My latest startup, ActiveConversion has just been nominated by Deloitte Touche for the Companies-to-Watch category for the Deloitte Tech Fast 50 awards. This honors younger, promising Canadian tech companies that have been in business for less than 5 years. This is rather surprising for us because we just applied for it for the first time. Many of our fellow nominees are funded and have excellent management teams. We are one of only 44 companies in Canada to be selected for this category, and will get interviewed to be considered for winning.

Just to be considered for this prestigious award, from the hundreds of tech companies that have submitted in Canada is flattering, and the entire team here is thrilled and deserves credit.

Deloitte’s Fast 50 Awards in general are based on revenue moreso than the concept, although you have to have intellectual property (like software), generating a significant part of your revenues. Previous top 50 companies have included great companies like Research in Motion (Blackberry), Replicon, Elluminate, Workbrain, Eloqua, March Networks and Solium Capital. The list goes on with too many to mention.

In some ways, I’m not surprised we were selected. Since starting our marketing campaigns, we have been getting a steady stream of interested new prospects that we’re having trouble keeping up with. There are B2B companies from around the world that want to generate more qualified leads from their existing marketing, and there are even a lot of companies that want to qualify leads, because they get so many.

We solve these problems and more, and this resonates with sales and marketing executives. Our tag line is ‘Marketing Intelligence for Sales’ sums it up, once they see how automated sales intelligence can give sales teams actionable information.

Look for more good things from us in the future!