The Big50-2019 Startup Report is out! If you are subscribed to the Startup50 Newsletter, check your inbox today. The Big50-2019 should be on its way. If you are not subscribed to the Startup50 newsletter, go here to sign up. The Big50-2019 features: High-growth market sectors primed for hockey-stick growth, including SD-WAN and IoT 50 startups…
After a long wait, the establishment of new partnerships, and a ton of behind-the-scenes maneuvering, the Big50 2018-19 is almost here. The 50 startups featured in this year’s Big50 earned their way into this report through a combination of strong fundamentals (funding, team, named customers), market opportunity (current size, growth potential), and market niche (product-market…
Nominate your startup for my Network World “Hot Startups to Watch” story! If you work for, represent, or have invested in a Micro Data Center startup that you believe should be a Startup to Watch in 2019, please nominate them below. To be eligible, the startup must: Have been founded in 2010 or later. Be a real…
Nominate your startup for my Network World “Hot Startups to Watch” story! If you work for, represent, or have invested in a Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) startup that you believe should be a Startup to Watch in 2019, please nominate them below. To be eligible, the startup must: Have been founded in 2012 or later. Be a real…
Update: This competition is closed to new entries. Stay tuned for the final lineup. . . Update #2: The final story is now available on Network World. Thanks to all of the startups that participated in the competition, and congratulations to the 10 winners! 10 Hot IoT security startups to watch Nominate your startup for…
The final lineup for the Big50 2018-19 Startup Report is set! This year’s report spotlights 50 high-upside startups that have gained a foothold in fast-growth tech sectors. Each year, Startup50 features startups that are poised to upend the status quo in a range of industries, from next-gen cybersecurity to Software-Defined Networking to the Internet of…
Nominate your startup for my Network World “Hot Startups to Watch” story! If you work for, represent, or have invested in a quantum computing startup that you believe should be a “Hot Startup to Watch” in 2019, please fill out this Hot Startup Questionnaire. To be eligible, the startup must: Have been founded in 2011 or later. Be…
Well-funded startups are streamlining data centers with products such as software-defined servers and software-defined block storage, as well as providing multi-cloud application support and data as a service. Data-center virtualization is about much more than servers these days. Everything from storage to applications to entire infrastructure stacks are being virtualized by startups seeking to push virtualization throughout…
Today, we feature one of the startups who chose the Elevator Pitch path of Challenge 1. The first Elevator Pitch winner is Edgeworx, a startup developing an application and security platform for the network edge. (For an overview of this challenge, go here: Challenge 1 Overview.) Edgeworx was founded in 2017 and only emerged from…
The third winner of the Art of Disruption challenge is Webscale, an e-commerce infrastructure startup. (For an overview of this challenge, go here: Challenge 1 Overview.) Webscale was founded in 2013 to develop a cloud-based infrastructure platform for e-commerce. Backed by $18 million in VC funding, Webscale is led by Sonal Puri, who previously served…