Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Boston) | Payfactors is working hard to promote and encourage diversity of backgrounds and diversity of thought. We have grown our monthly "Women Talk Tech" lunches from a small group of 5 or 6 to a group of over 20 women in tech. It has been amazing to watch the program grow to include women of all ages and backgrounds, coming together to discuss the industry we all support.

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 (NYC) |Vydia is an Inc. 500 video technology company that empowers over 200,000 creators worldwide to sync, store, and secure their content. Behind Vydia’s innovative platform is a team of engineers, data scientists, product specialists and more dedicated to cultivating a diverse workforce.

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 (Orange County) | Teletrac Navman invests in their engineers. This investment ensures the developers are always up to date with the latest tech in the industry, benefitting both the company and individuals’ professional development. Unlike many other companies, Teletrac Navman encourages using the best tool for the job and is rarely bound by the status quo. Innovation is built into the culture, incentivization and performance structure and management supports the flow of free-form ideas to further that innovation.

Best Tech Work Culture (San Francisco) | The fundamentals of a great tech culture are baked into the essence of Zendrive as a company. Zendrive works on solving massive problems, and touches millions of lives every day with their mission to make roads safer with data and analytics. Every department supports this mission, but none more so than their Tech Team.

Best Tech Startup (Toronto) | Ritual saw significant opportunity to transform the restaurant industry and digitize local commerce, following in the footsteps of the way the retail industry was transformed. After seeing large companies, like Starbucks, heavily investing in their digital solutions, they knew there was opportunity to help local restaurants compete. While this opportunity is open to many industries including restaurants, health and beauty and other non-retail categories, Ritual Founder, Ray Reddy, determined that the right starting point was Quick Service Restaurants. Not only is it a trillion-dollar market globally, but there is no other vertical outside of quick service restaurants that people transact with on a daily basis.

Best Tech Work Culture (Boston) | Mendix developed a digital maturity assessment to guide their customers though a session that makes it easier to identify what applications they would like to build using the Mendix low-code platform. They consider all aspects of the team and organization with what they call the 4"ps" - people, process, platform and portfolio of applications.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (NYC) | MetTel believes that the best work comes from an open and supportive work environment— which is why employees stay with MetTel for years, and even decades—and feel a sense of loss when people choose to move to another career path. Many companies claim this, but with MetTel, it’s more than a claim, it’s a demonstrable value. Free-time is as respected as worktime, so weekends and holidays are viewed as just that: life time, not work time. MetTel employees decide what to do, and how to best do their jobs.

Best Tech Startup (Chicago) | Determined to create a positive well-balanced working environment, one where no one person was compromised, Amber made the risky decision to align her two passions; family and improving technology in the senior living industry. With her drive to change the perception of female executives in the technology industry, coupled with the need for change in the technology culture of senior living, Parasol Alliance was founded.

Best Tech Work Culture (Los Angeles) | Exemplified by the growing number of "Best Place to Work" accolades, Hawke Media promotes innovation, learning, independence and creativity. Employees are encouraged to continue their professional development, as Hawke will pay for classes, conferences and more.

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 Workplace for Diversity (Washington DC) | Ostendio has three founders - each one an immigrant or a minority founder (or both!), so diversity has always been important to the company right from the get-go. At Ostendio, we believe that what makes us different allows us to thrive, which is why we place such a big emphasis on building an inclusive environment.

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 Manager (Los Angeles) | With over 10 years of B2B and B2C custom software experience, RJ has developed noteworthy expertise in tech. Her impressive background working with esteemed companies such as Google, AB InBev, and DuPont coupled with her unique management style make her a beloved leader. RJ is a compassionate mentor, a fiercely efficient manager, and an incredible female role model. She directs her attention not just to senior leadership but also to junior employees. RJ takes the time to mold junior employees -- taking them under her wing to help them recognize their strengths and become the best versions of themselves.

Best Tech Manager (Toronto) | Yasmim, Director of DevOps Capital Markets at RBC was able to provide direction for the team in a remarkable way. She consistently meets with her team to discuss what she envisioned and makes each employee feel their opinion is important. She empowers her team to take our own approach in whatever way they saw fit to solve any issues. She enabled them to seek out problems and find solutions.

