Hacker News Leaderboard
113 companies with 50+ point Hacker News hits in 2025. Last updated August 17, 2026.
Calendar Year
Company Rankings (2025)
| Rank | Company | 50+ upvote posts | Total upvotes (50+ point posts) | Year Founded | Stage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GitHub | 138 | 92,892 | 2008 | acquired |
| 2 | OpenAI | 71 | 27,803 | 2015 | Series F |
| 3 | Anthropic | 61 | 27,766 | 2021 | Series H |
| 4 | Cloudflare | 43 | 12,341 | 2009 | public |
| 5 | Google Cloud | 23 | 9,451 | 1998 | public |
| 6 | Hugging Face | 20 | 4,675 | 2016 | Series D |
| 7 | Mistral AI | 17 | 9,437 | 2023 | Series C |
| 8 | Zed | 17 | 6,856 | 2021 | Series B |
| 9 | Cursor | 13 | 3,041 | 2023 | Series B |
| 10 | ClickHouse | 12 | 2,080 | 2021 | Series D |
| 11 | Fly.io | 11 | 7,730 | 2016 | Series C |
| 12 | Tailscale | 11 | 4,025 | 2019 | Series C |
| 13 | PlanetScale | 9 | 2,022 | 2018 | Series C |
| 14 | Ollama | 8 | 2,597 | 2023 | pre-seed |
| 15 | JetBrains | 8 | 1,518 | 2000 | bootstrapped |
| 16 | TigerBeetle | 6 | 860 | 2022 | Series A |
| 17 | Qodo | 6 | 485 | 2022 | Series B |
| 18 | PostHog | 5 | 1,842 | 2020 | Series D |
| 19 | Unsloth | 5 | 1,426 | 2023 | pre-seed |
| 20 | Railway | 4 | 1,180 | 2020 | Series B |
| 21 | Modal | 4 | 678 | 2021 | Series C |
| 22 | Hatchet | 4 | 483 | 2023 | pre-seed |
| 23 | Greptile | 4 | 411 | 2021 | Series A |
| 24 | Turso | 3 | 1,124 | 2021 | seed |
| 25 | Lago | 3 | 808 | 2021 | Series A |
| 26 | Supabase | 3 | 658 | 2020 | Series F |
| 27 | Blacksmith | 3 | 556 | 2024 | Series B |
| 28 | Chroma | 3 | 419 | 2022 | seed |
| 29 | Stytch | 3 | 366 | 2020 | Series B |
| 30 | MongoDB | 3 | 335 | 2007 | public |
| 31 | OpenRouter | 3 | 316 | 2023 | Series B |
| 32 | DBOS | 3 | 307 | 2023 | seed |
| 33 | Voyage AI | 3 | 259 | 2023 | acquired |
| 34 | Polar Signals | 3 | 229 | 2020 | seed |
| 35 | Socket | 2 | 1,316 | 2020 | Series C |
| 36 | GitLab | 2 | 1,012 | 2014 | public |
| 37 | Semgrep | 2 | 775 | 2017 | Series D |
| 38 | Sanity | 2 | 686 | 2018 | Series C |
| 39 | ElevenLabs | 2 | 494 | 2022 | Series C |
| 40 | Gel Data | 2 | 492 | 2019 | Series A |
| 41 | Dagger | 2 | 449 | 2018 | Series A |
| 42 | n8n | 2 | 408 | 2019 | Series C |
| 43 | Linear | 2 | 398 | 2019 | Series C |
| 44 | QuestDB | 2 | 379 | 2019 | Series A |
| 45 | Honeycomb | 2 | 351 | 2016 | Series D |
| 46 | Speakeasy | 2 | 332 | 2022 | Series A |
| 47 | Restate | 2 | 327 | 2023 | seed |
| 48 | Render | 2 | 315 | 2018 | Series C |
| 49 | OpenPipe | 2 | 280 | 2023 | seed |
| 50 | Tiger Data | 2 | 275 | 2015 | Series C |
| 51 | Cline | 2 | 258 | 2024 | Series A |
| 52 | Webflow | 2 | 253 | 2012 | Series C |
| 53 | LangChain | 2 | 241 | 2022 | Series B |
| 54 | Dash0 | 2 | 178 | 2023 | Series B |
