Which of these 5 fast-growing companies will become the Next Tech Titan? – GeekWire

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Past winners of GeekWire’s Next Tech Titan award have finished a success IPOs, landed large investment rounds and emerged as some of the maximum robust new companies in the Pacific Northwest.

Over the subsequent two weeks, we’re opening balloting in 13 GeekWire Awards classes, with GeekWire readers opting for their best selections from finalists decided on by means of our panel of judges from group nominations. Check again on GeekWire on a daily basis to solid your poll. Winners will be published at the GeekWire Awards — offered by means of Wave Business — on May 10th at the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle. The GeekWire Awards promote out yearly, so move right here to buy tickets for this one-of-a-kind tech birthday celebration.

Which of the 5 finalists will sign up for previous winners like BitTitan, Smartsheet, Avalara, Zulily and Tableau Software?

Vote on our ballot under and proceed studying for more info about the finalists for Next Tech Titan — Accolade, Convoy, Outreach, Remitly and Rover — backed by means of former winner Smartsheet.

Accolade

Accolade continues to pile up the accolades from traders, having simply raised a $50 million spherical ultimate month, to deliver the healthcare era corporate to greater than $200 million raised in its lifetime.

Accolade makes use of a mix of private well being information, system finding out, synthetic intelligence, cellular apps, analytics, and human concierge “Health Assistants” to assist supply customers with personalised healthcare suggestions. Accolade’s shoppers are huge employers like Comcast, Lowe’s, Allegiant, AmeriGas, Temple University Health System and extra.

Founded in 2007 in Pennsylvania, the corporate made an enormous splash in 2016 when it employed Concur co-founders Raj Singh and Mike Hilton to best government positions. They then established a 2nd corporate headquarters in Seattle. Today, Accolade employs 800 other people, together with 120 in Seattle. It expects so as to add some other few hundred workers this 12 months.

Singh informed GeekWire ultimate month that U.S. employers constitute 170 million other people paying for healthcare. And like he did at Concur with worker bills, he desires to make use of era to deliver down prices for employers and make the gadget extra approachable for workers.

Convoy

Seattle startup Convoy helps to keep on truckin’. The corporate’s platform fits 100,000 truckers with to be had jobs, and it has unexpectedly grown to 225 workers.

That’s up from 120 workers this previous July, when Convoy raised a $62 million spherical from traders like Bill Gates, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Code.org founders Hadi and Ali Partovi, former Starbucks president Howard Behar, Expedia Chairman Barry Diller, and others. The spherical introduced Convoy to $80.5 million raised because it used to be based in 2015.

The startup is helping facilitate shipments to greater than 400 shoppers, together with 20 Fortune 500 companies, and makes cash by means of protecting a proportion of every transaction. It has offers with massive companies like Anheuser-Busch and Unilever.

Convoy operates in a aggressive business, struggling with in opposition to Uber Frieght, freight-booking startups like Transfix and uShip and huge incumbents like C.H. Robinson and XPO Logistics. Can Convoy transfer from Startup of the Year — the award it took house in 2017 — to Next Tech Titan in the direction of 12 months? We shall see.

Outreach

Fresh off a transfer to a new, larger headquarters house and a $30 million investment spherical, Outreach is able to take the subsequent step.

The gross sales instrument automation corporate is helmed by means of 2017 CEO of the Year nominee Manny Medina, and has raised $60 million because it used to be based in 2013.

Outreach at first constructed instrument equipment for recruiters, however it pivoted in 2014 to concentrate on equipment for salespeople. It used to be a key transfer.

The corporate now is helping purchasers like Pandora, Adobe, and Zillow automate and streamline communique with gross sales possibilities. It provides one gadget to trace all contact issues, from telephone calls to emails to LinkedIn messages. The instrument integrates with present equipment like Salesforce and Gmail.

“Like many industries, technology is transforming sales from an art to a science,” Medina stated at the time of its investment spherical. “Sales is no longer about following up on inbound leads and hunting for a few big deals. It is about sales excellence – predictably executing the right selling activities at the right time.”

Remitly

Remitly is doing giant issues.

The Seattle startup shall we other people switch cash the world over, and it raised the largest investment spherical amongst Pacific Northwest companies in 2017. The $115 million spherical used to be led by means of PayU, a global on-line cost provider supplier and the fintech arm of Naspers, an international funding corporate with fairness stakes in tech giants like Tencent and Flipkart, amongst loads of others and will assist Remitly “supercharge” its expansion.

Remitly describes itself as the greatest unbiased cellular remittance corporate in the U.S.; it lets in other people to ship cash from 3 international locations (U.S., U.Ok., and Canada) to 10 international locations (Philippines, India, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Peru).

Remitly’s era is helping do away with the want for bureaucracy, codes, brokers, and different charges usually related to the global cash switch procedure. The corporate lets in loose transfers if the sender can wait 3 days for the finances to reach; it fees a $three.99 flat fee for same-day transfers and bank card transfers come with an extra three p.c charge.

Rover

This Seattle startup has briefly become one of the best canines in the Northwest tech scene. Last 12 months, pet-sitting startup Rover were given a $65 million money infusion led by means of Spark Capital, an investor in companies like Slack, Twitter, Oculus, Warby Parker, and Trello.

Founded in 2011 by means of mission capitalist Greg Gottesman and developer Phil Kimmey, Rover runs one of the greatest puppy products and services marketplaces. It is helping fit greater than 140,000 vetted sitters throughout 10,000 towns in North America with pet-owners on the lookout for somebody to take care of their canines and different animals.

We’ve pegged Rover as a possible IPO candidate this 12 months, and the startup has raised as regards to $160 million in its lifetime. It additionally devoured up one of its greatest competition, DogVacay, ultimate 12 months.

Rover already holds a place in the annals of GeekWire Awards historical past. Its leader government Aaron Easterly gained the CEO of the Year honor at the 2016 GeekWire Awards.

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