AWL

AWL is one of the most successful customer acquisition marketing companies in the nation. Our focus is the insurance industry and our team uses Internet marketing to turn consumer interest in insurance products into policy sales for the world’s largest insurance carriers and thousands of insurance agents.

Trustpage

Trustpage, a Vanta company, is the only end-to-end security review platform helping customers self-serve security information, reduce repetitive questionnaires, and respond quickly and accurately to security questions. Trustpage joins Vanta as a layer of trust on top of cloud services to secure the internet, increase trust in software companies, and keep consumer data safe. To get started saving your team time, visit trustpage.com.

Arcules

We’re Arcules: an innovative, bold member of the Canon family. We move fast, operate on trust, and value our employees. Our engineering team is passionate about what they do at work and play. So come as you are, and join us on this path to transform video into intelligence with cloud-native development and bleeding-edge technologies. Let’s grow together.

Ahana

Ahana is the Presto company that brings together decades of cloud, open source, database and distributed systems experience. Presto, the open source project hosted by the Linux Foundation’s Presto Foundation, is the de-facto open source distributed SQL query engine for data lakes. With Presto, data engineers and analysts can run interactive, ad hoc analytics on large amounts of data, which continues to grow exponentially across a wide range of data lakes and databases. One of the fastest growing projects in the data analytics space, Presto is the same project running at massive scale at Facebook, Uber and Twitter. In 2020, Ahana became the first and only Presto-focused company to bring to market a fully integrated, cloud native Presto managed service for AWS. Describe what makes the nominated company unique (250 words): In April 2020, Ahana was founded as the first company focused on bringing Presto ad-hoc analytics offerings to the cloud market. Ahana raised $4.8M in seed funding in the midst of the global pandemic from Google Ventures and Lux Capital, two leading venture companies. In December 2020, Ahana launched Ahana Cloud for Presto, the industry's first and only cloud-native managed service that makes Presto ubiquitously available via unrivaled ease of use and affordability. As data lakes have become more ubiquitous, Presto has become the de facto query engine for the data lake. Presto is a federated SQL engine, open sourced by Facebook and has become one of the fastest growing projects in the data analytics space. Ahana has continued to grow its customer base across all verticals in the mid-size and enterprise markets, including companies in the telco, FinServ, AdTech, and security industries, and today there are dozens of companies using Ahana Cloud for Presto on AWS. Recent notable additions and success stories include Securonix, Dialog, Carbon, Rev, Metropolis, Requis, and Cartona. In August 2021, Ahana raised $20 million in Series A funding to transform open data lake analytics, bringing total funds raised to $24.8 million. The financing round was led by Third Point Ventures and included existing investors GV (formerly Google Ventures), Leslie Ventures, and Lux Capital. Robert Schwartz, Managing Partner, Third Point Ventures will join Ahana’s Board of Directors. Describe the challenges or adversity the nominee has overcome in the past 12 mos (250 words). In April 2020, Ahana was founded in the midst of a global pandemic as the first compan

Tango

Tango believes that rewards, incentives, and payments are more than transactions. They’re opportunities to fuel stronger relationships with people, and better performance for business. Whether you’re focused on customer loyalty or employee engagement, wellness or research participation, we can help you seamlessly send smiles and drive results.

Simpler Trading

Simpler Trading was founded in 2010 by John F. Carter, trading icon & author of the best-selling book “Mastering the Trade.” We have provided expert guidance and mentoring to over 350,000 traders across globe. Our team of veteran traders have over 200 years of combined trading experience and provide in-depth knowledge & actionable, real-time ideas.

Spireon

With nearly 4 million connected vehicles today, Spireon is an exciting player in the growing Connected Car and Internet of Things (IoT) technology categories. We help people and businesses track and protect their most important assets with vehicle intelligence solutions that gather Big Data and provide the critical insights with easy-to-use dashboards and apps. We have a bold vision to connect 25 million vehicles by 2025. Our customers come first. We lead through innovation. We win as one. We act with integrity. We adhere to our brand promise – to make the complex simple, the future predictable, and our customers successful.

W2S Solutions

W2S Solutions is the leading Digital Transformation Company with 10+ years of experience in leveraging exceptional technologies. We focus on making your business unique and successful with talented professionals who come up with great ideas. The primary goal of W2S Solutions is to build a trustworthy and visionary solution that is best-in-class and enhances the existing business operations. Get benefited from our following set of solutions: --> Application Development: We help you in figuring out the challenges in your business and replacing them with our next-gen application development strategy that makes you stand out from the crowd. --> Data Analytics: We know the importance of data in every business and help you in making better decisions that are result-oriented and drive businesses to the next stage. --> IoT & ML: We assist organizations in optimizing their business processes by leveraging Machine learning, the subset of Artificial Intelligence and IoT for enhanced productivity. --> Cloud Deployment: W2S Solutions consists of talented professionals who can help you with planning, deploying, handling, and offering all the cloud processing services with greater flexibility. We offer all the above services based on the business needs and deliver them the same. Get in touch with us to experience a full-fledged service from enthusiastic people!

