SUBMIT A TOP 100

Red Herring 100 North America Awards

Eligibility requirements:

Companies that apply must be headquartered in North America, must be privately held and not listed on any exchanges anywhere in the world. They must also not be previous winners of a Red Herring 100 award.

Selection Criteria:

A group of Red Herring editorial judges will review each nomination. The editors will assess nominees on both quantitative and qualitative criteria such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their ecosystem.

Red Herring 100 North America Award Winner benefits:

The Red Herring 100 North America companies will benefit from exclusive visibility through individual profiles featured in a special edition of Red Herring magazine, and in online profiles at RedHerring.com. Additionally, the Red Herring 100 North America award winners will have the opportunity to present at Red Herring North America 2008 before an exclusive audience of C-level entrepreneurs, corporate strategists, and over 50 venture capital funds. Finally, the Red Herring 100 North America companies will obtain invaluable recognition from technology industry executives, investors, observers and clients. Past award winners include Skype, FON, Xing, Kaspersky Labs and Last.fm.

Submissions process:

Each year, Red Herring receives a large number of submissions for its Top 100 lists. To streamline the process, we will only be accepting submissions for the Red Herring 100 North America through our on-line submission process.

The nomination forms will be accepted through Saturday, January 19.

To submit a company for consideration, click here.