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GONG NAMED TO THE 2021 FORBES CLOUD 100

August 10, 2021

PALO ALTO, CA (August 10, 2021) – Gong, the revenue intelligence platform leveraging artificial intelligence to transform revenue teams, today announced it has been named to the Forbes 2021 Cloud 100, the definitive ranking of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world. This is the second consecutive year Gong has been named to the list which is published by Forbes in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners andSalesforce Ventures.

“Making the 2021 Forbes Cloud 100 list is the latest example of Gong’s strong momentum,” said Amit Bendov, CEO of Gong. “A growing number of analysts, investors, media and – most importantly, business leaders – are witnessing Gong’s ability to improve performance. Gong’s Revenue Intelligence Platform empowers revenue teams worldwide to make decisions based on reality instead of opinions, and that is proving to be a very popular concept.”

In addition to today’s news, Gong over the previous six months has announced:

For the sixth straight year, the Cloud 100 reviews submissions from hundreds of cloud startups and private companies each year. The Cloud 100 evaluation process involved ranking companies across four factors: market leadership (35%), estimated valuation (30%), operating metrics (20%), and people & culture (15%). For market leadership, the Cloud 100 enlists the help of a judging panel of 34 public cloud company CEOs who assist in evaluating and ranking their private company peers.

“The companies of the Cloud 100 list represent the best and brightest emerging companies in the cloud sector,” said Alex Konrad, senior editor at Forbes. “Every year, it gets more difficult to make this list — meaning even more elite company for those who do. Congratulations to each of the 2021 Cloud 100 honorees and to our 20 Rising Stars up-and-comers poised to join their ranks.”

“The private cloud ecosystem continues to see historic rates of digital transformation,” said Byron Deeter, partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. “Private cloud valuations are getting bigger as the market’s appetite for cloud continues to grow. These founders represent the absolute best in cloud computing today, and they appear likely to follow in the footsteps of our esteemed Cloud 100 alumni. Congratulations to these cloud leaders!”

“How we work has undergone a paradigm shift and businesses of all shapes and sizes are reimagining the tools that are needed to ensure working from anywhere is a sustainable, long-lasting solution,” said Alex Kayyal, Managing Partner, Salesforce Ventures. “The last 18 months have made digital transformation an urgent imperative and the cloud has never been more pivotal in powering our new digital economy. The companies on this list represent the leaders and businesses shaping the future of the cloud ecosystem and we are excited to partner with Bessemer Venture Partners and Forbes to honor these trailblazers of the industry.”

The Forbes 2021 Cloud 100 lists are published online atwww.forbes.com/cloud100, highlighted in the September 2021 issue of Forbes magazine, and will be recognized at this year’s virtual Cloud 100 experience, hosted by Bessemer Venture Partners,Salesforce Ventures, and Forbes on August 10th at thecloud100.com.

About Gong

Gong enables revenue teams to realize their fullest potential by unveiling their customer reality. The patented Gong Revenue Intelligence Platform™ captures and understands every customer interaction, then delivers insights at scale, empowering revenue teams to make decisions based on data instead of opinions. Over 2,000 innovative companies like Paychex, PayPal, Hubspot, LinkedIn, MuleSoft, Shopify, Slack, SproutSocial, Twilio, and Zillow trust Gong to power their customer reality. With Gong, customers experience improved win rates, increased deal sizes, and accelerated employee ramp-times. Gong is a private company headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more information visit https://www.gong.io or follow us on Linkedin.

Bessemer Venture Partners

Bessemer Venture Partners is the world’s most experienced early-stage venture capital firm. With a portfolio of more than 200 companies, Bessemer helps visionary entrepreneurs lay strong foundations to create companies that matter, and supports them through every stage of their growth. The firm has 130 IPOs, including Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, Skype, LifeLock, PagerDuty, DocuSign, Wix, MindBody, and Fiverr. Bessemer’s team of investors and partners are positioned all over the world in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, New York, Boston, Tel Aviv, Bangalore, and Beijing. Follow@BessemerVP and learn more at bvp.com.

About Forbes

The defining voice of entrepreneurial capitalism, Forbes champions success by celebrating those who have made it, and those who aspire to make it. Forbes convenes and curates the most influential leaders and entrepreneurs who are driving change, transforming business and making a significant impact on the world. The Forbes brand today reaches more than 140 million people worldwide through its trusted journalism, signature LIVE events, custom marketing programs and 40 licensed local editions in 70 countries. Forbes Media’s brand extensions include real estate, education and financial services license agreements. For more information, visit the Forbes News Hub or Forbes Connect.

Salesforce Ventures

Salesforce Ventures is the global investment arm of Salesforce and is focused on partnering with the most ambitious enterprise technology companies at every stage in their journey. Since 2009, Salesforce Ventures has invested over $3 billion in over 400 leading companies including Auth0, Databricks, DocuSign, Guild Education, Hopin, monday.com, nCino, Snowflake, Snyk, Stripe, Tanium, Twilio, and Zoom. Salesforce Ventures provides portfolio companies with unparalleled access to Salesforce, one of the fastest-growing enterprise software companies in the world, including strategic advisory, customer introductions, and the strongest cloud ecosystem. Salesforce Ventures has invested in more than 25 countries with offices all over the world including in San Francisco, Irvine, New York, London, Tokyo, and Sydney. Follow @SalesforceVC and learn more at salesforce.com/ventures.

