Best Tech Startup (Boston) | The Learning Corp's award winning product, Constant Therapy is helping revolutionize the therapy experience for tens of thousands of patients who are recovering from strokes, traumatic brain injuries or other neurological disorders.

Best Tech Startup (Philadelphia) | Everyone at MilkCrate is dedicated to advancing our clients' missions by building them incredible engaging mobile apps within their budget. Our company has grown from an early stage startup by seeking out ways to be more impactful and better serve customers - all while building a team and company culture where learning and impact are valued above all.

Best Tech Startup (NYC) | LeafLink is the largest wholesale marketplace for the cannabis industry with over $600MM in annualized revenue moving through its many verticals. They allow 600+ brands and over 2,100 retailers to create efficiencies with its custom-built cannabis commerce platform, including inventory management, streamlined ordering processes, and CRM capabilities. Leaflink boasts more than 40+ employees from top schools (Cornell, Georgetown, etc) and top tech companies (Ebay, Yelp), who lead their growing team.

Best Tech Manager (Boston) | Pooja Panse is a hands-on leader dedicated to her team members’ success. She regularly gives feedback and encourages individuals to step outside of their comfort zones whether it is driving project planning, doing design work or giving presentations.

Best Tech Work Culture (Toronto) | Company Culture thrives at WorkTango. Each day begins with the Daily Tango, where the team aligns, shares their progress from the previous day and their focus for the current day. We include a Daily Recognition moment to say thank you to our passionate employees. On Friday evenings, the team enjoys a Friday Social, getting to know each other and celebrating work well done.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Chicago) | Brad’s Deals publicly celebrates our women employees to attract more female tech talent, most visibly in the literature about the Women’s Tech Accelerator. Human resources leverages organizations like Tech Ladies and Noirefy for hiring and recruitment. We also support the annual Chicago Women in Tech Event event as one of their sponsors.

Best Tech Work Culture (Boston) | Curriculum Associates, an educational technology company on a mission to make classrooms better places, focuses heavily on its tech team’s growth and well-being.

Best Tech Manager (Boston) | Gina's greatest strength as Chief of Product for Ovia Health is that she knows the women and families who use our apps better than anyone. When Ovia launched its first app, Ovia Fertility, Gina spent countless hours and days interviewing women who were pregnant or trying to conceive. Women in her life, women in her friends' lives, women who were brave enough to answer a Craigslist ad: if you were pregnant or trying to get pregnant in the Greater Boston Area at that time, chances are, you talked to Gina. This is because the business of women's health is so personal to her: she cares deeply about supporting women and families at home, in the workplace, and beyond. She's a user of Ovia's three apps herself, using Ovia Fertility, Ovia Pregnancy, and Ovia Parenting on her own path to parenthood with her two daughters, Hazel and Quentin.

Best Tech Startup (Orange County) | Blast makes hard things easy and boring things fun by helping gamers micro-earn and micro-save money in the background of their favorite games. Blast has brought the gaming community closer to the company's goal of educating and accelerating savings for everyone – simply by doing what they already love to do! Blast’s goal is to make savings so exciting and rewarding that more people will be encouraged to start saving early.

Best Tech Startup (Chicago) | ShoppingGives exists to create social impact with every purchase, having built a community of retailers and nonprofits that give back to one another through their customers and supporters. The community is created through two unique technologies: an intuitive online fundraising platform and our newest technology, Change CommerceⓇ; this technology solves three core problems facing retailers today: (1) loyalty and customer engagement, (2) creating an impact through corporate social responsibility, and (3) finding a value-add platform that enhances retailers’ ability to compete with Amazon.

Best Tech Manager (Silicon Valley) | Eugene IS the company culture. He lives and breathes it. It's almost hard to explain in words just how much Eugene has done for the company, its culture and its employees. He knows everyone's wive's/husband's names and checks in regularly not just about work, but about personal life, whether the person is a high level executive or an intern. He makes sure there are team building events, that everyone is happy within their teams, and no one is left behind by weekly check ins with the HR and Administration teams.

