Red Herring Reveals Companies Selected for the Red Herring North America 100 2008

Award recognizes the 100 "Most Promising" companies driving the future of technology. Red Herring today announced that FortiusOne, the leader in next-generation Intelligent Mapping solutions, was a finalist for the Red Herring 100 Award, a selection of the 100 most innovative private technology companies based in North America.

Arlington, VA (PRWEB) April 17, 2008 -- Red Herring today announced that FortiusOne, the leader in next-generation Intelligent Mapping solutions, was a finalist for the Red Herring 100 Award, a selection of the 100 most innovative private technology companies based in North America.

The Red Herring editorial board diligently surveyed the entrepreneurial scene throughout the North American region and identified the top 200 out of more than 800 closely evaluated companies that are leading the next wave of innovation.

"We can see the exciting evolution of the technology sector reflected in the quality and variety of exceptional companies that we had to choose from in putting our list together," said Joel Dreyfuss, editor-in-chief of Red Herring." It was tough to choose just 200 finalists from such a large list of excellent contenders, and we are very happy with the quality of the companies we selected as finalists."

"We are thrilled that FortiusOne has been recognized as a finalist for the Red Herring 100," said Sean Gorman, CEO and founder of FortiusOne. "Our focus is driving the next generation of mapping with the convergence of GIS analysis and visualization capabilities with GeoWeb ease-of-use and collaboration. Combined with our large and rapidly growing repository of open, structured data, we uniquely offer the complete Geostack for government, commercial and consumer use."

The 100 winning companies will be announced at the Red Herring North America event. The CEOs of the winning startups will present their innovative ideas and technologies to an audience of leading entrepreneurs, financiers, and corporate strategists at the event in San Jose, California, on May 12-14 at the Fairmont. This year's Red Herring 100 North America event marks the 11th anniversary of the Red Herring 100 Awards. In celebration, the event will feature keynote addresses from legendary VC investors and CEOs of leading Internet, information, and communications companies.

"FortiusOne has built a solid platform for achieving exponential success," said Chris Marentis, president and COO of FortiusOne. "With our experienced and forward-thinking team, innovative and disruptive technologies and continued backing from investors such as In-Q-Tel and Chart Venture Partners, we are set to make a huge splash in the coming months."

Register online at: http://herringevents.com/northamerica08/index.html

About Red Herring:

Red Herring is a global media company which unites the world's best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider's access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy. More information about Red Herring is available on the Internet at http://www.redherring.com.

About FortiusOne:

FortiusOne provides next-generation Intelligent Mapping solutions that make the World's geographic data accessible to everyone for learning, decision making, and problem solving. FortiusOne is leading the way toward the next generation of the Web with breakthrough technologies that offer unprecedented access to data, easy remixing of data for specific needs, and rich information visualization that enables storytelling with maps. FortiusOne offers a range of products and services based on the GeoCommons platform to enable government and commercial customers to leverage intelligent maps in their own applications. For more information, visit www.fortiusone.com.

FortiusOne Contact:

Geoff Livingston, PR counsel for FortiusOne

Phone: 703-347-9036

http://www.fortiusone.com

Red Herring Contact:

Anam Alpenia

Red Herring, Inc.

Phone: 650-428-2900

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