Some good news swept across New Jersey this past week when Deloitte published its annual tech ranking showing that ten New Jersey companies were in its 2021 North America Technology Fast 500. Now in its 27th year the ranking by the global advisory and consulting firm honors the most innovative and fastest-growing public and private technology companies located in North America.
New Jersey shines with 10 ranked companies with personalized mobile messaging platform Attentive at #3. Founded in 2016 by Andrew Jones, Brian Long, and Ethan Lo, the company had a 49,155% increase in revenue based on percentage fiscal-year growth over a three-year period. Based in Hoboken, the company is part of the growing tech ecosystem along the Hudson River that encompasses Jersey City, Hoboken and Weehawken.
“We are thrilled to be recognized by Deloitte for the company’s growth, all driven by our customers, partners, team and their collective passion to build a platform to change how brands interact with consumers,” said Brian Long, CEO and co-founder of Attentive. “As a marketing solution that so many brands rely on, we will continue to reinvent business-to-consumer communication and commerce for the mobile age, through personalization and frictionless, conversational experiences.”
The full list of New Jersey companies and their CEOs are:
#3 Attentive Software/SaaS 49,155% Hoboken Brian Long
#62 Semperis Software/SaaS 2,723% Hoboken Mickey Bresman
#17 Avidon Health Software/SaaS 1,157% Cranford Clark Lagemann
#162 OwnBackup Software/SaaS 837% Englewood Cliffs Sam Gutmann
#264 Visual Lease Software/SaaS 493% Woodbridge Marc Betesh
#308 EmpiRx Health Bio/pharmaceutical 403% Montvale Karthik Ganesh
#397Mentour Corp. Software/SaaS 291% Edison Sumanth Neelam
#388 AccuTitle Software 299% Ship Bottom Bill Bartzak
#395 Fusion Health Software/SaaS 292% Woodbridge Bryan Jakovcic
#474 CareCloud Software/SaaS 230% Somerset A. Hadi Chaudhry
The ranking is based on submitted applications and public company database research. It recognizes the passion and dedication that is needed to be an industry disruptor. The broadly shared list gives companies visibility, brand recognition, and growth opportunities.
The tri-state area (New York, New Jersey and Connecticut) was second with 12% to Silicon Valley’s 21% of percentage of the list. Software & SaaS dominated the list by industry with 73% with Biotechnology/Pharmaceutical with 14%.
The NJ companies in the Deloitte North America Technology Fast and the full list is available here.
