We have been on the hunt for our most exciting early-stage partners. As a base, we leveraged Microsoft’s Empower for ISV program and worked with The Library House as well as our European subsidiaries to highlight partners that have the highest potential in terms of growth and market impact. More detail and background here.
As a result of the search, I gives me great pleasure to highlight the European Top 25 HIPE Companies:
- Agnitio (ES): innovative identity management solutions leveraging speaker biometric verification.
- Avoco Secure (UK): software solutions for digital asset protection and control of intellectual property.
- Comrange (UK): accelerated SaaS implementation and deployment environment for enterprise.
- Criteo (FR): real-time personalized recommendation solutions platform for e-tailers; Innovate!Europe award winner.
- Evidanza (DE): business intelligence solutions integrating ERP solutions including MS Dynamics.
- Excentive (FR): Enterprise Incentive Management solutions align company compensation plans with strategic goals.
- High-def Technologies (DE): creative technology-based, networked home solutions for the digital home.
- Illuminate Labs (SE): industry leading rendering technology with sophisticated baking functionality in one integrated toolset.
- Intrasense (FR): innovative suite of imaging solutions to allow review and analyse medical images; EU ICT Prize winner 2007.
- Jaczone (SE): integrated yet non-intrusive tools to support the implementation of software development best practices.
- MORS Software (FI): automated, intra-day, real-time, trading control for banks and corporate treasuries.
- Mydeo (UK): an online service delivering a safe and simple way to store and stream the videos you value.
- Otodio (UK): a solution enabling documents to be listened to with a massively improved user experience.
- Profimill Oy (FI): solutions to improve production performance, quality control and production management.
- Q-go (NL): natural language search for the enterprise to enable better customer relationships and internal enablement.
- Quantum Health (IE): web-based product suite targeting the fast-growing global Workplace Health market.
- SafeWhere (DK): authorization and access control products for Service Oriented Infrastructures and providers of SaaS.
- Seanodes (FR): solutions that extending the principles of commoditized distributed open systems to the world of data storage.
- tellmewhere.com (FR): user-friendly community to create, browse and share information about places through online collaboration.
- TreeMetrics (IE): delivering solutions that drive better information and decision making systems within the “Wood Supply Chain”.
- Visor (IE): online accounting solutions to help accountants move their practices online.
- VMScope (DE): solutions in the field of virtual microscopy that facilitate scenarios that light microscopy can’t cope with; EU ICT Prize winner 2007.
- Volutio (UK): an intelligent free service that works to organize your meetings, web and teleconferences using ubiquitous communications channels.
- WiseKey (CH): delivering online identity security and trust models through a unique distributed trust network worldwide.
- ZebTab (UK): user-focused desktop channel connecting brands and content with their focused consumers.
Note that the list is not a ranking. It is based on the information that we had at hand (focused on public information including funding, growth and media attention) and is drawn from the Empower partner base as it stood at March 2007. We took Empower as a snap-shot as many early stage companies utilise the Empower program to develop their solutions on the Microsoft platform.
Disclaimers aside, these companies represent some great innovation and outstanding potential in the market. There is great diversity both in terms of industry sectors and countries: a great representation of the exciting and dynamic Microsoft partner base!
