2014 promises to be another hot year for startups creating tech for businesses rather than consumers.

VCs are still tripping over themselves to fund enterprise startups and a slew of them are getting ready to go public this year.

All of that is reason to consider a career with an enterprise startup that could make you rich on stock options.

Plus, many of these startups are creating amazing, important new technologies and showering their employees with perks.

Apttus: A winner with Salesforce.com.

Apttus plays in a hot market called “quote to cash” (CQT). That’s software that helps an enterprise deal with bids and quotes.

Apttus is a service specific to Salesforce.com.

When Oracle bought one of its competitors, Big Machines, for what was reported to be more than $ 400 million, Apttus gained attention.

Salesforce.com had a minor stake in Big Machines but it had, a month earlier, bet even bigger on Apttus, partaking of its $ 37 million round of investment. That put Apttus under the protective arm of Salesforce and maybe, one day, to be fully acquired by it.

Birst: Google for the enterprise.

Birst offers a cloud service that lets businesses search through their own corporate data as easily as Google lets people search for stuff on the Web. And it also offers businesses Amazon.com-style recommendations.

The company is trying to disrupt the traditional “business intelligence” enterprise market and has nabbed a long list of customers, including American Express, Cisco, and Kellogg’s.

It raised $ 38 million in 2013 ($ 64 million total).

Box: A Valley star on a roll.

File-sharing and collaboration startup Box was on a roll in 2013 and Valley insiders think the company will go public in 2014.

In December, Box raised another huge round of funding, $ 100 million, with a valuation of $ 2 billion. It has raised more than $ 400 million so far from a who’s-who roster of investors.

In addition to funding, Box made four acquisitions in 2013 and now claims over 20 million users.

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