Northzone Ventures' Portefolio Company Napatech the Worlds most promising Technology Companies
(Thomson Reuters ONE) - Napatech has been awarded a Red Herring Global 100 company as one of the worlds100 most promising companies based on innovation, technology and financialperformanceK?havn 26. januar 2010: Northzone Ventures' portfolio company Napatech hasbeen selected as one of the top 100 private companies in North America, Europeand Asia by Red Herring. This follows Napatech's selection for a Red Herring Top100 Europe award in April 2009. Napatech received the Red Herring Global 100award in recognition of the superior innovation, technology and financialperformance that Napatech has exemplified. "Choosing the best out of the previous three years was by no means a smallfeat," said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. "After rigorouscontemplation and discussion, we narrowed down our list from 1,200 potentialcompanies to 200 finalists. Trying to get it down to 100 companies was a taskupon itself. The top 100 companies who were chosen should be extremely proud,the competition was difficult."Red Herring's Global 100 list has become a mark of distinction for identifyingpromising new companies and entrepreneurs. Red Herring editors were among thefirst to recognize that companies such as Google, Yahoo, Skype, Netscape,Salesforce.com, YouTube, and eBay would change the way we live and work."We were thrilled to win the Red Herring Top 100 Europe award last year, butwinning the Red Herring Global 100 award takes Napatech into a unique league ofa few global innovative Companies", said Henrik Brill Jensen, CEO of Napatech."We are very proud to receive this prestigious award and will use it as aninspiration to strive to reach the high standards and success achieved byprevious renowned winners". "Northzone have supported Napatech since its infancy in 2003, and wecongratulate the team with the award. They have strategic talent, are workingvery hard and they have succeeded - they deserve it", said Gregers Kronborg,board member and general partner in Northzone Ventures. "For us as ventureinvestor such prestigious award to a portfolio company is very important. Itproves to our investors that we can spot promising companies - even earlier thanRed Herring - and develop the potential into very valuable businesses, and itproves to future entrepreneurs that Northzone is one of the best ventureinvestors they can have."Red Herring's editorial staff evaluated the companies on both quantitative andqualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation,management quality, strategy, and market penetration. This assessment ofpotential is complemented by a review of the track record and standing ofstartups relative to their sector peers, allowing Red Herring to see past the"buzz" and make the list an invaluable instrument of discovery and advocacy forthe greatest business opportunities from around the world.About: NapatechNapatech is a leading OEM supplier of multi-port 10 GbE and 1 GbE intelligentadapters for real-time network analysis with over 50,000 Ethernet portsdeployed. Napatech network adapters provide real-time packet capture andtransmission with full line-rate throughput and zero packet loss no matter thepacket size. Intelligent features enable off-load of data traffic processing andpacket analysis normally performed in the CPU. This results in more processingpower for the network monitoring, analysis, management, test, measurement,security or optimization application being supported. Napatech has sales,marketing and R&D offices in Mountain View, California, Andover, Massachusetts,and Copenhagen, Denmark. About: Northzone VenturesNorthzone is a European Venture Capital Partnership with a Nordic stronghold.With eight dedicated partners in Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen - most of whomare themselves former successful, serial entrepreneurs, we work round the clockto help our portfolio companies grab whatever world market they are after. Wehave been around since 1994, raised and managed 5 different funds withconsistent top-tier returns and currently manage EUR 355 million. Among ourprevious investments, we are especially proud of Lastminute, Stepstone,Pricerunner and NextGenTel.For yderligere information bes?erne: www.northzone.com
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