Best Tech Startup (San Francisco) | KeepTruckin began by offering truck drivers and fleet managers a free electronic logbook app to replace outdated and inconsistent industry standard paper logs. Now, KeepTruckin offers a full suite of tech solutions that work together to help fleets work more efficiently and safely while increasing profits.

Best Tech Work Culture (Silicon Valley) | Since its founding in 2005, Xactly has become the unquestioned leader in the SPM space by helping businesses of all sizes - from SMBs to the Fortune 1000 - realize the value of eliminating error-prone processes and manual spreadsheets by automating incentive compensation practices.

Best Tech Startup (San Francisco) | OverOps is disrupting IT operations and the software delivery supply chain by equipping development and DevOps teams with unprecedented insight into the functional quality of applications to help them ensure software reliability and avoid costly downtime.

Best Tech Startup (Toronto) | DNAstack is a software company that develops cutting-edge technologies that help scientists discover and treat the causes of genetic diseases. Its main product, the Canadian Genomics Cloud, is an integrated platform to manage, analyze and share genome sequence and clinical data. This public cloud computing platform, the first of its kind in Canada, gives every scientist in the country unfettered access to award-winning technology empowering precision medicine and other applications in genome research. By building infrastructure that better shares data, tools, and compute resources nationally, we stand to vastly increase the value of each genome sequenced and the power for those data to drive new insights that will help improve and save the lives of people affected by genetic diseases.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Chicago) | Backstop prides itself in its diversity and inclusion initiatives. FinTech has long been an industry in which diversity is a challenge. To counteract this trend and encourage equality across the industry, Backstop has implemented a variety of programs and initiatives including internal groups such as the Diversity Group and Women in Tech (WIT), which aim to not only provide a safe space to network for everyone, but also to attract diverse talent.

Best Tech Work Culture (Los Angeles) | To ensure a good cohesion in the entire engineering department, once a week we all have lunch together and split into random groups of 4/5 people. The company also has an extensive on boarding program to ensure any newcomers get all that they need and team up with a "buddy" who is someone out of their own department to ensure that they are really nicely integrated into the company.

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) | Chris always makes himself accessible to the team and genuinely cares about their happiness and career growth. He has crafted a clear and understandable framework outlining guidelines to empower Software Engineers to improve and succeed on three aspects, Technical, Execution and Leadership. He communicates the direction for team’s projects and continually support the progress with meeting and 1-1’s, yet gives freedom to his team members to make their own decisions on how to get to the end goal.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Washington DC) | Our embodiment of employee diversity and inclusion draws on Hustle's core values: Authenticity: We strive to create an inclusive space where all staff can bring their full, authentic selves to work and thrive at Hustle. Empowerment: We are accountable for ensuring that our teammates are engaged and empowered to make the decisions, policies, and practices that create an inclusive and positive workplace. Impact: We believe that a workforce with a diverse set of backgrounds is essential to drive the impact we seek to create in the world through the decisions we make, the product we build, and the way we approach our partnerships. Respect: At Hustle, we appreciate and celebrate each teammate's unique way of being in the world. We embody inclusivity through respect: being proactive, thoughtful, and quick to address issues that arise over time.

Best TeBest Tech Startup (NYC) |Imbrex is founded on the principle that all stakeholders in the real estate industry should be in control of their proprietary data, and the belief that maintaining individual ownership. To Imbrex, decentralizing access is the path to a truly global network in listing and transacting real estate.ch Startup (NYC) |Imbrex is founded on the principle that all stakeholders in the real estate industry should be in control of their proprietary data, and the belief that maintaining individual ownership, while decentralizing access is the path to a truly global network in listing and transacting real estate.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (NYC) | At Hustle, diversity and Inclusion matters. It matters in the world. It matters to Hustle’s clients and partners. It matters at Hustle. Their team engages in all their work with respect for one another, towards a shared purpose, maximizing Hustle's impact on society.

Best Tech Startup (Los Angeles) | Described as the ‘Uber’ for content, Social Native is making high-quality custom content available to all brands with the click of a button. By paying talented consumers, globally, to create content for the brands they love, Social Native is bridging the gap between content supply and demand to create unparalleled efficiency and scale in the creative industry.