Best Tech Startup (Boston) | Airfox is on a mission is to extend critical financial services to billions of unbanked and underbanked people in emerging markets around the globe.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Toronto) | At Wattpad, we’ve long recognized that diversity is our strength. Our company culture, our teams, our ability to innovate, and ultimately our product, are all made stronger by the variety of perspectives, experiences, and voices that make up Wattpad. Wattpad’s commitment to diversity has been established since Day 1. The fact that we were founded by two people of colour (one of whom is an immigrant), in Canada (one of the most diverse countries in the world), has helped us maintain a more diverse perspective than most technology companies. In fact, one of our core values is #Inclusive. Today, we’re proud to say that a majority--56%--of Wattpad employees are women and for a more intersectional look at our team composition, we’re proud to say that People of Colour make up close to half (45%) of all Wattpad employees and 41% of our Leadership Team. Company-wide, 21% of Wattpad employees are Women of Colour, 15% are non-native English speakers, 8% identify as having a disability, 13% identify as LGBTQ+, and 3% are transgender.

Best Workplace for Diversity (San Francisco) | At Quizlet, they believe investing in a diverse workforce creates a strong and innovative community and gives them a competitive advantage. Their efforts start with measurement — being able to track at every stage of the candidate experience and understanding what is working and where they are falling short.

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 Workplace for Diversity (San Francisco) | TripActions is a diverse recruiting team, and are proud of diversity statistics. Individual Contributors - Male 57% Female 43% and Management - Male 53% Female 47%. They have won a variety of diversity awards - Comparably’s “Most Diverse” and #3 “Best Company to Work” 2018 - based on surveys of their employees and rate 4.7/5 rating on Glassdoor.

Best Tech Startup (Washington DC) | Amruta Inc provides data-driven insights and user-friendly software to improve revenue, profitability, safety, compliance and reputation for commercial and governmental clients, worldwide. We hire forward-thinking tech leaders who create data engineering, science and experience software to transform processes across industries. They collaborate with the client executives to implement solutions with a business realism. They enjoy complete freedom in creating leading-edge solutions. Our work environment includes flexible hours, telecommuting, and flexible meeting schedules & locations. Amruta Inc provides health, 401 k, immigration visa sponsorship, and other employee benefits that are comparable to large organizations.

Best Tech Startup (Orange County) | Yummi has taken an innovative approach to creating a food-centric platform that let foodies do it all in one user-friendly interface. It allows users to organize, remember and share their food experiences. They aim to build the next-generation food platform where users can find and access reliable and more trusted information.

Best Tech Manager (Chicago) | Sam oversees the entire Production department at Jellyvision: 53 people. Not only does she inspire those 53 people to do the nigh impossible, year after year, but she’s made it her goal to help them climb the ranks of the department, from Production Associate to Production Specialist, from Senior Production Specialist to Production Manager. Sam leads her reports to build great software, and she builds up her reports to lead great careers.

Best Tech Startup (Silicon Valley) | Petuum is a combined team of industry veterans and mission-driven AI scientists from the world's leading AI institute, Carnegie Mellon University. We witnessed the problems with existing AI solutions: specialized machined learning experts hand craft a one-off models, a process that is slow, expensive and not scalable. We've made it our mission to change this! We are making AI accessible to all businesses by turning AI from an artisan-craft into a standardized, industrial-grade enterprise tool. This enables the fast development and deployment of AI solutions without an in-house team of specialized AI talent, allowing any organization to unlock the value of AI "fast and fuss-free." With $108 million in investor funding led by SoftBank, Petuum is one of the highest-funded Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning startups. Petuum enables and orchestrates AI for enterprise with our software platform as well as vertical industry solutions. Our AI platform allows enterprises to design, build, experiment, customize, operate and own vertical AI solutions in a wide range of industries and areas. Our vertical industry solutions provide end-to-end AI functions for a variety of industry verticals, starting with Healthcare and Manufacturing / IoT

Best Tech Work Culture (Philadelphia) | ShopRunner creates an environment for employees to grow, learn and collaborate with team members. The culture is centered on seven core values: boldness, inclusion, grit, candor, accountability, spirit and hustle. The company believes great ideas should not solely come from senior leadership but from employees at any level.

Best Tech Manager (Los Angeles) | Much of Boingo’s success can be attributed to the leadership of its Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Derek Peterson. Dr. Peterson is an exceptional leader with the outstanding ability of bringing out the best in people. His passion, varied experience, knowledge in all aspects of technology and make-it-happen attitude makes him an absolute valuable asset at Boingo Wireless—and the prime example of Best Tech Manager.

