The AlwaysOn Global 250 represents the top emerging companies that are creating new business opportunities in the Global Silicon Valley. These startups are opening up a new era in worldwide innovation that’s not only changing the way people live, it’s bringing a bright, new vision to the business world. Thousands of new ideas are making their mark, thanks to an expanding venture economy and a wide range of options available to entrepreneurs with the tenacity to take their idea from concept to market.

With the unprecedented shift from desktop to mobile, cloud and infrastructure innovators are making it possible for an entirely new generation of application and software solutions to enter the technology marketplace. The enterprise world has endured a long ramp-up to the cloud, but is now flocking to it with alacrity. Bleeding-edge consumer adoption has pushed forward the development of powerful media applications, helping people connect with the world around them, participate in discussion, and discover products from around the world. Savvy marketers and advertisings are no longer blitzing consumers with unwanted messages. Data analysis combined with cool, new ad campaigns is turning consumers’ heads and leading to actionable messages that convert into real dollars and cents.

Each year, the AlwaysOn editorial team, along with investment and industry experts across the globe scour the entrepreneurial community to identify the top 250 private technology companies that are creating high-growth businesses that offer huge upside potential for investors. The AlwaysOn Global 250 companies are leaders amongst their peers and developing radical new approaches and technologies that are likely to push outside the bounds of existing markets. Companies are selected based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.

The 12th Annual AlwaysOn Global 250 Competition Has Begun!
To help identify this year’s hottest global technology startups, we’d like your help. We’re looking for the top emerging private companies that are creating new business opportunities in world of technology, from cloud infrastructure to consumer Internet to digital media to technology enablers and devices to mobile to software-as-a-service and enterprise. To nominate a company to the AlwaysOn Global 250, please fill in the qualification form. After successful submission, companies will be notified if they meet our criteria for the next step in the process, the CEO interview.

We look forward to sifting through the nominees to find the most disruptive entrepreneurs who are shaking up the Global Silicon Valley and creating opportunity and revenue. Let the competition begin!

The companies that have been nominated to the 2014 AlwaysOn Global 250 so far are listed below by category.

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B2B Applications – Cloud and Infrastructure

AlienVault
www.alienvault.com
San Mateo, CA

AppDynamics
www.appdynamics.com
San Francisco, CA

Apptio
apptio.com
Bellevue, WA

Big Switch Networks
www.bigswitch.com
Mountain View, CA

FreeWheel
www.freewheel.tv
San Mateo, CA

Spiceworks
www.spiceworks.com
Austin, TX

B2B Applications – Digital Media

140 Proof
140proof.com
San Francisco, CA

7Echo
www.7echo.com
New York, NY

Ace Metrix
www.acemetrix.com
El Segundo, CA

Adap.tv
www.adap.tv
San Mateo, CA

Adchemy
www.adchemy.com
Foster City, CA

Adconion Media Group
adconion.com
Santa Monica, CA

AddThis
www.addthis.com
McLean, VA

Adknowledge
www.adknowledge.com
Kansas City, MO

AppNexus
www.appnexus.com
New York, NY

Badgeville
www.badgeville.com
Menlo Park, CA

Birst
www.birst.com
San Francisco, CA

BrightEdge
www.brightedge.com
San Mateo, CA

Collective
collective.com
New York, NY

Compass Labs
www.compasslabs.com
San Jose, CA

Conductor
www.conductor.com
New York, NY

CPX Interactive
www.cpxinteractive.com
New York, NY

Criteo
www.criteo.com
Parils, France

Datalogix
www.datalogix.com
Westminster, CO

Dataminr
www.dataminr.com
New York, NY

DataSift
datasift.com
Reading, U.K.

