“Hottest Boston Companies” Announced by Lead411

BOSTON - July 9, 2014 - PRLog -- Lead411 releases its 5^th Annual “Hottest Boston 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 Boston area. From there, each company must meet one or more of the following requirements;

100% increase in revenues over the past 2 years
OR $3M+ in funding in the past 2 years.

This particular list originally started with over 1432 companies and it has been narrowed down to the top 62.

“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:

Actifio, Affirmed Networks Inc, Ambri, Inc, Anaqua, AppNeta, BA Insight, Backupify, Benu Networks Inc, bigtincan, Bit9, Inc., BlueConic Inc., Brand Networks, CloudBees, Inc., Confer Technologies, Inc, Correlsense, CounterTack, Cybereason, DataXu, Inc., DraftKings, Inc., EverTrue, Inc, Extreme Reach, FirstFuel Software, Inc, HubSpot, Inc, InsightSquared, Intigua Inc, Jana Mobile, Kensho Technologies, Layer3 TV, Inc., Leaf, Localytics, Logentries, LoopPay, Inc., Nanigans, Inc, Nexage, NuoDB, Nutonian, Objective Logistics, OpenExchange, ParElastic Corporation, Perfecto Mobile Inc, Plastiq, Predilytics, ProcessUnity Inc, Quantopian, RapidMiner, Reflexis Systems Inc, Scratch Wireless, SCVNGR, Inc, SimpliSafe, Inc., SimpliVity Corporation, Sonian Inc, Spritz, sqrrl data, inc., StarWind Software Inc, Synack, Inc, Thinking Phone Networks, uTest Inc, Vee24.com, Verdasys, VoltDB, XebiaLabs, Zerto,

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