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 Workplace for Diversity (Los Angeles) | ConsumerTrack as a business has always been way ahead of diversity in tech and digital. Our Team even jokes when this subject trends on lack of gender diversity in Silicon Valley, that our inequality is the opposite as we have more women than men across our Executive Team and overall Team.

Best Tech Startup (Boston) | The Elemental Machines team is comprised of transformative leaders with diverse professional backgrounds. Team members have previously worked in the energy, media, education, life sciences, consumer, and technology industries. So,what brings this unique group of individuals together? The answer is that each team member is motivated to be a part of the pioneering team for IoT for life sciences industry.

Best Tech Work Culture (Boston) | Inside of Tamr, CEO, Andy Palmer, has a simple philosophy for ensuring that the organization is strong enough to sustain innovation over time: “happy people, healthy company,” where personal and professional development are held with equally high regard.

Best Tech Manager (San Francisco) | Christina's main focus is on promoting the careers of her team and inspiring innovation (with the make it happen spirit). She is dedicated to the success of our team but through the lens of the individual's growth which enables a collaborative and supportive team culture.

Best Tech Work Culture (San Francisco) | Kintone emulates parent company Cybozu in Japan, voted #1 Great Place to Work for Women. We practice a concept of 100 People, 100 Styles of Work to celebrate work-life balance and diversity in the workplace.

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 Manager (Chicago) | Jessica DeJong is an incredibly deserving recipient of the Best Tech Manager award, not only because of her own professional accomplishments, but also because of the way she leads and cultivates her team of front-end developers and designers at One North. As One North has grown and evolved, a need emerged to bridge the gap between creative and strategic services and technology teams internally. Jessica took a leap of faith and dove into the role of managing a team of front-end developers and designers, creating a new team, interaction design, that has become an incredible source of innovation, creativity and a driver of culture and collaboration.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Silicon Valley) | Sauce Labs believes that diversity and inclusion are central to a performant and healthy organizational culture. We welcome differences and embrace individuality. We are committed to a culture that not only allows our team members to be who they are, but one that also celebrates them.

Best Tech Manager (Toronto) | Hima, Lead, Quality Assurance at Climax sees an opportunities and jumps at them, constantly pushing boundaries and trying to improve. Hima believes in the good kind of failure, the small but significant mistakes; the kind she and her team can learn from. This alone inspires innovation across her team; encouraging team members to speak up, share ideas, and ask questions. Hima consistently goes above and beyond for her team. She is a wonderful role model for young women getting into the technology industry.

Best Tech Startup (Los Angeles) | . Tuition.io’s platform is a proven tool for employers to hire and retain competitive talent while also reinforcing a culture of happier and more productive employees. As such, Tuition.io knows first-hand the importance of a great working environment and promotes a positive, forward-thinking and collaborative office culture.

Best Tech Manager (NYC) | Jay Signorello lives out StreetEasy’s core values every day. Jay leads engineering for all New York brands including StreetEasy, Naked Apartments and Out East as the Vice President of Engineering. As the group leader on a team of 50+ employees, Jay is a great example of the StreetEasy core value “ZG is a Team Sport.” He recognizes that everyone has a role and together we are stronger and can accomplish more than we ever could as individuals.

Best Tech Startup (Orange County) | CPI establishes a suite of security program development tools with a focus on progress over legacy compliance-based approaches that cause most organization to struggle. This solution provides a free cyber security score along with tools and resources for organizations to quickly improve their security program health. Unlike other cyber security score providers, CPI focuses on building security programs that can move forward.

Best Tech Work Culture (Washington DC) | GRIMM is an engineering and consulting firm that researches, develops and advises on the art of the possible in cybersecurity. This is accomplished by building a team with diverse technical backgrounds from government, industry, academia and public policy. GRIMM’s team members collaborate across projects and are also free to pursue their unique areas of professional interest which underscores the company’s dedication to innovation, research and advanced problem solving.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Chicago) | Noirefy’s mission is to connect ethnically diverse professionals, specifically from underrepresented backgrounds, directly to established professionals as well as employee-seeking companies. As a company that's sole mission to expand diversity in companies, she undoubtedly implements diverse practices within her own company. As an overall voice for diversity in the industry (as echoed in the Chicago Tribune, Windy City Live, Marie Claire, etc.) Shaniqua and Noirefy are continually promoting collaboration, and diverse thinking and Noirefy itself is a resource to explore diverse talents.

Best Tech Work Culture (NYC) | Beyond understands that successful teams are based on diverse people with different backgrounds, collaborating in safe and positive environments. Beyond organizes into cross-functional teams allowing the tech team to be involved far earlier, learn from others and help influence the direction of their projects.

