Akraya Named #9 Largest Women-Owned Business in Silicon Valley

Akraya, Inc. is proud to have been recognized as #9 on The Silicon Valley Business Journal’s 2009 “Women-Owned Businesses” List.
 
Sept. 1, 2009 - PRLog -- This list ranks women-owned companies by the annual revenue of their most recently completed fiscal year. With annual revenue of $26.2MM Akraya, Inc joins the top 25 largest women-owned businesses in Silicon Valley.

“We are thrilled and honored to receive this recognition” said Akraya President, Sonu Ratra. “As a woman business owner, one has to overcome several challenges to grow the business.  Akraya was founded without any VC capital during the 2001 dotcom crash when starting a staffing company didn’t seem like a very good idea. Yet, I believed that we were filling a gap between what clients needed and what other agencies provided. I am very proud that over the years, several client commendations have validated this belief.”

Indeed, in the last 7 years Akraya, Inc. grew into a preferred staffing company to several Fortune 500 enterprises including eBay, Cisco, Facebook, Wells Fargo etc. Today, Akraya has offices in Sunnyvale, CA and Pune, India. In June 2009, Akraya was named #26 on the Fastest Growing Staffing Firms in the US list by Staffing Industry Analysts. Akraya also became an Inc. 5000 honoree in 2009.

Besides aggressively growing Akraya, Ratra believes that with success comes responsibility. Thus, she makes it a priority to give back to other women- and minority-owned businesses through Akraya’s involvement with the Northern California Minority Supplier Development Council (NCMSDC) and the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) as well as participating in The Institute of Economic Empowerment for Women (IEEW)’s Peace Through Business Program.

“Akraya’s success should serve as an encouragement to other women and diversity business owners” adds Ratra. “With determination and hard work it is possible to achieve success as a minority female entrepreneur.”

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Akraya, Inc. is a multiple award-winning, fast growing provider of IT, Engineering, Creative & Marketing talent. We have extensive experience supporting Enterprise clients like eBay, Cisco, Oracle and Roche as well as hot emerging companies like Facebook. Akraya is a woman-owned and minority-owned certified business and also a certified Bay Area Green Business. To find out more about Akraya, please visit www.akraya.com.
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