DataXu
www.dataxu.com
Boston, MA

Digilant
www.digilant.com
Boston, MA

eXelate
exelate.com
New York, NY

Extreme Reach
www.extremereach.com
Needham, MA

Guavus
www.guavus.com
San Mateo, CA

GradientX
gradientx.com
Santa Monica, CA

Integral Ad Science
www.adsafemedia.com
New York, NY

Kaltura
corp.kaltura.com
New York, NY

Kargo
www.kargo.com
New York, NY

LifeStreet Media
www.lifestreetmedia.com
San Carlos, CA

LiveIntent
www.liveintent.com
New York, NY

Martini Media Network
www.martinimedianetwork.com
San Francisco, CA

Mass Relevance
www.massrelevance.com
Austin, TX

Media6Degrees
m6d.com
New York, NY

MediaMath
www.mediamath.com
New York, NY

Mediaocean
www.mediaocean.com
New York, NY

Milyoni
www.milyoni.com
Pleasanton, CA

MixRank
mixrank.com
San Francisco, CA

Moat
www.moat.com
New York, NY

MobiTV
www.mobitv.com
Emeryville, CA

Monetate
monetate.com
Conshohocken, PA

NewsCred
www.newscred.com
New York, NY

OneSpot
www.onespot.com
Austin, TX

OpenX
www.openx.com
Pasadena, CA

PowerLinks Media
www.powerlinks.com
London, U.K.

PubMatic
www.pubmatic.com
Palo Alto, CA

PulsePoint
www.pulsepoint.com
New York, NY

Quantcast
www.quantcast.com
San Francisco, CA

RAMP
www.ramp.com
Boston, MA

Rocket Fuel
www.rocketfuel.com
Redwood City, CA

Rubicon Project, The
rubiconproject.com
Los Angeles, CA

Simulmedia
www.simulmedia.com
New York, NY

SponsorPay
www.sponsorpay.com
New York, NY

Stipple
stipple.com
San Francisco, CA

StormWind
stormwind.com
Scottsdale, AZ

Tapad
www.tapad.com
New York, NY

Topsy Labs
topsylabs.com
San Francisco, CA

Trade Desk, The
www.thetradedesk.com
Ventura, CA

Venzo Digital
www.venzodigital.com
Atlanta, GA

Visible Measures
www.visiblemeasures.com
Boston, MA

Vobile
www.vobileinc.com
Santa Clara, CA

YuMe
www.yume.com
Redwood City, CA

B2B Applications – Mobile

AdColony
adcolony.com
Los Angeles , CA

AirWatch
www.air-watch.com
Atlanta, GA

Altierre
www.altierre.com
San Jose, CA

appbackr
appbackr.com
Palo Alto, CA

Appia
www.appia.com
Durham, NC

JiWire
www.jiwire.com
San Francisco, CA

Medialets
www.medialets.com
New York, NY

Placecast
placecast.net
San Francisco, CA

Smaato
www.smaato.com
Redwood Shores, CA

B2B Applications – SaaS and Enterprise

[x+1]
www.xplusone.com
New York, NY

2U
2u.com
Landover, MD

33Across
www.33across.com
New York, NY

500friends
500friends.com
San Francisco, CA

Achievers
www.achievers.com
San Francisco, CA

Adaptive Planning
www.adaptiveplanning.com
Mountain View, CA

Apttus
www.apttus.com
San Mateo, CA

Aria Systems
www.ariasystems.com
San Francisco, CA

Atlassian
www.atlassian.com
Sydney, Australia

Baynote
www.baynote.com
San Jose, CA

Blue Jeans Network
bluejeans.com
Mountain View, CA

BlueKai
www.bluekai.com
Cupertino, CA

Brand Affinity Technologies
www.brandaffinity.net
Irvine, CA

C3 Energy
www.c3energy.com
Redwood City, CA

CareCloud
www.carecloud.com
Miami, FL

Cartera Commerce
www.cartera.com
Lexington, MA

Clarizen
www.clarizen.com
San Mateo, CA

Clearstory Data
clearstorydata.com
Palo Alto, CA

Climate Corporation, The
climate.com
San Francisco, CA

Coupa Software
www.coupa.com
San Mateo, CA

Cvent
www.cvent.com
McLean, VA

DOMO
www.domo.com
American Fork, UT

Dynamic Signal
www.dynamicsignal.com
San Bruno, CA

Eventbrite
www.eventbrite.com
San Francisco, CA

Evidon
www.evidon.com
New York, NY

FinancialForce.com
www.financialforce.com
San Francisco, CA

Five9
www.five9.com
San Ramon, CA

Flurry
www.flurry.com
San Francisco, CA

Get Satisfaction
getsatisfaction.com
San Francisco, CA

Hearsay Social
hearsaysocial.com
San Francisco, CA

HubSpot
www.hubspot.com
Cambridge, MA

Huddle
www.huddle.com
London, U.K.

