WTIA “Oscar” Finalists Called to the Red Carpet
The WTIA has named this year’s Finalists for the 2012 Industry Achievement Awards including the “Best Early Stage Company of the Year,” “Best Seed Stage Company of the Year,” “Consumer Product or Service of the Year,” “Commercial Product or Service of the year,” “Technology Accelerator of the Year” (Service Provider of the Year), and “CEO of the Year.” Here are the Finalists….
Best Early Stage Company of the Year
Appature, Inc.
Appature, Inc. is a Seattle-based technology company that provides surprisingly simple cloud-based marketing solutions designed exclusively for healthcare companies.
BigDoor
BigDoor’s gamified loyalty platform enables online publishers and marketers to use gamification and rewards to increase user engagement, acquire and retain customers, and increase revenue.
GreenCupboards
GreenCupboards is an online retailer of environmentally friendly products. Founded in 2008, it generated $7.2 million in revenue in 2011, is profitable and employs 47.
Best Seed Stage Company of the Year
Simply Measured
Simply Measured makes it easy to access all your social media data in one place and create beautiful, custom reports in Excel and online.
Spiral Genetics
Spiral Genetics provides a software as a service solution for large scale DNA analysis. We transform genetic data into clinical results.
Zipline Games
Moai helps game developers build better games, faster, and get them into the hands of more players via major modern app stores (iOS, Android, Chrome).
Consumer Product or Service of the Year
DocuSign
DocuSign Ink is the world’s first personal electronic signature, allowing individuals to securely sign and return any document, from any device – for free.
Parallels
Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac is the No. 1 selling virtualization software for running Windows and Mac applications side-by-side on a Mac without rebooting.
Zillow
The Zillow Mortgage Marketplace App for iPhone combines personalized loan quotes with advanced calculators and tools to help borrowers understand how much home they can afford, what their monthly payments would be, and whether refinancing their current home makes financial sense.
Commercial Product or Service of the Year
EagleView Technologies
EagleView Technologies invented patented software that produces 3D aerial roof measurement reports that are extremely accurate and detailed for the construction and insurance markets.
SEOMoz
Seattle-based SEOmoz develops and sells resources to maximize SEO. Today, SEOmoz PRO is the world’s most popular SEO software, hosting the web’s largest SEO community.
Skytap
Skytap’s hybrid cloud solution gives businesses an easy and secure cloud computing environment while complimenting private datacenters and extending internal IT.
Technology Accelerator of the Year (Service Provider of the Year)
Founders Co-Op
Founders Co-Op is a seed-stage venture community and entrepreneurial catalyst for the Pacific Northwest.
Lighter Capital
Lighter Capital is disrupting early-stage funding with revenue-based loans, allowing entrepreneurs to focus on growing their businesses.
Opscode
Opscode helps organizations of all sizes develop fully automated server infrastructures that scale easily and predictably, and can be quickly rebuilt in any environment.
CEO of the Year
Ben Huh – Cheezburger
Cheezburger is one of the largest online humor publishers in the world where millions of people come every month to get their 5-minutes of happiness.
Ben Huh is the CEO and founder of Cheezburger. He’s a former journalist turned dot com entrepreneur who has a knack for nailing the zeitgeist and has been credited with bringing Internet memes to the mainstream and popularizing Internet culture. The success of Cheezburger is attributed to Ben’s knowledge of memes, viral content, and crowd sourcing. Ben graduated with a BSJ from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
Bryan Mistele – INRIX
INRIX® is a leading global provider of real-time traffic information and connected driving services in the car, online and on mobile devices.
Bryan Mistele is the co-founder, President & Chief Executive Officer of INRIX. Bryan started INRIX in 2004, having had more than 15 years experience building high-technology businesses and transforming industries through the power of information technology.
Steve Singh – Concur
Concur is a leading provider of integrated travel and expense management solutions. Concur’s services are trusted by over 10,000 clients around the globe.
Steve Singh has served as Concur’s Chief Executive Officer since 1996 and as a director since 1993, including service as Chairman of the Board of Directors since September 1999. From 1993 to 1996, Steve was General Manager of the Contact Management Division at Symantec Corporation, an international technology firm focused on protecting information and computer systems. Steve serves as Chairman of the NBTA Foundation Board, serves on the board of directors for AdReady and Washington Roundtable.
The Awards festivities commence Thursday, March 15, 2012 from 5:00 – 9:30 pm at the Showbox SODO, Seattle
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The WNBA Eagle Has Landed in Seattle
Sue Bird, the seven-time Seattle Storm WNBA All-Star, will be finishing her career in Seattle exactly as she intended.
Thursday it was finalized and while Bird would not comment publicly about the terms of her deal it should carry the 10-year veteran well into retirement.
“And if she lasts through this contract, we’ll just get another contract,” Storm coach and general manager Brian Agler said via telephone from Seattle. “Sue will tell us how long she wants to play.”
Details and league rules made Bird an unrestricted free agent for the second time in her career. Agler never considered making Bird a “core” player, taking her at her word that she would return to Seattle, even though she was the best player available in the free-agent pool. [24×7]