Best Workplace for Diversity (Orange County) | Today we are a worldwide company, with headquarters here in Irvine, engineering offices in Israel, and sales offices in the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Brazil, Japan, and more. Despite these many locations and the diversity of our backgrounds, the company is unified by our common purpose. From our patented virtual private storage array technology, to the introduction of the world's first enterprise storage-as-a-service offering, at Zadara we're on a mission to provide ‘zero-risk’ enterprise data storage and management.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (San Francisco) | Sauce Labs believes that diversity and inclusion are central to a performant and healthy organizational culture. They welcome differences and embrace individuality. They are committed to a culture that not only allows their team members to be who they are, but one that also celebrates them.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Silicon Valley) |A healthy and diverse workplace starts with a strong culture. At Drobo, we learned the hard way that when you don’t put culture first, the whole company suffers. For this reason, we implemented five core values that drive how we work. These core values are Customer-Centricity; Passion and Pride; Do More with Less; Ownership & Delivering Results; and Teamwork & Family Spirit. Over 10 years ago, we were the classic Silicon Valley company that had a culture of working too hard, being brash, and not treating our employees well. We experienced first hand how toxic our culture was when we had to be split off from our parent company. That turnaround story is still being written, but at the core of it, is how our the core values came about. The cultural shift started with Drobo’s CEO, Mihir Shah.

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 Work Culture (NYC) |AgilityIO has expert knowledge of the latest design tools and keeps up-to-date on the latest social impact news from around the globe. Through Slack, AgilityIO shares new products and tools with each other that might streamline their workflow. For each client, they host an individual, innovative product discovery workshop to develop the MVP. Through market research and defining the end goal, AgilityIO has been able to find that niche market that will push a successful product launch.

Best Tech Work Culture (Silicon Valley) | At TIBCO, we know the ability to continually develop innovative solutions plays a big role with success, because in our industry, remaining static will get you left behind. To encourage continuous innovation, employee contributions are frequently acknowledged at company-wide meetings. From filing a new patent or simply going above and beyond with a project, employees’ efforts are always recognized and supported.

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 Tech Startup (NYC) | Before goodLinc, nonprofits usually renewed product and service contracts without performing adequate due diligence to ensure they had the best value for their needs. goodLinc built a no cost, supportive bridge connecting nonprofit organizations and businesses that serve the sector. Free memberships are provided to support sustainability and financial health of the nonprofit community. Members are encouraged to build connections and engage with others to collaborate, share ideas and best practices.

Best Tech Work Culture (NYC) | Pager strives to ensure that every employee has the tools and resources they need do their best work. Creating a disruptive solution to a problem as significant as changing the consumer experience in healthcare, requires a team commitment to creative and innovative thinking. To ensure that our employees are set up for success, we provide the tools and resources they need to maximize their potential.

Best Tech Work Culture (Toronto) | At Rangle.io, each employee receives an annual $2000 learning allowance for conferences/professional development. Rangle also encourages employees to participate in Guilds & ongoing learning opportunities. In guilds, employees team up with fellow innovators on topics that are close to their heart. Our active groups include the Accessibility Guild, Design Guild, Diversity Guild, IoT, AI, Quality Guild, and more. As Rangle grows, so do the opportunities to get to know more talented colleagues. Friday social happy hour and catered lunch and learns are just a few of the ways we grow relationships each week.

Best Tech Startup (Los Angeles) | UpKeep is a mobile-first solution for maintenance management. Our user-friendly solution allows users to snap a picture of a broken piece of equipment, create a work order, and send it off to a technician for repair - all from a mobile device.

Best Tech Manager (Chicago) | ShopRunner’s Chief Technology Officer, Greg Ball, is an accessible, supportive and forward-thinking leader. Under his leadership, Ball’s team transforms raw data into a value proposition tool that helps retail partners strengthen their business strategies and compete in the marketplace. This aspect is unique to ShopRunner as other ecommerce players typically withhold this type of data from partners. Ball’s work positions ShopRunner as an appealing partner to retailers and contributes significantly to the company’s growth.

Best Tech Startup (San Francisco) | Fountain works to address the very real need in the industry for technology that is focused on the unique issues around hiring hourly employees (from delivery drivers to retail employees). Their product is designed for automating the hiring process and utilizes tools like machine learning and text messaging with candidates in order to improve the time to hire.

