Best Tech Startup (San Francisco) | Matterport has the only A.I.-based 3D software that allows consumers to create an accurate 3D model of any space/property then revisit that space at any time in 3D or VR as if they were truly there. The disruptive technology is quickly reshaping critical components of the real estate, insurance, hospitality, and engineering industries.

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 (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 (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 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 (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 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 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) | 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 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 Work Culture (Orange County) | Every day we work to stand out from the ranks of other IT companies by providing exceptional insight, innovative solutions, and unparalleled service. In addition to fostering an environment that promotes creativity and learning, Sidepath has created a culture that embodies a feeling of family. The founders truly care about the people who work here, and it’s evident in every aspect of the business, from employee engagement, to the benefits package which includes 100% covered health care, and other smaller perks like bringing in lunch for the team on an almost weekly basis.

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 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 (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 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 Work Culture (Boston) | Carbon Black is proud of its many high-performance teams. These teams are interconnected networks of talented, driven people. Our teams are inspired by our leaders who chart a clear course for our mission and create an environment where teams and individuals are given the resources, support, and freedom to pioneer new ideas and ways to work in order to keep our customers safe from cyberattacks.

Best Tech Manager (Los Angeles) | Creative thinking is promoted and fostered by Navdeep via extremely high levels of cross company communication. Special channels are set up just to allow any employee to share ideas, and discuss them with the entire organization. This combined with a high level of understanding of the core product company-wide produces a fertile environment for innovation.

Best Tech Startup (Los Angeles) | For the past 100 years the neurologists standard toolbox has consisted of a stethoscope, a hammer, and a tuning fork to qualitatively asses patients. By combining machining learning with robotics, Neural Analytics is poised to transform neurological care by providing low-cost and objective patient diagnostic information.

Best Tech Work Culture (Toronto) | Top Hat strives to create and maintain a workplace that captures, shares and acts upon learning. For example, high-impact continuous learning is part of the corporate culture where the company invests in training to solidify and certify new skills and add still more to its employees’ toolboxes. Workspaces at Top Hat encourage collaborative learning amongst everyone from interns up to C-suite execs, to enable planned collaboration and serendipitous collisions. Because the company comprises smart, engaged continuous learners, employees are full of ideas about how to make teams work better, and they are given the latitude to enact them.

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 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 (Chicago) | The entire Buildout culture is built on collaboration and learning through trying new things and sharing new tools with the rest of the team. Every employee is encouraged to take risks without fear of making a mistake or facing consequences if an attempted innovation doesn’t work exactly as expected.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Boston) | Avrio AI is one of the most collaborative companies that I have ever worked for. This collaboration is fostered by the diversity of the team. With two women on the executive team and team members from all different countries you don't have to look far to find diversity at Avrio AI.

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 Workplace for Diversity (Los Angeles) | Our diversity is the foundation for a dynamic company culture that brings creativity and rigor to every new challenge, and we have worked to develop equality of opportunity through our cultural foundations and organizational structure.

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 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 Workplace for Diversity (Toronto) | Destiny Solutions hire employees based on skills and qualifications and are not biased against gender and/or ethnicity. During our hiring process, we focus on the candidate’s cultural fit and their alignment with our core values, which allows us to build a diverse team. Our team composition is 40% female and 60% male and our employees also come from different cultural and social backgrounds which cultivates different opinions and views. We also actively hire students and new graduates to help evolve our company with new ideas.

Best Tech Startup (Silicon Valley) | Xage Security has created an innovative product for securing the rapidly evolving Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). As connected devices become more pervasive in our world – from smart homes to cars to cities to personal devices to factories – convenience and productivity have increased, but so has the risk of catastrophic hacks and security events. While technology has made our world more connected, security technology has remained static. Still tied to hardcoded username/password approaches and traditional, centralized security systems, IoT devices – predicted to be about 20 to 30 billion by 2020 – are increasingly vulnerable to attack. Xage’s executive team––Roman Arutyunov (co-founder), Susanto Irwan (co-founder), and Duncan Greatwood (CEO)––is working to maintain security without sacrificing IoT benefits. With years of experience across cybersecurity and distributed systems, Xage’s team has pushed the boundaries of IIoT security by creating a novel solution––a blockchain-protected security fabric securing the evolving IoT technology of today and tomorrow. Eliminating a single point of failure while getting stronger and more secure with each device added, Xage’s products have huge social impact – as a foundational solution preventing dangerous hacks on connected systems, and enabling previously unscalable projects. The fabric introduces groundbreaking innovation, such as distributing encryption keys with blockchain tamperproofing to preserve the confidentiality of secret information such as IoT device password.

