Award Recognizes the 100 “Most Promising” Companies Driving the Future of Technology
SEATTLE — April 6, 2007 — Attenex Corp., a leading e-discovery software provider, today announced that it is a finalist for the Red Herring 100 Award, a selection of the 100 private companies based in North America that play a leading role in innovation and technology. The annual award, selected by Red Herring’s editorial board, is recognized among technology industry executives and investors as an influential predictor of technology companies that will lead the next wave of disruption and innovation.
“We can see the exciting evolution of the technology sector reflected in the quality and variety of exceptional companies that we had to choose from in putting our list together," said Joel Dreyfuss, editor-in-chief of Red Herring. "It was tough to choose just 200 finalists from such a large list of excellent contenders, and we are very happy with the qualities of the companies we selected as finalists."
The Red Herring editorial board diligently surveyed the entrepreneurial scene throughout the North American region and identified the top 200 out of more than 800 closely evaluated companies that are leading the next wave of innovation.
“We’re tremendously honored to be a finalist in Red Herring’s ‘most promising’ company award,” said Kimra Hawley, CEO of Attenex. “E-discovery is a growing concern for Fortune 500 corporations due to litigation, regulation and investigations, and with our software we’ve really focused on helping corporations and their law firms take control of the e-discovery process. It’s a very exciting time for our company and this award is great validation of our software and our strategy.”
Attenex offers the Attenex® Patterns® E-Discovery Platform, a technical foundation on which corporations can integrate e-discovery into their overall data management strategy and keep control of the e-discovery process, even when discrete steps in the process are outsourced to law firms or service providers. The company’s patented and industry-leading technology helps corporate legal departments more cost-effectively and accurately manage the complete e-discovery process. The Attenex Patterns open Application Programming Interface (API) and software development kit (SDK) enable corporations to easily integrate Attenex Patterns with other applications as well as automate the loading of data, reducing time, expense and risk in the process. Current Attenex Patterns corporate customers are reducing their cost of e-discovery while integrating the application with leading network storage, email archiving software and enterprise content management (ECM) offerings.
The winning 100 companies will be announced at the Red Herring Spring event. The CEOs of the winners will present their innovative ideas and technologies to an audience of leading entrepreneurs, financiers and corporate strategists at the event in Monterey, California, on May 1-3 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. This year’s Red Herring 100 Spring event marks the 10th anniversary of the Red Herring 100 Awards. In celebration, the event will feature keynote addresses from legendary VC investors and CEOs of leading Internet, information, and communications companies. Request your invitation at:http://www.herringevents.com/spring07/index.html.
About Attenex
Attenex Corp. is changing the way corporations manage e-discovery. With an open software platform and industry expertise, Attenex enables corporations and their law firms to establish standardized e-discovery processes that reduce the risk, complexity and cost of litigation, regulatory requests and internal investigations. Whether deployed on-premise or as a hosted service through the industry’s largest network of global service providers, Attenex® Patterns® software provides corporations with control of e-discovery and the flexibility to choose the best solution for their needs. Attenex is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and more information is available at www.attenex.com.
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 on the Internet at www.redherring.com.