Best Tech Work Culture (San Francisco) | At Shopkick, employees from all teams have potential to be extraordinary. Upon that foundation they’ve built a culture of innovation, encouraging participation and boosting creative confidence. They’ve made it a priority to foster an environment where their employees come to work knowing they can make an impact.

Best Tech Work Culture (Silicon Valley) | Here at BitGo, we are present in our work - we take pride in elegant and polished solutions. And we remember that results are only one facet of our work; we measure ourselves by our process, and we commit to continual improvement of those processes, absorbing any and all feedback along the way. We are dedicated to success, and we embrace our personal responsibility in achieving it.

Best Workplace for Diversity (Orange County) | At Restaurant365, we leave all channels open for the recruiting process regardless of ethnic background and, ultimately, hiring decisions are determined by skill set and qualifications.Our human resources department actively works to create an workplace that promotes a personal and self-building environment. We do lots of different company events from luncheons to team building opportunities to prizes and giveaways … if you’re a self-starter at Restaurant365, you’ll succeed.

Best Tech Startup (Philadelphia) | One of NeuroFlow's core company values is "have a healthy disregard for the impossible". They are disrupting the health care space, adding immense social value, and delivering great experiences to their users. The company was founded on the belief that owning your own data can drive needed behavioral change. As such, Neuroflow will help users gather and analyze data from any source they can - from cutting edge wearables in body monitoring to encouraging habit-forming self-reporting.

Best Tech Work Culture (Toronto) | Art & Science is a digital agency whose brand and name are born from the belief that art and science are not opposite ends of a spectrum but are rather two sides of the same coin. We say that our designers are as analytical as our developers and our developers as creative as our designers. We have a number of “rules” that are laid out in our company philosophy that informs our company culture, and how we approach all our work: Utilization, Education Fund, Creating Forums for Expressions, Celebrating our Team, and It’s Good for Business.

Best Tech Manager (Silicon Valley) | Claudia promotes career growth by listening to her team and allowing them to explore different aspects of design including project management, design systems, motion design. When the team first came together, we all did a career compass workshop to discover each others strengths, interests and areas for improvement.

Best Tech Startup (Chicago) | YCharts’ vision is to democratize investment research under the belief that it shouldn’t require a PhD, nor a large budget for research tools & reports to make smart investment decisions.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Washington DC) | Securiport is a top-tier global leader in intelligent border management and civil aviation security solutions with more than 50 locations worldwide. We exude and place priority on hiring and maintaining diverse talent from all over the world and this is relevant in all our business best practices. In fact, our CEO is from Argentina and most of our executive staff is of international flair including our software and hardware engineers and developers. We infuse cultural competencies into the hiring process and network within a diverse community. We integrate diversity into employment interviewing and hiring at the more technical level as well.

Best Tech Work Culture (Los Angeles) | At SnackNation we have environment in which employees are empowered to entrepreneurial in their roles, regardless of whether they’re an executive, manager, or individual contributor. All ideas are judged on their merits, and team members are encouraged to create solutions – campaigns, programs, or even whole departments – that didn’t previously exist.

Best Tech Manager (Orange County) | Mikko inspires a positive work culture, in which employees are encouraged to voice our ideas and cultivate a close-knit, friendly work environment. He acts as a knowledgeable resource to every employee and will help with input on projects he is not directly working on. From working through problems to discussing methodologies and project architectures, Mikko is always reliable and ready to walk through a challenge with anyone on the team.

Best Tech Manager (Boston) | Gwen engages with the entire upstream and downstream teams outside of UX and works with PM, ENG, and others to foster relationships that build influence and impact.

Best Tech Work Culture (Los Angeles) | The main reaction people have when visiting the MetaX office in Santa Monica, California is one of awe at the amazing work culture that can be sensed just by walking through the door. Upon entering, one is greeted by an open floor layout of a ping pong table, desks, and meeting rooms separated by glass walls covered in expo marker ideas, algorithms, and developer code.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Chicago) | As a leader in the mobile workforce space, we take the responsibility of creating diversity in other companies just as seriously as we do in creating a diverse workforce in our own. Hiring the best person for the job is an absolute must, and we find value in searching far and wide for top talent to ensure a successful and diverse workforce.