| 55 | Cohere | 2 | 173 | 2019 | Series F |
| 56 | Mergify | 2 | 170 | 2018 | pre-seed |
| 57 | Sourcegraph | 2 | 141 | 2013 | Series D |
| 58 | Neon | 2 | 126 | 2021 | acquired |
| 59 | exe.dev | 1 | 457 | 2025 | Series A |
| 60 | Confluent | 1 | 449 | 2014 | acquired |
| 61 | Promptfoo | 1 | 384 | 2024 | acquired |
| 62 | Stainless | 1 | 339 | 2021 | Series A |
| 63 | Replicate | 1 | 288 | 2019 | acquired |
| 64 | Aiven | 1 | 282 | 2016 | Series D |
| 65 | Zilliz | 1 | 280 | 2017 | Series B |
| 66 | Twilio | 1 | 279 | 2008 | public |
| 67 | Trigger.dev | 1 | 261 | 2022 | pre-seed |
| 68 | Momento | 1 | 249 | 2021 | seed |
| 69 | Baseten | 1 | 247 | 2019 | Series E |
| 70 | Mixpanel | 1 | 245 | 2009 | Series C |
| 71 | Ditto | 1 | 223 | 2018 | Series B |
| 72 | Fastly | 1 | 211 | 2011 | public |
| 73 | CodeRabbit | 1 | 207 | 2023 | Series C |
| 74 | Prime Intellect | 1 | 201 | 2024 | Series A |
| 75 | Together AI | 1 | 198 | 2022 | Series C |
| 76 | Carto | 1 | 184 | 2012 | Series C |
| 77 | Octopus Deploy | 1 | 178 | 2012 | Series A |
| 78 | Flightcontrol | 1 | 163 | 2021 | pre-seed |
| 79 | Modular | 1 | 156 | 2022 | Series B |
| 80 | Mixedbread | 1 | 145 | 2023 | seed |
| 81 | Retool | 1 | 139 | 2017 | Series C |
| 82 | Pynt | 1 | 135 | 2022 | seed |
| 83 | Parallel Web Systems | 1 | 123 | 2023 | Series B |
| 84 | Braintrust | 1 | 123 | 2023 | Series B |
| 85 | DigitalOcean | 1 | 115 | 2012 | public |
| 86 | Qovery | 1 | 111 | 2020 | seed |
| 87 | dbt | 1 | 109 | 2016 | Series D |
| 88 | Memgraph | 1 | 107 | 2016 | seed |
| 89 | WarpStream | 1 | 96 | 2017 | acquired |
| 90 | Superset | 1 | 96 | 2026 | seed |
| 91 | Tines | 1 | 94 | 2018 | Series C |
| 92 | Cartesia | 1 | 90 | 2023 | Series A |
| 93 | Freestyle | 1 | 90 | 2024 | seed |
| 94 | Netlify | 1 | 89 | 2015 | Series D |
| 95 | Inference | 1 | 88 | 2023 | seed |
| 96 | Speechmatics | 1 | 87 | 2006 | Series B |
| 97 | Upsun | 1 | 85 | 2015 | Series D |
| 98 | WorkOS | 1 | 84 | 2019 | Series B |
| 99 | Fivetran | 1 | 82 | 2012 | Series D |
| 100 | Redpanda | 1 | 77 | 2019 | Series D |
| 101 | Firebase | 1 | 74 | 2011 | acquired |
| 102 | Arcee AI | 1 | 70 | 2023 | Series A |
| 103 | Ory | 1 | 69 | 2019 | Series A |
| 104 | Grafana Labs | 1 | 62 | 2014 | Series D |
| 105 | Tinybird | 1 | 61 | 2019 | Series B |
| 106 | Elastic | 1 | 60 | 2012 | public |
| 107 | Nanonets | 1 | 58 | 2017 | Series B |
| 108 | Earthly | 1 | 55 | 2020 | seed |
| 109 | Humanloop | 1 | 53 | 2020 | seed |
| 110 | Supermaven | 1 | 53 | 2024 | acquired |
| 111 | Warp | 1 | 52 | 2020 | Series B |
| 112 | Factory | 1 | 50 | 2023 | Series C |
| 113 | Cockroach Labs | 1 | 50 | 2015 | Series F |
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