Hybris Software
www.hybris.com
Zug, Switzerland

InsideSales.com
www.insidesales.com
Provo, UT

Instructure
www.instructure.com
Sandy, UT

Intacct
www.intacct.com
San Jose, CA

Kenandy
www.kenandy.com
Redwood City, CA

Knewton
www.knewton.com
New York, NY

Kno
www.kno.com
Santa Clara, CA

Lattice Engines
www.lattice-engines.com
San Mateo, CA

Lithium
www.lithium.com
Emeryville, CA

LiveOps
www.liveops.com
Santa Clara, CA

Maven
www.maven.co
San Francisco, CA

Mondo
www.mondo.com
New York, NY

Moxie Software
www.moxiesoft.com
Sunnyvale, CA

MyCityWay
www.mycityway.com
New York , NY

Nitro
www.nitropdf.com
Melbourne, VIC, Australia

oDesk
www.odesk.com
Redwood City, CA

On Deck Capital
www.ondeckcapital.com
New York, NY

OPower
opower.com
San Francisco, CA

Palantir
www.palantir.com
Palo Alto, CA

PivotLink
www.pivotlink.com
San Francisco, CA

Retailigence
www.retailigence.com
Redwood City, CA

RetailNext
www.retailnext.net
San Jose, CA

Sailthru
www.sailthru.com
New York, NY

Samba Tech
www.sambatech.com.br
San Paulo, Brazil

ServiceMax
www.servicemax.com
Pleasanton, CA

ShareThis
sharethis.com
Mountain View, CA

Shopify
www.shopify.com
Ottowa, Ont. Canada

SilkRoad
www.silkroad.com
Chicago, IL

Skytree
www.skytree.net
San Jose, CA

Spredfast
www.spredfast.com
Austin, TX

Sprinklr
www.sprinklr.com
New York, NY

Spruce Media
www.sprucemedia.com
San Francisco, CA

STELLAService
stellaservice.com
New York, NY

SugarCRM
www.sugarcrm.com
Cupertino, CA

Stripe
stripe.com
San Francisco, CA

Taulia
www.taulia.com
San Francisco, CA

Turn
www.turn.com
Redwood City, CA

Veeva Systems
www.veevasystems.com
Pleasanton, CA

Verdom IT Projects
www.verdom.net
Moscow, Russia

Visual.ly
visual.ly
San Francisco, CA

Xactly
www.xactlycorp.com
San Jose, CA

Zendesk
www.zendesk.com
San Francisco, CA

Zuora
www.zuora.com
Redwood City, CA

B2B Infrastructure – Cloud and Infrastructure

10gen
www.10gen.com
New York, NY

Acquia
www.acquia.com
Burlington, MA

Actifio
www.actifio.com
Waltham, MA

Aerohive Networks
www.aerohive.com
Sunnyvale, CA

Agari
agari.com
Palo Alto, CA

Apigee
www.apigee.com
Santa Clara, CA

Appirio
www.appirio.com
San Mateo, CA

Appnomic Systems
www.appnomic.com
Bangalore, India

Atlantis Computing
www.atlantiscomputing.com
Mountain View, CA

Ayasdi
www.ayasdi.com
Palo Alto, CA

Box
www.box.com
Palo Alto, CA

Calxeda
www.calxeda.com
Austin, TX

Cloudera
www.cloudera.com
Palo Alto, CA

Cloudflare
www.cloudflare.com
San Francisco, CA

Cloudmark
www.cloudmark.com
San Francisco, CA

Cloudmeter
cloudmeter.com
Mountain View, CA

Cloudscaling
cloudscaling.com
San Francisco, CA

Clustrix
www.clustrix.com
San Francisco, CA

CollabNet
www.collab.net
Brisbane, CA

Conviva
www.conviva.com
San Mateo, CA

Coraid
www.coraid.com
Redwood City, CA

Couchbase
www.couchbase.com
Mountain View, CA

Embrane
www.embrane.com
Santa Clara, CA

Engine Yard
www.engineyard.com
San Francisco, CA

Eucalpytus Systems
www.eucalyptus.com