Best Tech Work Culture (Chicago) | Having a fun, dynamic company culture is one of our top priorities. With offsites, continuing education opportunities, volunteering events, quarterly social events, and snacks (so many snacks!) we're always investing in our team. This dedication to culture allows us to attract and retain top talent in the digital industry.

Best Tech Manager (Chicago) |CTO Perry Moutzouros’ top focus at Oranj is providing a great team culture, as well as promoting career growth. He prides himself on his ability to evaluate talent that doesn’t fit in a box, and while each engineer is originally hired to fill a specific role, Perry also realizes that roles change as fast as technology and encourages taking on new roles to promote growth – not just technical growth as programmers, but also social and professional growth as humans and leaders.

Best Tech Work Culture (Silicon Valley) | Velodyne LiDAR provides extensive training programs to our employees so they can always be on top of their game in LiDAR technology and our products. We also provide training for the engineers of the future at different organizations such as SAE International and RoboNation. We have an annual picnic for the whole company and their families, surprise ice-cream events, and Wednesday coffee vans. There is always something happening each week to celebrate how much we appreciate each and every one of our employees. Velodyne LiDAR knows that the marketplace needs innovative LiDAR sensors. For more than a decade, we have designed and produced a wide range of LiDAR sensors, including the Puck, Ultra Puck and VLS-128. These rely on a 3D vision system that uses lasers to fully ‘see’ the surrounding environment. To date, the company’s sensors have been installed in thousands of autonomous vehicles around the world, traveling millions of real-world miles. LiDAR sensors are the eyes for automation – and we invented them.

Best Tech Startup (Los Angeles) | LeafLink, the largest wholesale marketplace for the cannabis industry, has over $600MM in annualized revenue moving through its many verticals, allowing 600+ brands and over 2,100 retailers to create efficiencies with its custom-built cannabis commerce platform, with inventory management, streamlined ordering processes, and CRM capabilities.

Best Tech Startup (Philadelphia) | Guest-Rm is innovative and disruptive by being the first of its kind to focus on a network of friends and friends of friends; encouraging travel in a safe and cost effective way to inspire users to travel and explore the world.

Best Tech Startup (Toronto) | DarwinAI is one of the leading Artificial Intelligence startups in Canada. Founded by leading academics at the University of Waterloo, our technology leverages AI itself to generate highly optimized deep neural networks without sacrificing functional accuracy. Moreover, this IP enables ‘explainable’ deep learning – the ability to understand why a neural network reaches the conclusions it does (critical in highly regulated industries).

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Chicago) | Even though, we’d like to think we are doing ‘ok’ on the diversity front (48% girl power!), we recognize that we are FAR from perfect and there is so much more we can do. Therefore, employees initiated the creation of a Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Taskforce with sub-committees responsible for making strides in the areas of hiring, HR policy, education and awareness, office environment as well as focusing on making the products we build more accessible to ALL users!

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 (Washington DC) | Career Growth is personal. Rochelle takes an active interest in all employees personal development and encourages them to embrace their own career development. She individually works with employees on becoming better at enhancing their strengths and skills. Rochelle advocates for our employees to apply to any position within the organization. She uses it as an opportunity to understand their interests while providing them with adequate coaching and feedback. She believes in the importance of developing employees so they can be successful both at and beyond mHelpDesk.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (San Francisco) | Mapbox strives to embed Diversity & Inclusion focused best practices into workflows across their organization. They believe this strategic outlook yields better hiring outcomes and inclusion effectiveness.

Best Tech Startup (NYC) |Health Recovery Solutions (HRS) was founded in 2012 by CEO, Jarrett Bauer following his grandmother’s readmission to the hospital for heart failure, due to a lack of access and tools at hand including clinician supervision, caregiver support and personal care. Following this, Jarrett along with his co-founders, mobilized the industry’s top doctors, nurses, developers and engineers to found HRS, a software company, focused on reducing readmissions and increasing patient engagement through the integration of clinical and caregiver support.

Best Tech Work Culture (Washington DC) | We’re a mission-driven company that brings cutting-edge technology and the latest in big data and analytics to the most challenging problems facing our military and government today. RII has invested in a brand-new, state-of-the-art office, which was featured in DC Inno’s Office Envy in late 2016. Innovation isn't just in our name, it's in our blood. Our new space includes treadmill desks, a TV lounge, built-in work booths, and a huge new engineering test lab with a 14-foot media wall.