Sermo

​​​Sermo turns physician experience, expertise, and observations into actionable insights for the global healthcare community. Engaging with more than 1.3 million HCPs across 150 countries, the company provides physicians with a social platform and unique community that fosters impactful peer-to-peer collaboration & discussions about issues that are important to them and their patients. Sermo offers on demand access to physicians via a suite of proprietary technology to provide business intelligence that benefits pharmaceutical, healthcare partners and the medical community at large. To learn more, visit www.sermo.com

PDQ

PDQ provides device management solutions that are easy to use, affordable and pretty damn quick. IT administrators can handle patch management and software deployment, whether they manage 50 machines or 5,000, relieving the time burden of IT administrators. More than 23,000 organizations trust our software to keep their machines up to date and secure.

SDI Presence

SDI Presence LLC is an IT services firm that leverages its strong team presence to advance our clients to a secure digital enterprise. With a more than 25-year corporate resume, SDI delivers strategic managed services, IT consulting, and multicloud solutions to optimize our clients’ technology environments. SDI is a certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) with Corporate Plus designation from the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) and a portfolio of clients that includes some of the nation’s largest airports, utilities, commercial real estate portfolios, and government agencies.

AcreTrader

AcreTrader launched in 2018 and has established itself as a leader in the farmland investment industry. We are a real estate investing platform that makes it easy to buy shares of farmland and earn passive income. Our integrated product suite enables all of the players involved in land transactions—buyers, sellers, brokers, agents, investors, and farmers—to meet their goals with advanced technology and localized expertise. United States farmland has historically outperformed most asset classes and other forms of real estate. Unfortunately, buying and maintaining farmland directly is extremely difficult without local knowledge and management, as well as large investment commitments. AcreTrader solves these issues by providing transparency, flexibility, and ease of use to people wanting to invest in farmland while handling all aspects of administration and property management, from insurance and accounting to working with local farmers and improving soil sustainability. At the same time, AcreTrader works to help farmers scale through innovative sales and leasing opportunities.

Redstone

Redstone is one of the fastest growing fintech startups in the country focused on streamlining creation of esoteric alternative asset classes. The fintech disruptor dismantled the MBS ecosystem, streamlining it with a digital platform that employs AI and machine learning tools to eliminates unnecessary steps and redundant approval processes.

PickTrace

PickTrace offers workforce & harvest management solutions for enterprise farms. We're building the agricultural management system of the future, with unparalleled user empathy in an industry underserved by tech. Our SaaS product serves the world's largest berry, citrus, and apple growers and is used by tens of thousands of farmworkers each day.

Stackline

Stackline is a retail technology company that builds commerce tools for thousands of the largest consumer brands, retailers, and professional service firms. Our mission is to fuel the future of commerce by bringing brands and customers closer together.

Passage

We believe that everyone should simply log in to apps and websites with Face ID, Touch ID, Windows Hello, or whatever's built in to their devices. Passage empowers developers to make it happen.

Double

Even with the best tools, CEOs on average spend 24% of their time on emails, with additional admin tasks like scheduling and team coordination eating up even more valuable time each week. Time they could be spending growing and building their teams, working on high-level strategy, building their network, or simply enjoying much-needed time with friends and family. That realization led us to start Double in 2018. We wanted to help people focus their time and energy on the things they had the most value doing, and set out to build a flexible, accessible, and efficient support system. By matching executives and their teams with part-time, experienced assistants and empowering them with tools to work better together, we are building towards the vision we laid out at our launch: 1) Humans first. We believe that great delegation stems from strong relationships. We're assembling the best community of executive assistants in the US and France with a wide range of experiences to support growing companies. AI can't get it right all the time, but humans and great software can. 2) Tools to boost delegation. Most people aren’t taught how to delegate, so we're building tools to empower executives to seamlessly share tasks and preferences and learn how to apply delegation best practices. Our tools also help assistants stay on track and operate more efficiently on a daily basis. 3) Accessible for executives and their teams. While Double started as a service and product for CEOs, we are now extending support to all teams. Getting time back to spend on the things that matter is crucial for executives and their company, whether that's just a couple of hours per month or 15h per week.

Flyhomes

We’re an end-to-end real estate brokerage and technology company that empowers home buyers, sellers, and agents to win. Flyhomes is transforming the home buying experience through comprehensive consumer education, segmented expertise, financial innovation, and on-demand technology.

Bittrex

Bittrex was founded in 2014 by three cybersecurity engineers. Our mission is to help advance the blockchain industry by fostering innovation, incubating new and emerging technology and driving transformative change.

Flyreel

Flyreel is an insurtech startup that helps simplify the insurance process for both carriers and policyholders. We are fueled by a passion for using the best of today's technology to build solutions that protect people and the things that matter most to them. How do we do this? We have created a groundbreaking self-service property inspection tool that has made the home inspection process safer in the pandemic and seamless overall! Our team is diligent, transparent, honest and passionate about what we do. We put our customers first, and are relentless about our mission and focus to deliver the best experience possible to those that trust us with their business, and the people that they serve.