Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Los Angeles) | The team is diverse, with more than half of the team comprised of female employees, and many other team members hailing from different cultures and backgrounds and countries around the world. This unique mix of people has given Sidebench a completely unique identity that adds to their collective genius and overall methodologies.

Best Tech Startup (Philadelphia) | MVP Interactive is a team-first organization which has allowed them to remain nimble while taking on large projects and ultimately keeping customer satisfaction paramount. The company has broken through the divide of what sporting fans, teams, and brands are known to experience. By using cutting-edge technology, such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and facial recognition, MVPI is helping sports stadiums and teams as well as sponsoring brands better engage and market to their consumers.

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 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 (Philadelphia) | BSD Education is dedicated to empowering the kids of today with the tools for tomorrow. They partner with schools globally to make it easy to integrate tech and coding into all subjects, without the need to hire skilled professionals. To do this, they have developed innovative and engaging curriculum, offer professional development and have built an online learning platform.

Best Tech Startup (Orange County) | Trivver's revolutionary technology allows ad agencies, networks and advertisers to create and run ad campaigns in extended reality environments. Trivver's ad exchange serves branded content to targeted audiences in extended reality environments, by seamlessly integrating 3D models of the brands, Branded Smart Objects.

Best Tech Startup (Toronto) | Coinsquare employs forward-thinking tech leaders by embracing the fact that the digital currency/cryptocurrency space is just getting started. The most important thing is everyone has been given permission to make mistakes because there are very few companies that have grown this quickly in an industry that is brand new, the are no playbooks to look through, we're given the authority and trust to do what we think is best and have succeeded so far because of that.

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 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 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 Manager (Orange County) | Raj Singh is always available to help his team find solutions to any problems they are facing. He has a genuine attitude and drive for success that inspires his team to their best. He ensures that all his associates have the means they need to achieve their goals. He is innovative in his though processes and teaching style and makes an effort to be in the know on every department’s projects.

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 Manager (Philadelphia) | Gunter has led Stuzo through its roots as a social platform company, partnered with Facebook, through acquisition by the Dachis Group, through reacquisition of the company, and through a current transformation from being a digital product innovation company to becoming a SaaS platform company providing retail commerce solutions. This type of transformation is incredibly difficult, requires an insanely high degree of rigor, strategy, and execution, and is one of the current breakout success stories in all of tech in Philadelphia.

Best Tech Work Culture (Chicago) | Throughout StratEx’s growth and evolution, company culture and employees have been put first. In fact, StratEx didn’t seek outside capital until recently because of the impact it may have had on its company culture as a younger company. StratEx continually ranks on best places to work lists and is always improving its employee policies based on feedback they receive.

Best Tech Startup (Orange County) | NGD Systems aims to create the world’s first computational storage system. They are focused on bringing computation to data and in doing so, changing the economics and footprint requirements of real-time big data analytics. NGD’s advanced storage technology deploys patented In-Situ Processing technology to provide a computational storage capability that achieves unparalleled scalability for near real-time data processing.

Best Tech Startup (Silicon Valley) | At Astound, we believe work can and should be better. We hate that most people cringe at the thought of calling the support desk and we want to change that. We’ve developed an AI platform for employee service that automates the resolution of routine service issues like password resets, application configuration, and network outages, saving time and headaches on both sides of the support desk. With Astound, service requests get resolved faster and employees have more time to focus on the work that matters. We announced our launch and $11.5M Series A in early 2018. We’re proud to count some of the world’s leading organizations like McDonald’s and adidas as customers. Co-founded by two serial entrepreneurs, Naghi Prasad and Dan Turchin truly represent what’s great about our product - enterprise AI mastery and employee service domain expertise. Naghi and Dan have fostered a culture that challenges employees to do the best work of their career, discover better ways to build things, and make a lasting impact on the way people work. One IT expert recently compared AI-driven automation for employee service to the introduction of the ATM for personal banking. The ATM freed up tellers to focus on more high-value work. It also gave consumers access to routine banking services 24-7, virtually anywhere across the world. Astound is transforming employee service with AI-driven automation. We’re an early leader in a multi-billion dollar market. And we’re just getting started.

Best Tech Startup (Washington DC) | With partners ranging from Intel and IoTelic in the chip space to Nexmo and Twilio in the CPaaS and UCaaS spaces to Google's Firebase in the mobile space and PubNub and Soraa in the IoT space, Virgil provides a holistic privacy and security solution for the entirety of the Internet. Virgil makes quick and easy cryptography accessible to every developer in the world regardless of their programming language, their software platform, or their market.

Best Tech Manager (Silicon Valley)| Michael embodies the characteristics of a successful tech leader in today's modern tech startup. He's built the software engineering team at Eargo from the ground up, hiring nearly every engineer on the team today. Internal growth has also been a focus, as a number of engineers have already begun transitioning from frontend/full stack roles to full stack/backend roles, respectively. Having spent his career immersed in startups, he brings an attitude focused on execution. As a testament, he launched a redesign ecommerce website for Eargo in his first 2 months on the job with a team of just 3 engineers at the time. With a clear focus on execution and growth, he inspires and enables innovation to happen at Eargo.

