NVTC fetes annual Hot Ticket award winners

Winners of the 11th Annual Northern Virginia Technology Council’s Hot Ticket Awards, honoring the Washington region’s best and brightest entrepreneurial technology companies, were announced Tuesday evening at a gathering of more than 500 members of the area tech community at the home of NVTC President and CEO Bobbie Kilberg.

The category winners and finalists were:

Hottest Bootstrap (sponsored by JP Morgan Chase)

• Winner: CFN Services Inc.
• 9Lenses
• Five 9 Group Inc.
• Sentrana Inc.

Hottest Buzz (sponsored by Welz & Weisel Communications)

• Winner: Sonatype
• Appian
• Deltek
• Invincea Inc.
• MicroTech

Hottest Company Culture (sponsored by Invertix Corporation)

• Winner: GetWellNetwork Inc.
• 2tor Inc.
• CustomInk
• Praescient Analytics
• Vocus

Hottest Emerging Government Contractor (sponsored by Transformation Systems Inc.)

• Winner: Near Infinity Corp.
• AirWatch
• Berico Technologies
• Blue Canopy
• Three Wire Systems LLC

Hottest Exit (sponsored by BB&T Capital Markets | Windsor Group)

• Winner: AppAssure Software
• Condaptive
• Micromet
• Millennial Media
• Webs Inc.

Hottest Management Team (sponsored by AH&T Insurance)

• Winner: BroadSoft
• Appian
• CoStar Group
• Deltek
• GetWellNetwork Inc.

Hottest Startup (sponsored by Virtacore)

• Winner: Lemur IMS
• 9Lenses
• Activity Rocket LLC
• EmployInsight
• timeRAZOR Inc.

Hottest Venture Capital Deal (sponsored by NetLink Resource Group)

• Winner: newBrandAnalytics
• 2tor Inc.
• Echo360 Inc.
• Fixmo
• Resonate
• Virtustream