Lead411 Launches 'Hottest Seattle Companies' Award
Lead411 recognizes the fastest growing technology companies in the Seattle Metropolitan area.
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 8, 2010
In order to recognize the hottest technology companies in Seattle, Lead411 (http://www.lead411.com) is proud to announce the release of the 'Hottest Seattle Companies' awards.
Background
On a daily basis, the Lead411 research team scours through at least 600 press releases and business articles including venture capital financings, company launches, office openings, new customer press releases, etc. This information has given insight to which are the fastest growing companies in U.S. Their "Hot List" awards have been created to recognize this fast growing companies. This particular list originally started with over 1250 companies and it has been narrowed down to the top 85.
We are very proud of these awards. We have been tracking fast-moving companies for our customers for the past 10 years, and we felt it was important to recognize these growing brands publicly. "We are very proud of these awards. We have been tracking fast-moving companies for our customers for the past 10 years," said Tom Blue, CEO of Lead411, "and we felt it was important to recognize these growing brands publicly."
How the List Was Chosen
First, all companies must by in either the Software, Wireless, Internet, or Media industry, have less than $100M in yearly revenues, and be within the Seattle metropolitan area. From there, each company must meet one or more of the following requirements;
100% increase in revenues over the past 3 years.
$4M+ in funding in the past 2 years.
2X traffic gains to their website in the past 12 months AND over 1M unique visitors a month.
List of Company Names:
Adaptive TCR, Adapx, AdReady, AdXpose, Apptio, Atigeo, Avvo, Inc, Big Fish Games, Inc, BlueKai Inc, BuddyTV, Cequint, Cozi Group, Inc., Daptiv, Inc, Datacastle Corporation, DataSphere Technologies Inc, DepotPoint, DocuSign, Doyenz, Edifecs, ExtraHop Networks Inc, Finsphere, Gist, Ground Truth, iLike, inc, Intelius Inc, Jobster, Inc, Kashless Inc, Likewise Software, LiveMocha Inc, Local Marketers Inc, LucidCOMMERCE, Mixpo, Napera Networks, NewPath Networks LLC, PayScale, Inc., Pelago, Inc, Pharmacy OneSource, Photobucket, PopCap Games, Redfin, Skytap, Spring Wireless, SynapticMash Inc, Tableau Software, TeachStreet, UIEvolution, VANTOS, Inc, Verdiem Corporation, Visible Technologies, Wetpaint.com Inc, Widevine Technologies, Winshuttle Inc, Xeround Inc, Z2Live, and Zulily.
List and Details:
The entire list including more details about the award and winners can be found at http://www.lead411.com/Seattle-companies.html.
About Lead411
Lead411 provides information, news, and research about U.S. companies and their executives. Founded in 2001, its goal has been to focus on quality corporate data that is valid and useful rather than producing as many company records as possible. In addition, Lead411 tracks company news in order to alert its customers about venture financing, new hires, hiring plans, etc. Customers include Gartner, Administaff and ADP.
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