BusinessWeek and market researcher YouNoodle have teamed up to identify 50 tech startups flying under the radar. The list includes fledgling tech companies most started in 2005 and later from the U.S., China, India, Israel, and Russia that are attracting some early buzz and are poised to grow beyond their regional or niche-market origins.
*A YouNoodle Score is a measurement, on a scale of 0 to 100, of a startup’s progress as an early-stage company. Typically, a 0-15 company is just getting started, a 30-60 company has experienced some very strong growth (through traffic, funding, or revenue), and a 90-plus company is a strong IPO or acquisition candidate. The score is based on a sophisticated algorithm using information from thousands of online sources: traffic, level of mainstream media coverage, funding, blogosphere activity, and other key factors.
| Company | Headquarters | *YouNoodle
Score
|
Total Funding (in Millions of Dollars) |
Year Funded | CEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zynga | San Francisco | 97 | 39 | 2007 | Mark Pincus |
| Tudou | Shanghai | 96 | 84.5 | 2005 | Gary Wang |
| Ning | Palo Alto, Calif. | 96 | 104 | 2004 | Gina Bianchini |
| OpenDNS | San Francisco | 93 | 2.5 | 2005 | David Ulevitch |
| Etsy | Brooklyn, N.Y. | 91 | 31.6 | 2005 | Maria Thomas |
| Sonico | Buenos Aires | 91 | 4.3 | 2007 | Rodrigo Teijeiro |
| Scribd | San Francisco | 91 | 12.8 | 2007 | Trip Adler |
| Slide | San Francisco | 91 | 58 | 2005 | Max Levchin |
| RockYou | Redwood City, Calif. | 89 | 68.5 | 2006 | Lance Tokuda |
| Komli Media | Mumbai, India | 83 | 7 | 2006 | Amar Goel |
| Justin.tv | San Francisco | 81 | 4 | 2006 | Michael Siebel |
| Ibibo | Gurgaon, Haryana, India | 77 | N/A | 2007 | Ashish Kashyap |
| AdMob | San Mateo, Calif. | 76 | 47.2 | 2006 | Omar Hamoui |
| Jajah | Mountain View, Calif. | 68 | 28 | 2005 | Trevor Healy |
| Daylife | New York | 67 | 8.3 | 2007 | Upendra Shardanand |
| TheFind | Mountain View, Calif. | 66 | 26 | 2006 | Siva Kumar |
| QueBarato | Brazil | 65 | 6 | 2007 | Pending confirmation |
| Adconion Media Group | London | 64 | 80 | 2005 | T. Tyler Moebius |
| Kosmix | Mountain View, Calif. | 60 | 55 | 2005 | Venky Harinarayan |
| Evernote | Mountain View, Calif. | 60 | 13.5 | 2005 | Phil Libin |
| Yola | San Francisco | 60 | 25 | 2007 | Vinny Lingham |
| PBworks | San Mateo, Calif. | 57 | 2.5 | 2005 | Jim Groff |
| Spotify | Stockholm | 51 | 20 | 2006 | Daniel Ek |
| TokBox | San Francisco | 51 | 14 | 2007 | Ian Small |
| Loopt | Mountain View, Calif. | 48 | 13.3 | 2005 | Sam Altman |
| Xobni | San Francisco | 48 | 14.6 | 2006 | Jeff Bonforte |
| KupiVIP | Moscow | 48 | 11 | 2008 | Oskar Hartmann |
| Fon | Madrid | 44 | 48 | 2005 | Martin Varsavsky |
| Metaweb Technologies | San Francisco | 42 | 57 | 2005 | Thomas Layton |
| Huddle.net | London | 38 | 4 | 2006 | Alaisdair Mitchell |
| Mochi Media | San Francisco | 37 | 14 | 2005 | George Garrick |
| Boxee | New York | 36 | 4 | 2008 | Avner Ronen |
| Better Place | Palo Alto, Calif. | 33 | 200 | 2007 | Shai Agassi |
| Palantir Technologies | Palo Alto, Calif. | 31 | 36.7 | 2004 | Alex Karp |
| SecondMarket | New York | 31 | N/A | 2004 | Barry E. Silbert |
| Livescribe | Oakland, Calif. | 30 | 18.6 | 2007 | Jim Marggraff |
| Inrix | Kirkland, Wash. | 29 | 31.1 | 2004 | Bryan Mistele |
| Sermo | Cambridge, Mass. | 29 | 37.5 | 2006 | Daniel Palestrant |
| Modu | Kfar-Saba, Israel | 27 | 85 | 2007 | Dov Moran |
| SynapSense | Folsom, Calif. | 26 | 11 | 2006 | Peter Van Deventer |
| Pelago | Seattle | 25 | 22.4 | 2006 | Jeff Holden |
| Raydiance | Petaluma, Calif. | 24 | 20 | 2005 | Barry Schuler |
| Fusion-io | Salt Lake City | 23 | 66.5 | 2006 | David Bradford |
| Cloudera | Burlingame, Calif. | 22 | 11 | 2008 | Michael Olson |
| Bloom Energy | Sunnyvale, Calif. | 22 | N/A | 2002 | K.R. Sridhar |
| Positive Energy | Arlington, Va. | 22 | 15.5 | 2007 | Daniel Yates |
| Nila | Los Angeles | 22 | 0.6 | 2004 | Jim Sanfilippo |
| Monitise | London | 21 | 19 | 2004 | Alastair Lukies |
| Proclivity Systems | New York | 16 | 6.2 | 2006 | Sheldon Gilbert |
| Cotendo | San Carlos, Calif. | 12 | 7 | 2008 | Ronni Zehavi |
June 26th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
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June 30th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
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