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 Manager (Boston) | Rebecca is the ultimate motivator and connector. She's passionate about working with people to create a better world through the power of technology, having worked with numerous startups, helping them grow from the ground level.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (San Francisco) | Asana is setting a precedent for other companies to follow. At Asana, diversity is not the end goal, but a means to a more inclusive, more just, and more effective workplace. In 2015, Asana hired its first Head of Diversity and Inclusion (D&I), Sonja Gittens-Ottley, to spearhead programming around D&I and Belonging.

Best Tech Startup (San Francisco) | Fleetsmith was founded by a team of former IT admins who were frustrated by the IT management solutions that already existed on the market. Using powerful automation and user-focused product design chops they honed at companies like Dropbox and Fandom, they’ve built a management system that makes it easy for anyone to ensure their entire fleet of devices is properly managed, secure, and compliant.

Best Tech Startup (Orange County) | Sitch Ai is transforming the world of public safety with a technology that leverages machine learning to accurately detect active shooters in schools and public spaces. This technology also helps first responders arrive on-scene and immediately find and track the location of the shooter. Amidst the disagreements in government regarding gun laws, Sitch Ai is the disruptive technology that both sides of the gun law discussion can agree on.

Best Workplace for Diversity (Orange County) | “Diversity and Inclusion is a strategic topic for Thales.” – Patrice Caine, Chairman of Thales. We know it will help us foster innovation and creativity through a greater variety of approaches, perspectives and ideas. Having a diverse Thales culture and working environment is the only way to go if we want to attract and retain the best talent. At Thales we celebrate a number of events that promote our employees uniqueness to educate and encourage inclusivity not only in the U.S., but globally.

Best Tech Startup (Toronto) | Collage was founded in 2016 and has grown into a creative and hardworking company with a loyal, engaged. As a proudly Canadian company, Collage is uniquely positioned to help the underserved Canadian SMB market with nationwide payroll and benefits integrations and affordable pricing for companies from 3 to 150+ employees. Through the many challenges of growing a startup, Collage’s founders have consistently shared their vision and helped each employee understand their place in the company’s future. As a result, the half of our employees have been with the company since its first very first year.

Best Tech Work Culture (Boston) | The Pega technology organization, which includes our global engineering teams, has a holistic approach to creativity, innovation, and recognition – these concepts are, by their nature, interconnected.

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 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) | 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 Work Culture (San Francisco) | 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.

Best Tech Startup Manager (NYC) | Cody Musser is someone that everyone at Jakt looks up to, even if they don’t directly work with him. He balances a light hearted, nerdy excitement for everything he works on with a serious dedication to getting things done, doing them well, and making sure his team learns from their work. He regularly schedules one-on-one meetings with his teams, and they’re laser focused.

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 (Silicon Valley) Mikko is a passionate technical leader for Vincit. He helped open and run our Helsinki office, before moving to California to build the amazing culture and high quality services offered at Vincit California. He is truly focused on creating great software and living up to the mission of Vincit: making employees and customers happier tomorrow than they are today.

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 Manager (Orange County) | Sage inspires others to do better by promoting innovative ideas and growth of individual skills for both in the office and in their lives outside of the office. With decades of experience in tech startups and even breweries, he brings challenge and excitement to anything he's a part of. He practices hands off management but has an open-door policy and is easily accessible when his team needs him. He is exceptional at bringing his team together and promoting comradery, even though his team is spread out across the country.

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 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 Manager (Orange County) | Brian is a manager who creates clarity, generates energy, and delivers results. He prioritizes building an open, collaborative culture that thrives on new ideas, open-mindedness, and respect. He takes feedback very seriously and is willing to dedicate his valuable time to making sure every member of the team is set up for success. Brian spends time with hospitalized patients that Zott serves, so that he can better understand their needs and to ensure he never loses sight of the most important thing - the individual.

Best Tech Startup (Los Angeles) | Bitcoin IRA, the first and largest cryptocurrency platform that allows customers to purchase Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies for their retirement accounts, is working to disrupt the problematic state of retirement in America.

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 (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 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 Startup (Washington DC) | As a bootstrapped startup, our products are a direct reflection of the feedback we receive from clients—something that is just an idea today could be a new feature tomorrow or a new product later this year. We employ forward-thinking tech leadership by giving every engineer a chance to learn new ways of doing things and apply them to the product immediately. Our engineers are leaders in the charge of building software for public affairs professionals. Before these professionals were often stuck using tools that were built with someone else in mind, like Salesforce or Hubspot, but now they have tools built specifically for them

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 Manager (San Francisco) | As founder of Infield Digital, Marc leads a team of engineers, designers, and marketing specialists helping companies in multiple industries with their digital transformation. A deep knowledge of strategic communications has led him to guide numerous multi-channel campaigns bridging online and offline media.

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 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 (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 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.