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

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