Best Tech Work Culture (NYC) | Jakt is a digital product and innovation studio dedicated to making a positive impact in the world. They aim to affect the lives of 100 million people by 2027 through the innovative digital products they create. Jakt wants all employees to be proud of where they work, so our focus on positive impact flows into our everyday company culture.

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 Work Culture (Orange County) | Kareo has a team of engineers who love innovation, collaboration, and helping others. Our team hosts quarterly hackathons where engineers are encouraged to use new technologies, solve complex problems, and work with their teammates to innovate something that they think needs work. As a team we promote new ideas by allowing engineers of any level to bring ideas to the table - whether that be product ideas, solutions, or new technologies they think we should be using.

Best Workplace for Diversity (Orange County) | We are a global brand with a multinational team of 12 awesome employees and advisers located in the U.S., New Zealand, Israel, Belgium, and India. Founded by women and employing team members from various races, religions, ethnicity and backgrounds, our tech startup provides the best workplace for diversity. Our Founder, Saritta Hines entered the world of technology more than 13 years ago, in a day and age where she was often the only woman in the room. Further, she was often the only Black woman in the room for much of her career. We are seeing this trend shift as the field of technology becomes more diverse and TrustaBit is leading the charge!

Best Tech Manager (Chicago) | He has inspired motivation from his highest management down. Departmental goals are always reviewed in a weekly and monthly basis. Vivek is always the first in and the last one out of the office. He is a hands-on teacher which creates an open door policy, being a well-versed individual in most areas of business you can turn to him for guidance. He pushes himself harder than anyone else which creates that great mentorship quality.

Best Tech Work Culture (Washington DC) | We promote technical creativity by having whiteboards on every vertical surface in our office. Any team member can write up their ideas on them, and we can have impromptu discussions and brainstorming based on them. We have a culture of open discussions and people on product X suggesting ideas for people on product Y without any need for formal approvals.

Best Tech Work Culture (Philadelphia) | FreedomPay not only fosters collaboration and learning internally but encourages employees to stay ahead of the curve on industry best practices and market trends. Employees can attend workshops and continuing education classes as well as attain the latest technology and certifications. FreedomPay acts on the mentality that they are always learning and growing so they can be the best for their clients. The company has the utmost respect and appreciation for their employees and treats them as such.

Best Work Culture (Orange County) | We realize that people empower technology and that our clients hire us for the experience of working with our team. We highlight team successes at a monthly all-hands meeting and in a weekly internal newsletter. We provide extra PTO and VTO days, prizes, gift cards, company swag, company outings, catered lunches, Player of the Month program, and a gamified poker chip rewards system. We have a strong remote-work policy that leverages our technology tools and enables a better work-life balance.

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 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 Tech Manager (NYC) | When thinking about organizational personality, Randy Jimenez possesses a rare willingness and push towards diversity and collaboration that comes from the top down. As the CTO and Co-Founder at Ollie, Randy Jimenez seems similar to most developers who you’d met – and while he doesn't like to be in the spotlight, is deserving of a platform to brag about the amazing tech team he's built.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Boston) | Bullhorn is absolutely committed to prioritizing diversity in its hiring processes and inclusion in its employee culture across its 800 employees in the U.S., UK, Canada, India, Australia, Germany, and the Netherlands. Bullhorn's strides in creating a diverse workplace that puts it at the leading edge of all Boston tech companies, with 50% of its 2017 hires being diverse. 46% of development/IT hires were diverse in 2017, which is remarkable considering the notorious insularity of dev/IT roles.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Silicon Valley) | Reltio offers many perks that employees would normally only find at large technology companies and makes having fun part of the company’s daily work, incorporating competitions on learning, contests, lunch of the month, picnics, events and family inclusion. Flexible working hours, open floor workplaces and the ability to work from home with latest collaboration technologies creates the perfect environment for innovation and growth. To promote technical creativity, Reltio looks for talent with DNA containing a mix of innovation, enthusiasm, curiosity, and an entrepreneurial spirit to go with the skills related to job function. These Reltio team members can turbo charge their professional growth in an environment that exposes them to not just their regular day job, but what it takes to start and grow a business from the ground up. Not only meeting but exceeding customer expectations is of the utmost importance, and Reltio is constantly trying new and creative ways to solve problems and deliver on what customers need.

