayPal· San Jose, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 36.6k employees
    • Founded 1998
  24. 24
    Thomson Reuters· Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • 36.5k employees
  25. 25
    Amdocs· Chesterfield, Missouri, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 35k employees
    • Founded 1982

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Refolk pulled the largest companies in Developer tools from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records, ranked them by current employee count, and kept those with at least 25 employees. The list refreshes once a day.

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