Best Tech Startup (Chicago) | After becoming the 2009 Northwestern University Venture Challenge champion, NuCurrent has gone on to change the way that people interact with electronics (e.g. mobile phones, wearables, IoT, cars), by removing the power cord. As engineers and product managers look to build in wireless power capabilities into their products (from mobile phones, wearables, IoT to cars), they’re continuing to turn to NuCurrent because we provide certainty and clarity on getting their products to market with superior wireless power performance, faster time-to-market, and cost-effectively. We not only help customers get their wireless power-enabled products to market quickly but win in their markets by giving them a competitive advantage in wireless power.

Best Tech Startup (NYC) | After uncovering a need for mobile workers that lies between crammed coffee shops and the sky-high price tag associated with big name co-working giants, KettleSpace leverages underutilized hospitality space in the NYC market, KettleSpace by providing affordable membership-based workspace solutions for freelancers, creatives, and budding entrepreneurs, while providing a new, profit-rich revenue stream to restaurant owners and leading hospitality partners.

Best Tech Work Culture (Boston) | What makes LevelUp’s culture exceptional, and its employees inspired, is the passion by which everyone at the office operates: They have high expectations and trust each other to bring the best out of everyone.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Orange County) | Brandify is and will always be the voice, pulse and work of one diverse and dynamic spirit. This can be seen within the surveys we run, customizable working arrangements we create, platforms we utilize and explorative sessions “brain dates” we implement and share with one another. At Brandify we believe in celebrating the differences of our ideas, influences and needs by utilizing tools and resources that cohesively bring us closer together.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Los Angeles) | Creating a diverse workplace is multifaceted. We’ve implemented ways to encourage diversity of thought & empower team members to come up with alternative ways of doing things. We also survey employees on a quarterly basis to ensure that we are keeping our finger on the pulse and inspire diversity through anonymity for those who don’t feel comfortable speaking up on company practices.

Best Tech Work Culture (Philadelphia) | Some might describe the GrayHair culture as “quirky”, and they would still take that as the highest compliment! They are allergic to corporate bureaucracy, and are not afraid to work hard, play hard and fall hard, then get back up again and have a few good laughs along the way.

Best Tech Manager (Silicon Valley) | Dani created the Engineer LifeCycle project at Mercari that looks into each engineer's career goals and creates a concrete plan to make it happen by providing special support to individuals.

Best Tech Startup (Boston) | botkeeper offers a breakthrough solution to an age-old problem by automating bookkeeping tasks. The result: Round-the-clock and virtual accounting services for half the cost.

Best Tech Startup (NYC) |In a a matter of months, Timehop has leveraged a social media platform into a world-class ad tech product - Nimbus - that performs better than most of its competitors. The team created a Supply-Side Platform to deliver quality advertising content to mobile publishers at a value greater than anything in the marketplace.

Best Tech Work Culture (San Francisco) |As a core part of our culture, we emphasize seeking opportunities to advance our technical infrastructure for continuous innovation. This includes upgrading existing framework, adding new tools, or redesigning a module or component for better performance and scale.

Best Tech Startup (Chicago) | RhinoDox is a cloud-based, end-to-end Intelligent Content Management platform for Manufacturing companies aimed at helping front-and-mid-office teams move content into a digital world so that it is safely stored, easily found and quickly integrated into their daily processes. We focus on reducing the time these teams spend searching for and finding documents so they can spend more time growing revenue.

Best Work Culture (Orange County) | As media consumption shifts from traditional linear viewing to a premium, on-demand experience, our users' appetites for a fast and innovative platform continually increases. We incentivize our teams to stay cutting edge and stay up to par with the big players in the game like Netflix and Hulu. Our teams are incentivized with company-sponsored team events like mixers and team-building events. We also celebrate large launches with company-sponsored meals. Our culture has always been very flexible in terms of hours of operation and vacation which has naturally incentivized the team produce when it works for them.

Best Tech Startup (Chicago) | vPeer is first-to-market with a high-quality, virtual peer-to-peer mentoring platform. Our Match-Meet-Mentor process is evidence-based, and initial users say it is fun!

Best Tech Manager (San Francisco) | When looking at prospective candidates the #1 thing Ilan looks when interviewing is that they are a "nice, good and genuine person". Ilan cares more them being a nice, pleasant person to work with because he wants everyone to work together harmoniously.

