You can get some decent information on that kind of thing on Crunchbase. For example, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/dropbox http://www.crunchbase.com/compan

You can get some decent information on that kind of thing on Crunchbase. For example, http://www.crunchbase.com/company/dropbox http://www.crunchbase.com/company/dropbox You might want to differentiate between those that have plenty of cash from investment, and those that are profitably bootstrapped. For the latter, there is a series on 37signals' blog: http://37signals.com/svn/ http://37signals.com/svn/