Best Workplace for Diversity (Orange County) | This year, Numecent’s CEO was recognized for creating one of the best working environments for diversity. He is a leader who creates cultures that support and encourage employees of color, providing a positive framework for other executives to model. The company celebrates the diverse backgrounds of its employees while being united by its commitment to providing quality enterprise software to maximize productivity and minimize frustrations. From beers around the world on Fridays to multi-cultural potlucks, voluntary activities for the company’s diverse population are unanimously attended.

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 Work Culture (San Francisco) | As a fast moving, bleeding edge startup, OverOps is in a constant state of change, leaving plenty of room for innovation and new ways of tackling challenges. Employees are not only encouraged but expected to bring new ideas, techniques and methodologies to the table. Whether it’s something small, like streamlining the way updates are shared across the team, or something big, like applying artificial intelligence to the product for new capabilities, the OverOps leadership team encourages and implements new ideas from team members of all levels on a daily basis. Technical employees are allotted significant time to explore new ideas and develop projects that could result in new features, resources or processes. The team is also encouraged to devote time to their personal brand by participating in external projects, events and communities.

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 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 Manger (Chicago) | Traveling abroad is about breaking down barriers and playing bass guitar in a band is about communication. According to Reverb Chief Operating Officer (and Crum’s manager) Dan Melnick, these are two of Crum's biggest strengths. “Kyle is a connector, constantly facilitating crucial face-to-face communication across teams. It’s such an asset to our tech team and Reverb as a whole because, at the end of the day, tech isn’t about code. It’s about communicating: Understanding problems and who are impacted by them, communicating that to the tech team, and then communicating those solutions back to the stakeholders.”

Best Tech Manager (Silicon Valley) | Ilan promotes career growth by promoting top performers on his team. I've worked with because in addition to HR, I am also the Recruiting leader and I was pleasantly surprised at how he told us the #1 thing he looks when interviewing is that they are a "nice, good and genuine person".

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 Work Culture (Philadelphia) | At AWeber, team members recognize each other’s accomplishments using an internal “props” board, as well as recognize a team member each month with the company AWesome Award. Outside of professional development, the AWeber team participates in the AWeber Academy, where they teach each other about their hobbies outside of work. From beer brewing and sewing to bird watching and drywalling, there’s no shortage of topics to satisfy team members’ interests.

Best Tech Manager (San Francisco) | Brian is a phenomenal manager, leader, mentor, and colleague. His priority from day 1 has been building an open, collaborative culture that thrives on new ideas, open-mindedness, and respect. He ensures that everyone in our company has a voice and the ability to make significant impact.

Best Tech Workplace for Diversity (Philadelphia) | AWeber has always celebrated differences within their workplace, but have recently launched their new WE@AWeber program to create greater awareness of diversity at the company. This new program includes a monthly meeting to openly and honestly discuss diversity topics. The company also sends a monthly WE@AWeber newsletter, where they share links to articles that relate to various diversity topics, as well as local events and meetups that support diversity.

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 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 Manager (San Francisco) | Pankaj Risbood is the kind of leader that has perfected the balance between empowering his employees and getting his hands dirty in the details. Pankaj is a man of the people - he is always available to teach and listen to issues while embodying Zendrive’s core values of true grit, innovation, and big ideas. In crisis mode, he hunkers down and leads from the front, using every moment as a learning opportunity.

Best Tech Work Culture (Toronto) | With respect to the Toronto tech community, BrainStation promotes innovation by providing the community with an avenue to explore and create creative solutions in data, marketing, product, design, and development. In turn, this creates a network of innovators who are able to bounce ideas off one another, contributing to an ever-growing tech community. As a Digital Learning Company, BrainStation embodies all the values of a learner. The company understands that learning is not one-dimensional, but rather multi-faceted. Learning requires different approaches (in-campus, online), flexibility (weekdays nights, weekends), and different areas of knowledge. BrainStation is able to address all of these while ensuring the best content for its students.

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 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 (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 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 (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.