Best Tech Startup (Washington DC) | MetiStream is passionate about innovation and creativity and is always pushing the boundaries of technology. As a healthcare analytics company using the bleeding edge of AI and ML techniques, we help healthcare organizations maximize the use of their data assets to improve patient outcomes, decrease risks and accelerate healthcare discoveries. Through our product, Ember, we can integrate all healthcare data types, from clinical, claims, and genomics, and provide end-to-end search, analysis, and prediction. Deeply engaged and connected with the big data community, we are also the Founders and organizers of the Washington DC Area Apache Spark Interactive and AI and Big Data Healthcare Meetups with ~5000 members.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Toronto) | Diversity is a goal Rubikloud prides itself on achieving; our senior leadership team sets an example by achieving a 50% women executive ratio and spans diverse backgrounds and experience. Our diverse teams fill different gaps in different ways - when we find the right “fit” we have to have that person because of who they are and what they bring to the table in regards to skills, experience, fit, talent, stamina, etc. It’s Rubikloud’s belief that, when building a team of the “collective best” people to create a high potential team, then diversity has to be integral to that strategy to fill all the gaps by thinkers who together, use all sides of the brain and bring diverse backgrounds & life experiences that inform their perspectives.

Best Tech Manager (Chicago) | Lucky enough to be a leader of a rapidly growing organization like BenchPrep, Nickolay Schwarz, Chief Technology Officer, understands the importance of providing ongoing opportunities for his team to grow, ensuring they have the right resources to reach their goals. He also recognizes the significance of encouraging growth regardless of failures along the way, leveraging any mistakes as coaching opportunities.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Chicago) | Digital Authority Partners brings next-gen digital transformation to healthcare, financial services and government organizations. Through bold insights and innovative problem solving, we help these organizations reimagine their business and adapt for the Digital Age. Innovation lies at the core of DAP — from how we approach problems to how we hire. We go beyond the resume to find employees that are as diverse in their thinking as they are in their backgrounds, all with the singular goal of building a world-class team that delivers game-changing solutions for our clients. To us, diversity is more than race, gender or age. It’s about different backgrounds. Different skills. Different ways of solving problems. It’s about hiring people who don’t necessarily think or act like us, but who have the passion, potential and drive to help our company think differently, and deliver exceptional results.

Best Tech Manager (NYC) | Tom Johnell has made “people management” a thing, by investing in defining what it means to excel in managing people at Handy, and measuring against that. He has helped Handy build ‘upward’ feedback into our quarterly 1:1s and get detailed feedback on all of the managers at the company.

Best Tech Manager (Los Angeles) | Both hands-on and strategic, Sophy's management style is impeccable; She prefers seeing one of her developers fail & find a better solution rather than going for the easy way out. She prioritizes high-functional feature-thinking and bright code-writing over rapidness, and shares each and every decision (including who to accept into the team & who not to) with her WHOLE team.

Best Tech Startup (Los Angeles) | Honey automates the process of searching for discounts online that actually work. The pain of tirelessly surfing the internet for coupons that are probably expired or don’t work anymore has never truly been addressed before from a consumer standpoint. Honey utilizes user data to figure out where these coupons are and then automatically applies them during the checkout process so that our consumers don’t have to.

Best Tech Work Culture (Orange County) | The Vincit culture is driven by two things: happiness of employees and happiness of clients. By creating an environment where “Mondays don’t suck” and acting with the philosophy “do as you would” the employees have the power to make decisions regarding their work and are happier because of it. They empower employees to work with autonomy and flexibility while being supported by the company with the concept of Leadership as a Service.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (NYC) | Pager's success is based on hiring people according to five core values: Brave leaders, Work with Grit, Have Heart, Always Think and Deliver Results. Pager hires according to these values to simply find the best people for the job whose personal values align to their mission. Their high standard for hiring has resulted in an employee base representing 22 nationalities and a 55/45 Female/Male ratio.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Silicon Valley) | We take equal input from anyone and everyone. There is complete transparency with the administration, and administrators often look to employees for new, innovative ideas. Everyone at AutoGrid is here for a reason, and one of the things that makes AutoGrid great is that all of its employees trust in one another, regardless of where they came from or how long they’ve been in the office. If there is one phrase that sums up the ideation and execution process of AutoGrid it is: Diverse minds create the best products.