Goleta, CA

Evolve IP
www.evolveip.net
Wayne, PA

FireEye
www.fireeye.com
Milpitas, CA

Gigya
www.gigya.com
Mountain View, CA

Gumiyo
www.gumiyo.com
Woodland Hills, CA

HortonWorks
hortonworks.com
Sunnyvale, CA

Instart Logic
instartlogic.com
Mountain View, CA

iovation
www.iovation.com
Portland,OR

Joyent
www.joyent.com
Sausalito, CA

MapR
www.mapr.com
San Jose, CA

Midokura
www.midokura.com
San Francisco, CA

MuleSoft
www.mulesoft.com
San Francisco, CA

New Relic
newrelic.com
San Francisco, CA

Nimble Storage
www.nimblestorage.com
San Jose, CA

NuoDB
www.nuodb.com
Cambridge, MA

Okta
www.okta.com
San Francisco, CA

Panzura
panzura.com
San Jose, CA

Pertino
pertino.com
Los Gatos, CA

Ping Identity
www.pingidentity.com
Denver, CO

Piston Cloud Computing
www.pistoncloud.com
San Francisco, CA

PLUMgrid
www.plumgrid.c
Sunnyvale, CA

Pure Storage
www.purestorage.com
Mountain View, CA

RightScale
www.rightscale.com
Santa Barbara, CA

RiverMeadow Software
www.rivermeadow.com
Westford, MA

SnapLogic
www.snaplogic.com
San Mateo, CA

SOASTA
www.soasta.com
Mountain View, CA

Soonr
www.soonr.com
Campbell, CA

SugarSync
www.sugarsync.com
Santa Clara, CA

ThingWorx
www.thingworx.com
Downingtown, PA

ThreatMetrix
threatmetrix.com
San Jose, CA

Tilera
www.tilera.com
San Jose, CA

Violin Memory
www.violin-memory.com
Mountain View, CA

Virtela
www.virtela.net
Greenwood Village, CO

WhiteHat Security
www.whitehatsec.com
Santa Clara, CA

Zend
www.zend.com
Cupertino, CA

B2B Infrastructure – Mobile

AnyPresence
www.anypresence.com
Reston, VA

Appallicious
www.appallicious.com
San Francisco, CA

Appcelerator
www.appcelerator.com
Mountain View, CA

DudaMobile
www.dudamobile.com
Palo Alto, CA

Good Technology
www.good.com
Sunnyvale, CA

July Systems
julysystems.com
San Francisco, CA

MobileIron
www.mobileiron.com
Mountain View, CA

Mocana
www.mocana.com
San Francisco, CA

Perfecto Mobile
www.perfectomobile.com
Woburn, MA

Phunware
www.phunware.com
Austin, TX

Consumer Devices

Basis
mybasis.com
San Francisco, CA

Jawbone
jawbone.com
San Francisco, CA

Pebble
getpebble.com
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA

Consumer Internet

Aereo
aereo.com
Long Island, NY

Airbnb
www.airbnb.com
San Francisco, CA

Beachmint
www.beachmint.com
Santa Monica, CA

Beyond the Rack Enterprises
www.beyondtherack.com
Saint-Laurent, Qc., Canada

Big Fish Games
www.bigfishgames.com
Seattle, WA

BillFloat
www.billfloat.com
San Francisco, CA

Birchbox
www.birchbox.com
New York, NY

BlogHer
www.blogher.com
Belmont, CA

BrightRoll
www.brightroll.com
San Francisco, CA

BuzzFeed
www.buzzfeed.com
New York, NY

Castlight Health
www.castlighthealth.com
San Francisco, CA

Chegg
www.chegg.com
Santa Clara, CA

chloe + isabel
www.chloeandisabel.com
New York, NY

Cleverbug
www.cleverbug.com
Dublin, Eire

Complex Media
www.complexmediainc.com
New York, NY

Coursera
www.coursera.org
Mountain View, CA

Credit Karma
www.creditkarma.com
