SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (Marketwired) — 11/20/13 — Equidity, the company dedicated to rebuilding strong IPO markets, today announced 29 new private companies have been nominated for the May 2014 inaugural Economic GrowthSTARS Awards. The nomination recognizes late-stage startups with market-leading potential for successful IPOs and the greatest ability to contribute growth and jobs to the economy. These 29 companies are added to the first 135 nominees named earlier in 2013, for a total of 164 GrowthSTARS Awards nominees — of which 14 have conducted IPOs, and three have had M&As in 2013.
Equidity CEO and founder, Mona DeFrawi, states, “The Economic GrowthSTARS Awards is an important move to recognize those companies with solid fundamentals that can make a real impact not only in delivering great products to their customers, but to the American economy at large. The math is simple; 92% of job creation occurs post IPO(1). In our new economy, entrepreneurship drives economic growth, making IPO = Growth + Jobs. Yet the IPO markets have not functioned properly to support new issues for over a dozen years, holding back the progress of these important companies for our economic growth. Equidity-s goal is to add critical missing supports for the IPO system, beginning with well-deserved national awareness for our GrowthSTARS nominees, and also through the Equidity 360 degrees private company information and investor relationship platform that supports transparency and fundamentals-based valuations.”
A VIP, invitation-only launch party is scheduled November 21, 2013 in Los Altos, CA, to honor nominees, investors and IPO-ecosystem leaders, informing the industry of the new awards and supports for IPO-track companies. A national PR and social media campaign will kick off the Awards in early 2014 to engage consumers interested in who could be the next Apple, Google, Intel, or Amazon — the companies best poised to impact our economy. Founding Sponsors of the Economic GrowthSTARS Awards include Silicon Valley Bank, Technology Credit Union, Barney and Barney Insurance, Merrill Corporation, Colum Five Media, Nano Technologies and eCoast.
A current list of all the nominees can be found below. All nominated companies are reviewed for IPO potential on multiple dimensions, including minimum requirements of at least $30M in annual revenues, with very high growth rates reaching at least $100M within a one to two year window. The nation-s highest quality long-term growth, qualified institutional investors, who are Equidity platform members, and independent GrowthSTARS Judges will announce 50 GrowthSTARS awardees, and 50 Rising STARS honorees in early 2014. 16 special category award winners will be announced at the inaugural Awards show in May 2014 and will include investors who have been instrumental in the creation of these important companies, and lifetime achievement awards. To find out more about Equidity, please visit .
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2. 37 Signals —
3. AddThis —
4. AppSense —
5. Bill Float —
6. Blurb —
7. BrightRoll–
8. chacha–
9. Dataminr —
10. Federated Media —
11. Flurry –
12. Gigya –
13. HotelTonight –
14. Infinite Campus –
15. Jumio –
16. Mblox –
17. Mixbook –
18. MobiTv –
19. OpenX –
20. Pivotal Systems –
21. Prosper.com –
22. Sharethis –
23. Silver Peak Systems –
24. Slacker –
25. Strands Labs –
26. Ustream –
27. Veoh –
28. Whitehat Securities –
29. xAd –
1. 10Gen –
2. 1stdibs –
3. A10 Networks –
4. Acquia –
5. Adap.tv –
6. Adconion –
7. Adknowledge –
8. AirBnB –
9. Apptio –
10. Atlassian –
11. Audience Science –
12. Automattic –
13. AutoTrader –
14. Barracuda Networks –
15. Bausch & Lomb –
16. Beachmint –
17. Bloom Energy –
18. Blue Kai –
19. Boku –
20. BookRenter –
21. Box –
22. BranchOut –
23. Bridgelux –
24. BrightSource Energy –
25. BUZZMEDIA –
26. Care.com –
27. Castlight Health –
28. CipherCloud –
29. The Climate Corporation –
30. Cloud Sherpas –
31. Cloudera –
32. Coaxis –
33. Collective –
34. Conduit –
35. Coupa –
36. Coverity –
37. Craigslist –
38. Criteo –
39. Cyan –
40. Cyoptics –
41. DigiCert –
42. DocuSign –
43. Domo –
44. Drobo –
45. Dropbox –
46. EdgeCast –
47. Elemental Technologies –
48. Eventbrite –
49. Evernote –
50. Fab –
51. FireEye –
52. Gigamon –
53. Gilt Groupe –
54. Github –
55. Glam Media –
56. Good Technology –
57. GoPro –
58. GT Nexus –
59. HubSpot –
60. Hulu –
61. Intacct –
62. IntegenX –
63. Intematix –
64. IO Data Centers –
65. Jawbone –
66. July Systems –
67. Kabam –
68. Kaltura –
69. Klout –
70. The Ladders –
71. LegalZoom –
72. Lending Club –
73. LifeStreet Media –
74. Liquid Robotics –
75. Lithium –
76. LiveScribe –
77. LivingSocial –
78. Lynda.com –
79. Marin Software –
80. Marketo –
81. MarkLogic –
82. Mediaocean –
83. Metabolon –
84. MobileIron –
85. MuleSoft –
86. Nexant –
87. Nimble Storage –
88. nLIGHT –
89. oDesk –
90. ON24 –
91. One Kings Lane –
92. Opower –
93. Palantir –
94. Panasas –
95. Pinterest –
96. PubMatic –
97. Quantcast –
98. Quora –
99. RGB Networks –
100. RightScale –
101. RingCentral –
102. RiseSmart –
103. Rocket Fuel –
104. Rovio –
105. Rubicon –
106. SAY Media –
107. Scale Media –
108. SevOne –
109. Silver Spring Networks –
110. Sonos –
111. Spotify –
112. Square –
113. Storm8 –
114. Stripe –
115. SugarCRM –
116. SurveyMonkey –
117. Tableau Software –
118. Telogis –
119. Trion Worlds –
120. Trunk Club –
121. Turn –
122. Twilio –
123. Twitter –
124. Uber –
125. Vibrant Media –
126. Violin Memory –
127. Virgin America –
128. Wayfair —
129. Xactly –
130. Xoom –
131. Yodle –
132. Zendesk –
133. ZocDoc –
134. Zoosk –
135. Zoove –
Equidity-s mission is to fix the dysfunctional IPO process that is holding back U.S. economic growth and innovation. Equidity 360 degrees is a private company information and investor relationship platform that organizes the opaque and fragmented private markets into a technology-enabled pre-IPO on-ramp for privately held companies and long-term, growth QIB investors, revolutionizing the late stage Pre-IPO and IPO process and optimizing results. Equidity-s Economic GrowthSTARS Awards honor the top IPO-track companies, creating awareness and branding support for the next “Heroes of Our Economy.”
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[1] “Venture Impact: The Economic Importance of Venture-Backed Companies to the U.S. Economy,” IHS Global for the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).
Elisa Valinoti
Equidity, Inc.
415.939.5100
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