Best Tech Workplace For Diversity (Los Angeles) | Evite fosters a best-in-class environment in which all employees can excel, regardless of gender, race or belief. While Evite does not set a specific quota for the diversity mix for any team or the company overall, Evite's hiring process strives to find the best candidate possible and that is achieved by its unique hiring criteria. Candidates are evaluated based on three core measures: required capabilities, energy accretive and real output. By looking at each candidate holistically, Evite boasts a leadership team comprised of 54% women, and across the organization, women account for 55% of all employees. Diversity and inclusion play a critical role in employee development. Whether it be through our monthly "Lunch and Learn" highlighting International Women’s Day, guest speakers from various backgrounds or a men's bake off, embracing and celebrating diversity is a key reason for Evite's growth.

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 Work Culture (Philadelphia) | Bresslergroup regularly recognizes hard work through gifts, team outings, group social events, and company-sanctioned extracurricular clubs. They also provide regular opportunities to volunteer in the Philadelphia community. There is a company culture committee that any employee can join to help shape day-to-day life at the company.

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 (NYC) | Having a workforce that is almost 50% female including a female Founder and CEO is rare in tech, Pefin is committed to building a team inclusive of the LGBT community You can see this in action, as the company has have over 11 ethnicities and countries represented among the 30 team crew.

Best Tech Work Culture (NYC) | TAPAD makes Hackathons come to life, with their most recent one on cutting their carbon footprint. They test and experiment with cutting edge tools and open-source software (GCP, Flink, AutoML, etc.), and encourage innovation upwards from engineering/data science up rather than from the top down.

Best Tech Startup (Philadelphia) | In less than 4 years and with fewer than 40 employees, HealthVerity has demonstrated its success by deploying its platform in 17 of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies, 3 of the top 5 insurance payers and 4 of the top 5 strategy consulting firms. Their blue chip clientele confirms that HealthVerity is taking the market by storm by delivering a differentiated and highly valued solution.

Best Tech Startup (Chicago) | Halo is America’s first independent, multi-issuer technology platform for Structured Notes. Halo is quickly becoming one of the world’s largest Structured Note platforms due to its ownership of the Structured Note technology ecosystem, being the first to democratize the product, and ultimately, make the product extremely more efficient forIssuers and Investors alike.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (NYC) | Since its inception, VirtualHealth has been dedicated to nurturing an employee-centric culture that places a high value on diversity. Notably, women comprise 50 percent of the company’s leadership team and 45 percent of its total employees. Based on Inc. magazine’s 2018 Best Workplaces employee survey, 90 percent of VirtualHealth’s female employees see professional growth and career development with the company. VirtualHealth was also listed as 2018 Best Place to Work in Healthcare by Modern Healthcare.

Best Tech Work Culture (Washington DC) | The environment at 540 is one where employees care about producing premium work using lean, innovative tech that disrupts the status quo. At 540 you will notice employees embodying one of their core values of always be learning. Through their recruiting process, it’s likely you will hear the hiring manager convey with gusto that it’s not what you know right now, rather what you can learn by Monday.

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 Startup (Silicon Valley) |Founded as a resource to help working mothers achieve work-life balance, Zūm was born out of an idea for better, more equitable future. Zūm’s CEO and co-founder, Ritu Narayan, is a working mother herself and faced a choice after moving to Silicon Valley: she juggled caring for her family and working a demanding career managing $1billion+ of eCommerce at eBay. Rather than sacrifice quality work or family time, Ritu founded a company to solve a major childcare issue parents face: safe, reliable transportation. Together, Ritu and her employees are on a mission to improve the lives of busy working moms through social innovation, transportation expertise and technology. Not only are they helping women (and men, too) safely and efficiently get their children from various places throughout the day, they are empowering parents to achieve their professional and personal goals while creating a wonderful life for their families. Not only does Zūm’s leadership team and employees have one foot in the future, but the company also employs forward-thinking drivers, or Zūmers. It’s creating jobs for parents and other professionals, like teachers, nurses, etc., who want a flexible schedule and to earn extra income. Ritu’s mission-based company is helping parents pursue their passions while keeping their kids engaged and is also offering unique and flexible career opportunities for people around the country. Finally, the service inspires a sense of independence for the children who use it, and helps them to pursue extracurricular opportunities that may have not been previously available due to logistics. In effect, Zūm is fostering the next generation of forward-thinking leaders as well.