San Francisco, CA

DailyWorth
www.dailyworth.com
New York, NY

DocuSign
www.docusign.com
San Francisco, CA

Dropbox
www.dropbox.com
San Francisco, CA

Edmodo
www.edmodo.com
San Mateo, CA

Etsy
www.etsy.com
Brooklyn, NY

EverydayHealth
www.everydayhealth.com
New York, NY

Fab.com
fab.com
New York, NY

Fancy
www.fancy.com
New York, NY

Flexscore
www.flexscore.com
San Francisco, CA

Flipboard
www.flipboard.com
Palo Alto, CA

Funny or Die
www.funnyordie.com
San Mateo, CA

Gilt Groupe
www.gilt.com
New York, NY

Glam Media
www.glammedia.com
Brisbane, CA

Grockit
grockit.com
San Francisco, CA

Hollywoodland
hollywoodland.com
Los Angeles, CA

HotelTonight
www.hoteltonight.com
San Mateo, CA

Houzz
www.houzz.com
Palo Alto, CA

Kabbage
www.kabbage.com
Atlanta, GA

Kickstarter
www.kickstarter.com
New York, NY

Lending Club
lendingclub.com
Redwood City, CA

LivingSocial
livingsocial.com
Washington DC

Lumos Labs
www.lumosity.com
San Francisco, CA

Machinima
www.machinima.com
Los Angeles, CA

Maker Studios
www.makerstudios.com
Culver City, CA

Marqeta
www.marqeta.com
Emeryville, CA

Moda Operandi
modaoperandi.com
New York, NY

Motif Investing
www.motifinvesting.com
San Mateo, CA

Music Mastermind
www.musicmastermind.com
Calabasas, CA

MyLife
www.mylife.com
Los Angeles, CA

One Kings Lane
www.onekingslane.com
San Francisco, CA

ooVoo
www.okta.com
New York, NY

Pearl.com
www.pearl.com
San Francisco, CA

Pinterest
www.pinterest.com
Palo Alto, CA

Poshmark
poshmark.com
Menlo Park, CA

Quirky
www.quirky.com
New York, NY

Quora
www.quora.com
Palo Alto, CA

Raved
raved.com
Sunnyvale, CA

Rent the Runway
www.renttherunway.com
New York, NY

RetailMeNot
www.retailmenot.com
Austin, TX

SavingStar
savingstar.com
Waltham, MA

SecondMarket
www.secondmarket.com
New York, NY

Shazam
www.shazam.com
London, U.K.

Shutl
www.shutl.com
San Francisco, CA

SoundCloud
soundcloud.com
Berlin, Germany

Sulia
sulia.com
New York, NY

SurveyMonkey
www.surveymonkey.com
Palo Alto, CA

Tagged
www.tagged.com
San Francisco, CA

TuneIn
tunein.com
Palo Alto, CA

Twitter
www.twitter.com
San Francisco, CA

Uber
www.uber.com
San Francisco, CA

Udacity
www.udacity.com
Palo Alto, CA

Voicebase
www.voicebase.com
Novato, CA

Wonga
www.wonga.com
London, U.K.

Yodlee
www.yodlee.com
Redwood City, CA

YouSendIt
www.yousendit.com
Campbell, CA

Consumer Internet – Mobile

Bubble Motion
www.bubblemotion.com
Singapore

Evernote
www.evernote.com
Mountain View, CA

Foursquare
foursquare.com
New York, NY

Givit
www.givit.com
San Diego, CA

Incoming Media
www.incoming-media.com
Palo Alto, CA

Kiip
kiip.me
San Francisco, CA

Obopay
obopay.com
Redwood City, CA

Path
www.path.com
San Francisco, CA

Rovio Entertainment
www.rovio.com
Espoo, Finland

Snapchat
www.snapchat.com
Pacific Palisades, CA

Spotify
spotify.com
Luxembourg

Square
squareup.com
San Francisco, CA

Vuclip
www.vuclip.com
Milpitas, CA

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