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Fastest growing Software Development companies

535 Software Development companies grew in the window and pass the size floor. The table shows the top 10. Growth compares each company's employee count between two weekly hiring-velocity batches.

Batch of Sep 29, 2026

Companies ranked: 535
Shown free: 10
#1 headcount change: +100%

Batch of Sep 29, 2026

Top 10 companies

Fastest growing Software Development companies, top 10
#	Company	10-week headcount change	Employees Jul 22, 2026	Employees Sep 29, 2026
1	Elasticelastic.co	+100%	5,030	10,058
2	Mariadbmariadb.com	+99%	201	400
3	Muralmural.co	+93.7%	568	1,100
4	Idrive Software India Pvt Ltdidrive.com	+87.1%	201	376
5	Semtech Corporationsemtech.com	+79.5%	1,001	1,797
6	Lpinegroupe-lepine.com	+79.1%	201	360
7	Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligencehexagon.com	+78.6%	5,600	10,000
8	Babcock International Groupbabcockinternational.com	+75.2%	16,551	29,000
9	Telustelus.com	+70.6%	38,693	66,000
10	Pathaipathai.com	+68.5%	340	573

Showing the top 10 of 535 companies ranked in Software Development. The Signal API returns all of them.

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Signal API · MCP

Get the signals behind this ranking

One search call returns the hiring-velocity signal for each company: open roles, headcount and the 30-day change. Add company_domains or industries and rank the companies your own way.

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curl -X POST https://signals.autobound.ai/v1/companies/search \
  -H "X-API-KEY: $AUTOBOUND_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"signal_types":["hiring-velocity"],"limit":100}'

Showing the top 10 of 535 companies ranked in Software Development. The Autobound Signal API returns every row: POST /v1/companies/search with the body above. The MCP server is at https://mcp.autobound.ai/mcp (sign in with OAuth). A free account has 1,000 credits.

Questions about this ranking

What does 10-week headcount change mean?

It compares each company's employee count in the hiring-velocity batch of Sep 29, 2026 with the batch of Jul 22, 2026. Jumps too large to be real growth are left out.

How many Software Development companies are in this ranking?

535 Software Development companies grew in the window and pass the size floor. This page shows the top 10.

Can I track headcount for my own accounts?

Yes. Call POST /v1/companies/enrich with a domain and signal_types: ["hiring-velocity"]. The signal carries data.numberOfEmployees and data.numberOfOpenRoles. Enrich costs 2 credits per signal returned. A new account gets 1,000 free credits.

How this list is built

Source: Autobound Signal API: hiring-velocity
Method: Companies with at least 100 employees at the base date and at least 3 open roles, ranked by headcount change between two weekly hiring-velocity batches, per industry.
Data as of: Sep 29, 2026

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