Fortune Magazine released its famed list of 500 companies, a ranking of top U.S.-based companies by revenue. This year, seven Finovate and FinDEVr alums made the cut. Here are a few quick facts about these seven companies:
- Almost half ranked in the upper half of the list
- Combined revenues of the alums make up almost $88 million
- Companies represent 170,000 employees
- This is the first time on the list for both PayPal and Fiserv
Qualcomm (Firethorn)
- Rank: #110 (up from #113 in 2015)
- Revenues: $25.3 million
- 17th year on the Fortune 500 list
- 33,000 employees
- Headquartered in San Diego, California
- Ranked #448 on Fortune’s Global 500 list
- FinovateFall 2009 demo
- Rank: #159 (up from #168 in 2015)
- Revenues: $17.9 million
- 7th year on the Fortune 500 list
- 43,000 employees
- Headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana
- FinDEVr San Francisco 2015 demo
- Rank: #204 (up from #238 in 2015)
- Revenues: $13.9 million
- 8th year on the Fortune 500 list
- 11,300 employees
- Headquartered in Foster City, California
- Ranked #47 on Fortune’s list of World’s Most Admired Companies
- FinDEVr San Francisco 2014 demo
- Rank: #294 (up from #308 in 2015)
- Revenues: $9.7 million
- 8th year on the Fortune 500 list
- 11,300 employees
- Headquartered in Purchase, New York
- Ranked #11 on Fortune’s list of Change the World
- FinDEVr San Francisco 2014 demo
- Rank: #307
- Revenues: $9.2 million
- First year on Fortune 500 list*
- 16,800 employees
- Headquartered in San Jose, California
- FinDEVr New York 2016 demo
- Rank: #409 (up from #412 in 2015)
- Revenues: $6.4 million
- 19th year on the Fortune 500 list
- 32,600 employees
- Headquartered in Duluth, Georgia
- FinovateSpring 2016 demo
- Rank: #492
- Revenues: $5.3 million
- First year on Fortune 500 list
- 22,000 employees
- Headquartered in Brookfield, Wisconsin
- FinovateSpring 2016 demo
*This was PayPal’s first year as a stand-alone company. The company’s CEO Daniel Schulman explains what the honor means to the company in a short video.