5 Technology Platform Success Stories [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: November 1st, 2023

Start A Technology Platform

Here are some real life success stories of starting a technology platform:

1. OpsLyft ($420K/year)

Aayush, the Founder & CEO of OpsLyft, came up with the idea for his business while working as an Infrastructure and DevOps engineer at a startup. He saw the immense costs incurred by the company on cloud services and the struggle to account for those costs. He built a solution that saved the company close to a million dollars and realized that this problem was industry-wide, leading him to start OpsLyft.

How much they make: $420K/year
Current team size: 25

How This Solo Founder Bootstrapped A $20K/Month Cloud Management App

OpsLyft is a two-year-old high-growth startup built out of India and managing over $100 million of cloud investments each year, offering help to enterprise software companies globally to manage their cloud infrastructure costs without compromising the performance and reliability of applications running on it.

About

Aayush started OpsLyft over 4 years ago

Revenue

Aayush grew the business to $35K/month

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2. Digital Seat Media ($1.2M/year)

How much they make: $1.2M/year
Current team size: 35

950k QR codes installed and $1m in venue revenue, digital seat closing $5m series A now

Digital Seat Media uses QR codes and NFC technology to link fans to companies, sports teams, and artists, has raised $5M in Series A, and is generating over $100K MRR, with over one million installed QR codes and 50+ brands paying to use their platform.

About

Cameron started Digital Seat Media over 6 years ago

Revenue

Cameron grew the business to $100K/month

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3. BuiltWith

Web technology information profiler tool. Find out what a website is built with.

How much they make:
Where they're located: Sydney NSW, Australia
How much did it cost to start: $5K
Current team size: 0
Website traffic: 1.35M/month

4. hopin

Hopin is an online events platform where you can create engaging virtual events that connect people around the globe.

Website traffic: 4.08M/month

5. Zilingo

Zilingo provides technology & services to the garment, fabric, lifestyle, and other sectors. Our solutions are used by factories to optimize production, by brands to source more efficiently, and by wholesalers & retailers to trade goods in bulk.