“Hottest Austin Companies” Announced by Lead411

AUSTIN, Texas - Aug. 5, 2014 - PRLog -- Lead411 releases its 5^th Annual “Hottest Austin Companies” list for 2014.

Background:

For over 13 years, Lead411’s technology and research team scours the web daily to find information about fast growing companies.  Each day they are looking at press releases and news stories like venture financings, company launches, hiring plans, etc.  This has given Lead411 insight on the hottest companies in the US, hence the awards.

Industry Recognition:

Over the past five years the awards have received increasingly more recognition and respectability.  This is primarily due to the fact that some very successful startups were included in the earlier lists.  Previous winners like Yammer, GlassDoor, Hubspot, Eventbrite and Marketo promoted their inclusion on their sites, blogs and social outlets.

About the Awardees:

First, all companies must be in either the Software, Wireless, Hardware, Internet, or Media industry, a privately held organization, and be within Austin area. From there, each company must meet one or more of the following requirements;

100% increase in revenues over the past 2 years
OR $1M+ in funding in the past 2 years.

This particular list originally started with over 1110 companies and it has been narrowed down to the top 42.

“Our 2014 award winners might be our best selection ever,” said Tom Blue, CEO of Lead411. “It seems like there is no better time to be a tech entrepreneur. There are so many startups succeeding right now and it is reflected in these awards.”

List of Company Names:

Bee Cave Games, Bigcommerce Pty. Ltd, Boxer Inc, Buzz Points, Compare Metrics Inc, Datical, Fallbrook Technologies Inc, Gravitant, Iconixx Corporation, Innography, M87, Macheen Inc, Malauzai Software, Inc, myDocket, Inc, NIMBOXX Inc, OutboundEngine, People Pattern, Phunware, Inc., Pivot3, ProspX Inc, Q1Media, Quarri Technologies, Rev Worldwide, RigUp, SailPoint Technologies, Inc, Set.fm, Shoutz Inc., Spanning Cloud Apps, Spiceworks Inc, Spredfast, StepOne Inc, TrendKite, TrustRadius, UnboundID, Upland Software, Uplogix, Inc, Veros Systems, Inc., Wisegate, WP Engine, Written Inc, YouEarnedIt, Zebra Imaging,

List and Details:
The entire list including more details about the award and winners can be found at
http://www.lead411.com/awards/2014/austin.html

About Lead411
Lead411 provides news and data 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.