Best Tech Manager (Los Angeles) | He is very hands on and nothing is too little of a task for him. He has worked tirelessly to build out hiring plans, recruiting efforts, onboarding, career development plans etc. Even with his large workload he still manages to be a pleasant person to work with and brings a great energy to the team.

Best Tech Startup (Orange County) | Reinventing the way shoppers’ behave, retailers operate, and brands collect in-store shopper insights, AWM Smart Shelf lights up the retail shelf with engaging digital displays that change and add more detail as the shopper moves closer and closer to the product. AWM Smart Shelf is the first ever company to bring custom digital retail display systems, automated inventory intelligence, retail data capture & analytics, consumer recognition, and ad exchange all to one single eco-system. The products AWM Smart Shelf offers are not only a disruption in the retail space, but in the tech world as a whole.

Best Tech Startup (Boston) | Notarize fully embraces and celebrates the entrepreneurial spirit, building a diverse team with backgrounds in tech start-ups, engineering academia, public policy and real estate.

Best Workplace for Diversity (Orange County) | Jabil Inc is a global company which promotes and understand the added value of diversity and inclusion. In an industry dominated by man, Jabil is proud to present a year over year growth of women representation in manufacturing, management and support roles. Our engineering teams consist a mix if genders, nationalities and religions. Those teams are the main reason why Jabil Inc is considered as one the global leaders in manufacturing automation, especially for custom applications.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (NYC) | At StreetEasy, our employees are our greatest asset. We are working hard to build and maintain a culture of equity and belonging, where everyone can feel like they belong and have the support and resources to do the best work of their careers.

Best Tech Startup (Toronto) | Vena Solutions was founded 7 years ago by 3 guys in a coffee shop who recognized that Excel was pervasively used by medium and large businesses to do financial planning and analysis but had severe limitations when it came to collaboration, data integrity, auditability and the data volumes large companies generate. The initial product prototype connected Excel to a database in the cloud so that Excel becomes a window onto your financial data but the data is securely stored online

Best Tech Manager (Boston) | David Safaii is CEO of Trilio, the Massachusetts-based data protection company that’s taking on the backup paradigm. David joined Trilio in 2014 as the company’s first non-founding team member and has grown the company from a fledgling start-up to a venture-backed, rapidly growing cloud infrastructure-as-a-service company. In only a couple of years, David secured the resources to develop and productize what started as an open source project, brought the new solution to market, quickly secured a handful of key customers, and locked down a series A funding round to continue the company’s growth. Through David’s leadership, Trilio has since been on a rapid growth trajectory (of both customers and employees), with even more accomplishments to come. Throughout all these milestones, Trilio remains a relatively lean company in an industry filled with heavily funded startups and weighty enterprise organizations. David uses this as an opportunity to take an active role in managing both his direct reports, and the development of the company as a whole.

Best Tech Startup (Silicon Valley)|LeafLink currently processes an estimated 9% of all legal cannabis wholesale orders in the US. Additionally, the company focuses on developing a close-knit, collaborative corporate culture in many ways. Every month the company presents an “AcoLLade” to someone who exemplifies one of their core values (on their careers page). The company also takes a team trip to one of the states they operate in for hitting an annual company goal. The company is currently planning one of these outings for hitting a $500M sales goal. LeafLink also has a program called LeafLinkUp where employees are paired across their offices nationally to have a 30 min phone chat to get to know each other better.

Best Tech Startup (Washington DC) | Best Tech Startup (Washington DC) | Adlumin provides the first ever cloud-native SIEM solution with the capability to monitor and defend customer networks locally, in the cloud, and across the globe. Using our cloud-native approach Adlumin provides the most cost-efficient SIEM on the planet, making it an attainable solution for almost any organization small, medium, or large. Using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Adlumin has built a SIEM platform that writes its own rules, customers don’t need to struggle to write magical queries or SIEM rules to get the technology to work for them. Using advanced data science models Adlumin provides a hand’s free SIEM platform, no PHD required. Using the power of the cloud Adlumin is seamless to integrate into the customers environment typically taking about 20 minutes to deploy and integrate. The first ever SIEM solution that is cost-effective, easy to use, and easy to integrate our robust platform provides unmatched security that defends your network from the security perimeter to the Dark Web.