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Gong partnering with Microsoft to enable enterprises to automate workflows, act faster, and win more revenue with AI

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Harnessing AI Agents to Deliver Revenue Outcomes at Enterprise Scale While revenue teams know what it takes to win, high-value work like account research, stalled deal analysis, and renewal prep rarely happens consistently. Traditional CRM-native approaches miss the conversational signals that drive revenue, while DIY agent builders lack governance. Custom Agents solve this by allowing any stakeholder to describe a workflow in natural language inside Gong (e.g., monitoring accounts over $100K for specific risk signals and alerting the AE before Monday morning). As these agents run on the Gong Revenue Harness, they operate with strict enterprise control, scoped data access, a full audit trail, and configurable human oversight. Every agent inherits the security permissions already in place across Gong today, ensuring safe, autonomous execution. 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Mission Big Dipper expands Gong Assistant to bring conversational AI directly into the flow of daily work: AI Builder in Gong Assistant: Teams can move from insight to action in a single conversation. Reps can ask what is driving a specific renewal risk and immediately generate a board-ready readout or objection-handling guide without losing context or switching tools. Gong Assistant in Account Console: Brings conversational AI directly into the account context, so account teams can prepare for meetings, investigate issues, align on upsell strategy, and generate outputs without leaving the flow of work. Gong Assistant in a standalone workspace: Gives revenue teams a dedicated home for analysis and building outputs. The workspace introduces new ways to focus the assistant with filters to zero in on a segment, team, or motion. 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Custom Agents are generally available this month, with new capabilities rolling out over the coming months. AI Builder in Gong Assistant, Gong Assistant in a standalone workspace, AI Coach, and AI Builder for Scorecards are generally available this month. Gong Assistant in Account Console and Dry Run are expected to be available in July 2026. To learn more about Mission Big Dipper, visit https://www.gong.io/blog/mission-big-dipper-revenue-ai-os ### About Gong Gong harnesses the power of AI to transform how revenue teams win. The Gong Revenue AI Operating System unifies data, insights, and workflows into a single, trusted system that observes, guides, and acts alongside the world’s most successful revenue teams. Powered by the Gong Revenue Graph, AI-powered intelligence, specialized agents, and trusted applications, Gong helps more than 5,000 companies around the world deeply understand their teams and customers, automate critical revenue workflows, and close more deals with less effort. For more information, visit www.gong.io.

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The world's largest companies are deploying Gong for production-grade AI rollouts, not pilots. Gong added more $1M+ customers in the last two quarters than in the previous six combined. Revenue has been broken in plain sight. Sellers spend 77% of their time on non-selling activities. A multi-trillion dollar industry runs 70 to 80% inefficient. The root cause is structural: legacy CRM depends on humans to log what happened, and it's hard to use. So in turn, go-to-market teams don't use it. Bad data in, no real insight out, and no automation is possible. Three of every four dollars get wasted on motion that doesn't convert. Gong is replacing that premise. The Gong Revenue Graph turns customer interactions across emails, calls, meetings, and deals into a living memory layer - one that makes real intelligence and automation possible for the first time. Gong's proprietary AI models, trained on revenue-specific data and combined with leading LLMs, convert that layer into decisions: which deals to chase, where the team is at risk, what to do next. Revenue professionals stop updating systems. The system runs the work. Today, 50% of Gong's customers now run multiple products on the platform, and use of flagship AI capabilities like Gong Assistant grew over 200% year over year. "We launched Gong a decade ago with a bet: AI would be bigger than cloud," said Amit Bendov, CEO and Co-Founder of Gong. "The market wasn't ready, so we toned the message down for years. The last three years have been the unlock. Every company is now investing in AI as a strategic priority, and the vision we had a decade ago is the reality driving this acceleration." Enterprise adoption of Gong has grown significantly year-over-year, with half of the Fortune 10 among Gong's customer base. Organizations such as ADP, Anthropic, Canva, Cisco, Docusign, Google, Paycor, Uber for Business, and Thomson Reuters are seeing immediate, measurable outcomes, including: Anthropic increased seller productivity 64%, giving AEs back 10 hours a week Uber for Business used Gong's agents to lift response rates 32% Canva saw a 60% lift in rep capacity Paycor achieved a 141% increase in deal wins “Scaling a B2B business in fintech requires strong visibility into your pipeline and how deals are actually progressing since the sales cycle is longer, more regulated, more risk-heavy, and more multithreaded than in other industries,” said Jason Steckler, Head of Revenue Strategy and Operations at Chime. “We saw immediate impact after implementing Gong, with strong productivity gains across our sales team and a much clearer view of what’s happening across our deals. We now have the insights to be more proactive in our go-to-market strategy and execute more effectively as we grow, and we’re excited to continue scaling our business with Gong as a key part of that growth.” "Recently surpassing $500M in ARR is a testament to how Gong has uniquely combined proprietary data with deep, real-world context on how GTM decisions are actually made,” said Dharmesh Thakker, General Partner at Battery Ventures. “By mastering the intersection of domain expertise and AI model optimization, they deliver the high-impact insights and orchestration necessary for revenue teams to operate at scale. Gong's advantage isn't just the AI, but the data and real-world context underneath it." Gong was recently named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Revenue Action Orchestration and recognized by Fast Company as one of the World's Most Innovative Companies of 2026 in Applied AI. About Gong Gong harnesses the power of AI to transform how revenue teams win. The Gong Revenue AI Operating System unifies data, insights, and workflows into a single, trusted system that observes, guides, and acts alongside the world’s most successful revenue teams. Powered by the Gong Revenue Graph, specialized agents, and trusted applications, Gong helps more than 5,000 companies around the world deeply understand their teams and customers, automate critical revenue workflows, and close more deals with less effort. Learn more at gong.io.

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