AlwaysOn's editors are proud to announce that Violin Memory has been chosen as this year's AlwaysOn Company of the Year. Violin Memory joins a prestigious list of previous AlwaysOn Global 250 overall winners. Since its inception in 2003, the AO250 overall winner's circle includes Google, salesforce.com, MySQL, Skype, YouTube, BlueLithium, Twitter, and SecondMarket. The New Company of the Year Award went to Square, the mobile payments startup founded by Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey. AlwaysOn also announced its industry category winners as well, including: Dropbox, RadiumOne, Angie's List, meebo, Spotify and Jive.
Overall Winner: Violin Memory
Category: Cloud and Infrastructure
URL: www.violin-memory.com
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
CEO: Don Basile
Year Founded: 2005
Employees: 150
Investors Include: Rationalwave Capital Partners, Private Equity General Partners, Crossover, Juniper Networks, Toshiba, KPCB
AO Take: Violin Memory is pioneering the future of flash memory in the enterprise data center with memory arrays that accelerate business critical applications and let enterprises virtualize and optimize their IT infrastructures. Specifically designed for sustained performance with high reliability, Violin's memory arrays scale to hundreds of terabytes and millions of IOPS with low, spike-free latency. In June, using Violin's 3200 flash memory arrays, IBM Research scanned 10 billion files 37 times faster than the previous record of 1 billion files in three hours that has stood since 2007. Breaking records is nothing new for Violin: In May, it set a world-record dual-socket TPC-E benchmark with HP.
New Company of the Year: Square
Category: Cloud and Infrastructure
URL: www.squareup.com
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
CEO: Jack Dorsey
Year Founded: 2009
Employees: 70
Investors Include: Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Sequoia Capital, Visa, KPCB, Tiger Technology Global Management
Category Winners:
Cloud and Infrastructure
Category Winner: Dropbox
URL: www.dropbox.com
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
CEO: Drew Houston
Year Founded: 2007
Employees: 65
Investors Include: Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners
Consumer Internet
Category Winner: Angies's List
URL: www.angieslist.com
Headquarters: Indianapolis, IN
CEO: William S. Oesterle
Year Founded: 1995
Employees: ca. 450
Investors Include: Battery Ventures, Lighthouse Capital Partners, Saints Capital
Digital Media
Category Winner: RadiumOne
URL: www.radiumone.com
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
CEO: Gurbaksh Chahal
Year Founded: 2009
Employees: 100
Investors Include: Adams Street Partners, Trinity Ventures, Crosslink Capital, DFJ Esprit
Enablers and Devices
Category Winner: meebo
URL: www.meebo.com
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
CEO: Seth Sternberg
Year Founded: 2005
Employees: 180
Investors Include: True Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Jafco Ventures, KTB Ventures, Time Warner Investments, Khosla Ventures
Mobile
Category Winner: Spotify
URL: www.spotify.com
Headquarters: London, U.K.
CEO: Daniel Ek
Year Founded: 2009
Employees: 200
Investors Include: Creandum, Northzone Ventures, Wellington Partners, Founders Fund, KPCB, Accel Partners
SaaS and Enterprise
Category Winner: Jive
URL: www.jivesoftware.com
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
CEO: Tony Zingale
Year Founded: 2001
Employees: ca. 75
Investors Include: Sequoia Capital, KPCB
The winners of this competition will be officially honored at:
Silicon Valley Innovation Summit 2011
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Santa Clara University
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