Tech Impact Awards
Seattle Business Magazine’s Winners of the 2019 Tech Impact Awards
The best of the best: We honor the tech-sector leaders of our booming region
This article appears in print in the October 2019 issue. See more about the winners of the 2019 Tech Impact Awards here. Click here for a free subscription. It’s no secret that the Puget Sound region’s white-hot technology sector is among the nation’s strongest. Seattle ranks No. 2 in the United States for tech talent,…
2019 Tech Impact Awards, Gaming/Entertainment: Rec Room
Plus: Silver Award winner Unikrn
This article appears in print in the October 2019 issue. See more about the winners of the 2019 Tech Impact Awards here. Click here for a free subscription. Rec Room (formerly Against Gravity)Location: Seattle Rec Room cofounder and Chief Executive Officer Nick Fajt likes to tell the story of how one couple met, dated and…
Video Recap: 2017 Seattle Business Magazine Tech Impact Awards
See the scenes from MoPOP where we celebrated all of this year's winners.
Sponsored by UnitedHealthcare, AristaPoint and Perkins Coie, this years Tech Impact Awards shined a spotlight on 19 companies and leaders in the Seattle regions booming industry. From Blue Origin charting course for outer space to F5 Networks guarding against online threats to companies large and small, these companies are breaking new ground in their industry…
2017 Tech Impact Awards, Emerging: Flexe
Seattle-based Flexe is a Gold Award-winner. Plus: Silver Award-winner Phytelligence.
Location: Seattle | Employees: 39 The troubles of a friend inspired former digital marketing executive Karl Siebrecht to cofound Flexe (pronounced flex), an online marketplace that connects warehouse owners who have available space with manufacturers and distributors who seek it. E-commerce and delivery to doorsteps, Siebrecht learned, seldom fit well with the old infrastructure built…
2017 Tech Impact Awards, Security: F5 Networks
Seattle-based F5 Networks is a Gold Award-winner. Plus: Silver Award-winner Tempered Networks.
Location: Seattle | Employees: 4,515 You might never notice it while browsing cat videos, but the internet is a growing battlefield. A recent report from Kaspersky Lab, a cybersecurity firm, suggests worldwide distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on servers are gaining in ferocity, with one recent attack persisting for 277 hours. These assaults, which…