Tech Impact Awards
2017 Tech Impact Awards, SaaS: Outreach
Seattle-based Outreach, which now has more than 15,000 users, is a Gold Award-winner. Plus: Silver Award-winner Zonar Systems.
Location: Seattle | Employees: 170 Making a good sale only starts with good leads, Manny Medina asserts. The company he helms, Outreach, provides the structured framework for pursuing sales that make customer relationship management (CRM) systems like Salesforce work. Speaking on the phone, taking meetings, attending events all this activity happens outside of CRM, he…
2017 Tech Impact Awards, Consumer: OfferUp
Bellevue-based OfferUp, with 35 million users, is a Gold Award-winner. Plus: Silver Award-winner Vicis.
Location: Bellevue | Employees: 218 Cluttered garages can breed unicorns. Seattles OfferUp, the internet rummage marketplace connecting local sellers and buyers, has become a top download among lifestyle and shopping apps and boasts 35 million users. Cofounder and CEO Nick Huzar attributes that popularity to the companys focus on simplicity and trust. Were making selling…
2017 Tech Impact Awards, New Technology: Kymeta Corporation
Redmond-based Kymeta Corporation, which brings connections to remote areas through its mTenna, is a Gold Award-winner. Plus: Silver Award-winner Echodyne.
Location: Redmond | Employees: 165 If, after five years of development, there were doubts that the world was ready for Kymetas lightweight, flat-panel antenna that connects buses, ships, trains and planes to satellite internet, those misgivings are now dispelled. In its first months of release, President and CEO Nathan Kundtz reports, There are more people…
2017 Tech Impact Awards, Consumer: OfferUp
Bellevue-based OfferUp, with 35 million users, is a Gold Award-winner. Plus: Silver Award-winner Vicis.
Location: Bellevue | Employees: 218 Cluttered garages can breed unicorns. Seattles OfferUp, the internet rummage marketplace connecting local sellers and buyers, has become a top download among lifestyle and shopping apps and boasts 35 million users. Cofounder and CEO Nick Huzar attributes that popularity to the companys focus on simplicity and trust. Were making selling…
2017 Tech Impact Awards, New Technology: Kymeta Corporation
Redmond-based Kymeta Corporation, which brings connections to remote areas through its mTenna, is a Gold Award-winner. Plus: Silver Award-winner Echodyne.
Location: Redmond | Employees: 165 If, after five years of development, there were doubts that the world was ready for Kymetas lightweight, flat-panel antenna that connects buses, ships, trains and planes to satellite internet, those misgivings are now dispelled. In its first months of release, President and CEO Nathan Kundtz reports, There are more people…
2017 Tech Impact Awards, Cloud: Xevo
Bellevue-based Xevo is a Gold Award-winner. Plus: Silver Award-winner Algorithmia.
Location: Bellevue | Employees: 250 The world of cars is changing, notes Xevo CEO Dan Gittleman, and Xevo is already a major force of that change. More than just transportation, todays vehicles are generators and accumulators of data, much of which can help improve the driving experience. Gittleman observes that a typical automobile has hundreds…
Seattle Business Magazine 2017 Tech Impact Champion: Steve Singh
Steve Singh -- CEO of Docker Inc, cofounder and executive chairman of Center, cofounder and former CEO of Concur Technologies -- is the 2017 Tech Impact Champion.
As cofounder and CEO of Concur Technologies, Steve Singh successfully shepherded from startup to market leader a business that eased the tracking of travel expenses. Under Singhs leadership, with brother Rajeev and partner Mike Hilton, Concur made the pioneering leap from retail software to SAAS, bringing customers and partners into the cloud. More than two…
Spaceflight Industries Signs On to ‘Breakthrough’ Partnership
The Tech Impact Award-winner signed a strategic partnership with The Space Alliance in Paris.
Spaceflight Industries has entered into a new strategic partnership with the Space Alliance, the company announced. Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries, an honoree at the upcoming 2017 Seattle Business magazine Tech Impact Awards, called it a major breakthrough. Today in Paris, France, the Space Alliance, formed by Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio, signed a partnership with Spaceflight…
2016 Tech Impact Awards: Tech Impact Champion
Congratulations, Ed Lazowska!
WINNER:Ed Lazowska, Ph.D.Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington When Ed Lazowska arrived in Seattle 39 years ago as an assistant professor, both the University of Washington and the region were very different places. In computer science, he was the newest of only 13 faculty members. The regions tech…
2016 Tech Impact Awards: Marketing/Analytics
Winner: QuoteWizard
WINNER:QuoteWizardLocation: Seattle | Employees: 195 CEO and cofounder Scott Peyree describes his fast-growing marketplace as the Expedia of insurance, helping to move a huge, longstanding auto, home and life insurance industry online, where consumers increasingly expect them to be. QuoteWizards role as connector, he explains, is to make the process easier because we understand how…
2016 Tech Impact Awards: Virtual/Augmented Reality
Winner: Microsoft HoloLens; Silver Awards: Envelop VR and Valve Corporation
WINNER:Microsoft HololensLocation: Redmond | Employees: N/AThe slim mixed-reality headset and the software infrastructure built around it is far more than a fully untethered holographic computer, according to Microsoft Technical Fellow Alex Kipman. At a recent TED talk unveiling, striding on three-dimensional projections of Martian terrain, he claimed it as a step toward tools that enhance…
2016 Tech Impact Awards: User Interface
Winner: Amazon.com; Silver Award: Skype Translator
WINNER:Amazon.comSeattle | Employees: 245,200 (worldwide)It might be called Echo, but its voice is named Alexa. The smooth-talking avatar not only makes Amazons innovative web-connected, cylinder-shaped speaker easy to control, she even tells jokes. And whats especially impressive about Alexa is her ability to understand voice commands from speakers with varying accents. The original inspiration for…
2016 Tech Impact Awards: Consumer/Retail
Winner: Avvo; Silver Award: OfferUp
WINNER: AvvoLocation: Seattle | Employees: 385If you need medical help, you probably know to go to the hospital. But where do you go if you need legal help? Thats the idea behind Avvo, now the largest legal services marketplace, with more than 270,000 lawyers offering their expertise. Avvo CEO Mark Britton says most legal issues…