Best Tech Startup (Toronto) | Xesto is building a machine learning platform to change the way creators and developers think about interaction – they can now leverage natural user interaction in their creations. Using Xesto’s patented IP creators will be able to prototype & build experiences with integrated gesture recognition interfaces through an API in minutes. Similar to how NLP was a catalyst for speech recognition, the machine learning engineers at Xesto are applying spatial analysis for gesture recognition. They enable gesture recognition & interaction on current hardware (iPhone X, VR headsets, smartphones coming out, etc..) allowing creators to prototype and build exciting experiences across industries and technologies. Their tracking technology can be leveraged in AR & VR from both a shopping perspective (try on experiences) to interaction with virtual objects on smartphones.

Best Tech Manager (Silicon Valley) | Roman Kisin is Parley Pro’s CTO and leads the product development team. He is a great tech leader not only because he has the technical chops, but because he truly believes that everyone on his team is great. Roman come to work every day with a positive outlook and passes his contagious attitude to his team.

Best Tech Workplace Diversity (Boston) | MineralTree breaks the mold of a typical startup by employing team members that span a broad range of age groups.

Best Tech Startup (Philadelphia) | Asset-Map remains a visually engaging DOL-compliant sales tool for advisors, going above and beyond the recently outlined regulations. The platform visually facilitates meaningful financial conversations and illustrates a client’s complete financial landscape in a simple, 1-page snapshot.

Best Tech Workplace for Diveristy (San Francisco) | The tech industry has a reputation for being historically male-dominated. As part of Skillz’s ongoing mission to address gender imbalance across the space, the company recently signed the ParityPledge – a commitment to interview at least one qualified woman for every executive opening. Skillz was not only the first eSports company to sign this pledge, but also the first in the entire gaming industry as well.

Best Tech Manager (Toronto) | Vikram Singh, Head of Engineering at Architech, promotes innovation, strives for professional growth within his team and has an amazing eye for fantastic products. Vikram is known for working very closely with his team, understanding their skills-sets and career aspirations. Vikram has an open-door policy as a Manager - his team feels comfortable talking to him about their professional and personal hurdles as they arise. His team looks up to him not only as a leader, but a friend, and describes him as a person who is intelligent, kind, always curious about new technologies, and constantly looking for exciting projects & products to work on.

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 Manager (Washington DC) | After being named CIO in 2015, Amy Doherty focused on continuing the evolution of IT into a value creator and innovator within AARP. She has creatively built bonds and lines of communications with the ITS team through regular meetings to better understand how things are progressing. Shortly after, delivery of projects were up ninety-six percent and there were thirty-four percent fewer outages.

Best Tech Manager (Washington DC) | Since forming CVP, Anirudh Kulkarni, CVP’s CEO, has worked for the past 15 years to develop the firm into one of the most innovative and fastest growing technology consulting companies in the industry. In 2017, CVP’s staff grew from 181 employees to over 300. Concurrently, CVP’s year-over-year revenue grew 51% and it has tripled its office space. In the past two years CVP’s projects have been recognized for several awards including AFCEA Industry Leader of the Year Award, two finalist projects for the Greater Washington Innovation Awards, and two consecutive FedHealthIT Innovation Awards. CVP has been on Inc. Magazine’s “Fastest Growing Companies” list for 8 years, and CVP and Mr. Kulkarni were recipients of the Association of Corporate Growth Award in 2018.

Best Tech Work Culture (Silicon Valley) | At Shopkick, employees from all teams have potential to be extraordinary. Upon that foundation we’ve built a culture of innovation, encouraging participation and boosting creative confidence. We’ve made it a priority to foster an environment where our employees come to work knowing they can make an impact. “One team, one dream,” a phrase our employees hear frequently in meetings or see written in emails is one that encapsulates our outlook on innovation.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Orange County) | At AutoGravity, we pride ourselves in our diverse hiring practices and office environment. We have approximately 10% more women in the workforce than the tech industry average. AutoGravity celebrates its diversity with an annual “International Day” celebration, where everyone wears something to represent their homeland, brings native cuisine to share with their colleagues, and imparts narratives about their heritage. "One Team, One Dream" is our company mantra coined by our international team of digital natives.

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 Manager (Orange County) | Travis promotes career growth in his employees while also looking to help aspiring talent in other teams. He leads by example in creating and maintaining a team culture of execution and team spirit. At the same time, he drives both technical and process innovation. Through it all, Travis clearly communicates, reinforces, and executes the vision with his employees and with other functions.