Best Tech Work Culture (Toronto) | Localcoin provides an open-space work environment that allows their employees to collaborate on ideas and work together in a free setting. With food provided every day, along with complimentary coffee and drinks to recharge, Localcoin accommodates their employees with the necessary supplies for a successful day. In addition, the directors are very hands-on with their employees, providing guidance whenever necessary as well as the freedom to pursue projects without micro-management.

Best Tech Startup (Los Angeles) | Divergent 3D is a technology development and licensing company that utilizes 3D metal printing to revolutionize manufacturing for a crowded planet—from automotive to aerospace and other engineering industries. We want to enable small teams to become a car company by eliminating capital intensity in automotive manufacturing.

Best Tech Work Culture (Chicago) | The cleverbridge executive and management team designed a culture of empowerment which built off the successful organizational values, attitudes and ground rules that have been in place since the founding of the company.

Best Tech Work Culture (Boston) | AppNeta truly is one of the Best Tech Work Cultures, and it all stems from our core values -- transparency, performance, and trust.

Best Tech Startup (Los Angeles) | AuditBoard is the first platform built upon the latest web technology and integrated with leading platforms like Microsoft Power BI, LucidChart, and the Microsoft Office Suite. The platform is powerful, intuitive, and easy to use, which is why companies such as Lululemon, Intel, Express Scripts, Lionsgate, Activision, Tripadvisor, and Pandora have adopted our solutions, and also why companies have continued to switch off other platforms.

Best Tech Startup (Boston) | Wasabi, the hot cloud storage start-up, is sizzling as it represents what the next generation of cloud storage looks like.

Best Tech Manager (Philadelphia) | James empowers the team by allowing people to make decisions, not micromanaging, and encouraging people to do their best. Collaboration is also encouraged. James speaks to each person regularly, to check on project and personal progress. He publicly expresses confidence in individual team members. Between regular team meetings and team events, James ensures that the team embraces collaboration on a regular basis.

Best Tech Work Culture (Los Angeles) | Our employees invest a lot in the work they do. We recognize that, and take a multi-faceted approach to rewards in an effort to ensure that all team members feel acknowledged and appreciated for the hard work they put in every day.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Toronto) | We strive to have an inclusive, open, and diverse culture. We hope to create a kind place to work; one in which everyone feels valued, free to speak their mind, and be who they are. We strive to invest in people first and give back where we can. We are dedicated to being a diverse and equal place of employment and for our people to support each other wherever and whenever possible. Klick is fortunate to be headquartered in one of the most diverse cities in the world and we take full advantage of it. Klick’s workforce is culturally diverse and always has been, and we love to celebrate it. Our people speak at least 18 different languages. Two of our three partners are 1st generation immigrants, and Klick is active in supporting employees who are applying for permanent resident or citizenship status.

Best Tech Manager (Boston) | Jay has nearly two decades of experience in the technology industry with a focus on high-growth markets. Throughout his career, he has developed product strategies and roadmaps tailored to meet the needs of customers of all sizes —from small businesses to the world’s largest enterprises.

Best Tech Manager (Orange County) | Tim Sullivan is dedicated to bettering the careers and personal lives of his team. He prioritizes learning and growth and ensures that his team has the proper tools to be more efficient and grow along with the tech industry. Tim is also a philanthropist who loves to give back to the community and sets an inspiring example for his team and colleagues.

Best Tech Startup (Toronto) | Shorcan requires top tech talent to operate on the cutting edge since their hybrid model allows traders to access the marketplace via voice or electronically. It is a known fact that cryptocurrency is tied tightly to technology so without seeking the best talent it would nearly be impossible to maintain competitive in the market. As a startup, it is vital to remain competitive by demonstrating cutting edge talent and understanding the technological needs of what the market requires especially since traders would have access to our marketplace electronically.