April 26, 2017, Amsterdam, Netherlands - Red Herring announced its Red Herring Europe award winners this evening at the Top 100 forum, recognizing Europe’s leading private companies and celebrating these startups’ innovations and technologies across their respective industries.
Red Herring Top 100 Europe enlists outstanding entrepreneurs and promising companies. It selects the award winners from approximately 1,200 privately financed companies each year in the European Region. Red Herring’s editors were among the first to recognize that companies such as Alibaba, Facebook, Google, Kakao, Skype, SuperCell, Spotify, Twitter, and YouTube would change the way we live and work. Thousands of the most interesting and innovative companies have graced the Top 100 list over the years.
Launched in 2001 as a proprietary mobile device enhancing networking at events, SpotMe pivoted in 2011 into a mobile application technology and service provider to become today the number one trusted event app platform for Fortune 500 global organizations. SpotMe CEO Pierre Metrailler says: “We are honored Red Herring has recognized us as for this distinguished award. Throughout our 16 years of existence, SpotMe has navigated several technology cycles and this selection is a recognition of our ability to continuously reinvent ourselves.” The company has grown into a global technology and service provider with a team of over 100 talents based in EMEA, Americas and Asia-Pacific.
“In 2017, selecting the top achievers was by no means a small feat,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “In fact, we had the toughest time in years because so many entrepreneurs had crossed significant milestones so early in the European tech ecosystem. But after much thought, rigorous contemplation and discussion, we narrowed our list down from hundreds of candidates from across Europe to the Top 100 Winners. We believe SpotMe embodies the vision, drive and innovation that define a successful entrepreneurial venture. SpotMe should be proud of its accomplishment, as the competition was very strong.”
Red Herring’s editorial staff evaluated the companies on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technological innovation, management quality, overall business strategy and market penetration.
Following SpotMe’s well-deserved win, they are then invited to showcase their company to the US market at the Top 100 North America event in June and later compete internationally for the Top 100 Global in November. Red Herring is dedicated to following SpotMe’s path to further success and innovation.
