David Schmaier went to Dreamforce looking for the next great vertical-software company. He could not find it. So he built Vlocity - and six years later, Salesforce bought the answer for about $1.33 billion.
Infor is a multinational enterprise software company that builds industry-specific cloud applications - ERP, supply chain, human capital management, and financials - for more than 60,000 organizations across manufacturing, healthcare, distribution, hospitality, and the public sector. Headquartered in Atlanta and owned by Koch Industries since 2020, Infor differentiates itself with 'micro-vertical' CloudSuites purpose-built for narrow industry niches and delivered on Amazon Web Services.