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Red Herring Magazine 66 22 24 red herring Special Edition Volume 3 CONTENTS 42 this issue 7 Editor’s Note 8 Top 100 Companies: Europe The 100 most promising startups in Europe 26 Top 100 Companies: Asia 38 Cover Interview Qualys CEO Phillipe Courtot 48 Top 100 Companies: North America 4 RED HERRING | SPECIAL EDITION Red Herring Magazine top 100 awards In this issue the Red Herring Top 100 awards highlights the most exciting startups from Europe, North America and Asia. Hundreds of companies from each region were reviewed in a rigorous 3-step process. 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From the time of the pyramids to few could have expected: old industries are The nomenclature was convenient because Leonardo da Vinci, building always ended being replaced at such a pace that within advanced countries featured more services with a bricklayer and some mortar, but the next ten years, only a handful of the while the third world was centered around even that is changing. past leading companies will transcend the rural output, with lesser capital to drive times. The technology sector obsoleted growth. It took less than 25 years, just a blip In fact, every sector is under siege. Digital billion dollar companies in the blink of in our world history, to wreck the model transformation, a fashionable seminar an eye. It is now signaling mandatory and substitute a new formula. topic, has already dwarfed traditional retirement to trillion dollar sectors. sectors. Disruptors, mostly startups, are Technology has disrupted most traditional capturing the differential value creation. Not all startups have the capacity to industries and is accelerating the redesign Companies are exploding overnight, based challenge incumbents. But those who of sectors at such a pace that global leaders, on shifting the focus from old fashioned can, such as Docusign and Dropbox and governments and the general press are well-run companies to upstarts which are others, are claiming huge restructuring overwhelmed. Even worse, their analysis redefining the metrics and the speed of within society. Old habits die hard, but rings hollow for they are based on past change. now they die faster than ever. A new world models, rather than current ones. is emerging in front of us. It is bringing Red Herring is witnessing these mini- a message of ineluctable change that we Let us take a couple of examples which revolutions one after the other, from the must embrace. That is the reason why, year are often highlighted by research from front row. Transversal technologies such after year, in spite of all adverse factors, CB Insights and other publications. First, as AI and blockchain are embedded into Red Herring continues to highlight these agritech, which now features companies a myriad of verticals. Each industry, from transformers in its Red Herring Top 100 enabling a longer life for fruit and insurance to banking, wellness, retail, Special Issue. vegetables, among other innovations. manufacturing or logistics, is turned upside down with new entrants recomposing The elimination of waste and the the landscape overnight. For the speed of monetization of agricultural output do change has never been so intricately mixed not only imply a transformation within with the disruption itself. the food chain, but also a rebalancing of the relationship between suppliers and Since 1993, a number of household names Alex Vieux, Western buyers. Also, take construction, have gone through the Red Herring Top 100 Editor-in-Chief and Publisher www.REDHERRING.com 7 Top 100 Companies: Europe Europe: A-Z Andrew Alliance Nomos System AG AppSpotr Obiz Concept ArangoDB Omniflow, SA Argus Cyber Security Peaksel AudienceProject QualySense Avangate Salestools.io Bambwa AB Scoota BestMile SearchInk Betalo AB SeedLegals BioCatch SHERPA BoardMaps Simpleweb Brandura International Smappee Business-Insight SnapShot ByNoGame Online Games Social Party Inc. Cablato Splitit Calldorado ApS SpotMe Calyos Stormshield Cedato Stryking Entertainment GmbH CensorNet SwipeStox GmbH Chirp.io Talentsoft Collaborative Recycling Tappx connected-health.eu GmbH TasteHit CoScale The CoSMo Company Darktrace The Floow Limited Delair-Tech Thermosome Deposit Solutions GmbH TIPA-Corp Devialet Tradelab Disk Archive Corporation Ltd. 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