A brief look at different Tech Stacks used by Top Tech Startups of the US!

by Praveen Kumar Purushothaman

This is a small compilation of the top ten most valuable startups from AirBNB to WeWork, in America.

This was originally posted in Business Insider and wasn't accessible to a lot of my friends, so here's a repost of the same. The credits go to BI.

Contents

  1. Wish
  2. Coinbase
  3. Samumed
  4. Epic Games
  5. Palantir
  6. Stripe
  7. SpaceX
  8. Airbnb
  9. Juul Labs
  10. WeWork

Wish

  • What do they do: A shopping app that sells items directly from the manufacturer.
  • Their worth: $8 billion
  • Total raised: $1.5 billion
  • Programming languages used: PHP, Python, Golang, Ruby, Java, C, C++, Go, Perl
  • Frameworks used: ReactJS, Hadoop
  • Databases used: MySQL, MongoDB, Redis

Coinbase

  • What do they do: An app that allows people to buy and sell cryptocurrency.
  • Their worth: $8.05 billion
  • Total raised: $525.31 million
  • Programming languages used: Go, Ruby, JavaScript, Swift, Objective-C, Kotlin, Java, C, C++, Rust
  • Frameworks used: ReactJS, NodeJS
  • Databases used: PostgreSQL

Samumed

  • What do they do: Develops therapeutic drugs for degenerative diseases.
  • Their worth: $12.44 billion
  • Total raised: $763.9 million
  • Programming languages used: C#, JavaScript
  • Frameworks used: AngularJS, Entity
  • Databases used: SQL

Epic Games

  • What do they do: Develops video games like Fortnite and Unreal Engine games.
  • Their worth: $15 billion
  • Total raised: $1.58 billion
  • Programming languages used: Go, Java, Python, Perl, Shell
  • Frameworks used: n/a
  • Databases used: MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Palantir

  • What do they do: Develops data analysis software for large companies, nonprofits, and government agencies.
  • Their worth: $20.53 billion
  • Total raised: $2.75 billion
  • Programming languages used: Python, JavaScript, Ruby, Go, Java, C++
  • Frameworks used: Flask, Django
  • Databases used: MySQL

Stripe

  • What do they do: Develops an online payment platform that helps businesses accept electronic payments.
  • Their worth: $22.5 billion
  • Total raised: $1.03 billion
  • Programming languages used: Python, JavaScript, Ruby
  • Frameworks used: n/a
  • Databases used: PostgreSQL

SpaceX

  • What do they do: Designs and manufactures rockets to travel to outer space and eventually to Mars.
  • Their worth: $33.4 billion
  • Total raised: $3.57 billion
  • Programming languages used: Python, JavaScript, Java, C++, C, PHP, Ruby
  • Frameworks used: n/a
  • Databases used: MySQL, PostgreSQL

Airbnb

  • What do they do: Allows people to rent out and book property for short-term stays.
  • Their worth: $31 billion
  • Total raised: $4.4 billion
  • Programming languages used: Java, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, PHP
  • Frameworks used: ReactJS, Flask, Hadoop
  • Databases used: MySQL, Redis, RDS

Juul Labs

  • What do they do: Develops nicotine vaporizers as an alternative to traditional tobacco products.
  • Their worth: $38 billion
  • Total raised: $14.15 billion
  • Programming languages used: Java, C, C++, Python, Go
  • Frameworks used: n/a
  • Databases used: n/a

WeWork

  • What do they do: Provides shared workspaces and office services for entrepreneurs, freelancers, startups and small businesses.
  • Their worth: $47 billion
  • Total raised: $8.39 billion
  • Programming languages used: JavaScript, Ruby, Python
  • Frameworks used: NodeJS, ReactJS, Foundation, Flask
  • Databases used: n/a