Cloud Marketing Automation Leader Recognized Among The Most Promising Privately Held Technology Companies in North America
San Mateo, CA (PRWEB) May 20, 2009 -- www.marketo.com - Marketo, the fastest growing provider of marketing automation software and best practices, today announced that it has been selected as a winner of the Red Herring 100 North America Award. Past award winners include Google, Yahoo!, Skype, Netscape, Salesforce.com, and YouTube.
"Marketo's explosive growth, user experience and cloud marketing innovation makes it one of the most exciting privately held technology companies in North America and an inspiration to entrepreneurs around the world," said Alex Vieux, CEO, Red Herring. "With its vision and strong leadership, Marketo is helping marketing and sales teams succeed in generating explosive revenue growth."
"Marketo is honored to receive this distinction as a Red Herring 100 North America winner after our first full year in the marketplace," said Phil Fernandez, Marketo's President and CEO. "The entire team at Marketo remains relentlessly focused on delivering industry-leading lead management and sales effectiveness solutions to yield high levels of customer success and measurable revenue results. We share this award with our passionate community of customers and partners, including those who were similarly honored by Red Herring."
The Red Herring editorial team deploys a detailed process to whittle down a pool of 1,000 eligible, promising companies to the 200 Finalists and in a last round decided for the top 100 winners of this important North American award. Evaluations are made on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, innovation, management, global strategy, and ecosystem integration. The Winners, elite executives and venture capital leaders from North America will celebrate the Top 100 Privately Held Companies in San Diego, May 11-14, 2009.
About Marketo:
Marketo is the fastest growing provider of marketing automation and best practices. Our SaaS-based solutions empower marketing and sales teams to collaborate throughout the revenue cycle from demand generation and lead management to revenue and beyond. Our award-winning portfolio of email marketing, lead nurturing, lead scoring, and sales effectiveness tools ignite explosive revenue growth. Voted '2008 Best Marketing Automation Application' by Salesforce customers on the Force.com AppExchange, Marketo is tightly integrated with salesforce.com for the best overall user experience and the fastest time to value.
About Red Herring:
Red Herring is a global media company, which unites the world's best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider's access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy. More information about Red Herring is available online at www.redherring.com.
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