Thursday, November 15, 2012

Fast MassTech Companies Lead North America

On the eve of the 8th Annual unConference of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, news hit that 45 Massachusetts companies were named to the prestigious 2012 Deloitte Technology Fast 500,the 18th annual ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, and clean technology companies – both public and private –  in North America.


Awarded to companies whom Deloitte describes as “on the cutting edge and are transforming the way we do business today,” Technology Fast 500 award winners for 2012 are determined based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth during the period from 2007 to 2011, with an average growth of 2,774 percent.

Impressively, winning companies from the "Boston" area (including Massachusetts, Southern New Hampshire and Northern Connecticut) constituted 10% of the winners circle, the second largest region, after #1 seeded San Francisco Bay Area.

In addition to a collection of bio-pharma innovators (Amag, AVEO, Vertex, others) a large contingent of MassTLC member companies were among the 45 Massachusetts "Fast" winners including Software-as-a-Service providers HubSpot, Carbonite, LogMeIn, as well as Woburn, MA-based HealthcareSource (the leading provider of talent management solutions for healthcare).

Executives from many of the winning companies are slated to attend the 2012 MassTLC unConference taking place tomorrow, Friday, Nov. 16 in Boston. 

Tech-Maven Bill Warner at the
 First MassTLC unConference in 2008
(Photo: Patrick Rafter)


While this year's unConference is expected to attract 800+ attendees (more than ever before), registration is still open at this point. As anyone who's ever attended and Tweeted about the @Mass TLC #unConference -- this event is the most innervative gathering of the year for anyone who has any connection to technology in New England.  Don't miss it!

Here's a rough "pull" I did of the 45 Massachusetts companies named to the Deloitte 2012 Technology 500. I look forward to congratulating many of the winners in person tomorrow at the 2012 MassTLC unConference, and buying some of my successful friends a celebratory cocktail! :-)



#
F500 Rank
Company
1.      
17
HubSpot
2.      
51
Carbonite
3.      
54
Ambient Corporation
4.      
64
Amag Pharmaceuticals
5.      
90
AVEO Pharmaceuticals
6.      
93
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals
7.      
96
Momenta Pharmaceuticals
8.      
114
Insulet Corporation
9.      
123
OmniGuide
10.    
124
SyntaPharmaceuticals
11.    
126
Itronis
12.    
146
Brightcove 
13.    
151
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
14.    
153
ARIAD Pharmaceuticals
15.    
154
Demandware
16.    
165
Celldex Therapies
17.    
188
Wave Systems
18.    
190
Satcon Technology
19.    
204
ArQule, Inc.
20.    
228
EnerNOC  
21.    
234
LogMeIn, Inc. #234
22.    
241
Dynasil Corporation of America
23.    
245
Sarpeta Therapeutics
24.    
249
Constant Contact, Inc
25.    
258
IneoQuest Technologies, Inc.
26.    
290
NxStage Medical, Inc.
27.    
327
athenahealth, Inc.
28.    
338
Cambridge NanoTech Inc.
29.    
379
HealthcareSource
30.    
338
Cambridge NanoTech Inc.
31.    
379
HealthcareSource
32.    
402
NetScout Systems, Inc.
33.    
427
Acme Packet
34.    
432
MEMSIC, Inc.
35.    
444
Pegasystems Inc.
36.    
446
Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 
37.    
456
IPG Photonics Corporation
38.    
464
Bullhorn
39.    
465
DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
40.    
468
Merchant Warehouse
41.    
469
Image Stream Medical
42.    
470
Technical Communications Corp.
43.    
477
Hologic, Inc.
44.    
485
Bridgeline Digital
45.    
496
BirdDog Solutions, Inc.


A 11/14/12 Deloitte press release contains more details and a PDF of the full listing of the Fast 500 list is available from the Deloitte website.

Hope to see some of you at the unConference and that you'll join me in extending a heartfelt: "BRAVO and Well Done!" to the Deloitte winners as well as a chance to meet up-and-coming MassTech innovators, likely to be on the Fast 500 list in years to come!