Intelen
group was selected / shortlisted as candidate of
the most advanced and Innovative TOP-100 technological
companies in Europe from Red Herring USA and finally
WAS AWARDED the Red-herring PRIZE for one of the
top-100 Most innovative company in EUROPE !
Intelen
announced today it has been selected as a finalist
for Red Herring's Europe 100 award, a prestigious
list honoring the year’s most promising private
technology ventures from the world European business
region. The Red Herring editorial team selected
the most innovative companies from a pool of hundreds
from across Europe.
You can see the official shortlist
HERE
YOU CAN SEE THE TOP-100
Europe WINNERS
2010 HERE
You can download the official
Red
Herring - Intelen Press Release HERE
The nominees are evaluated
on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such
as financial performance, technology innovation,
quality of management, execution of strategy, and
integration into their respective industries.
This unique assessment of
potential is complemented by a review of the actual
track record and standing of a company, which allows
Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and
make the list an invaluable instrument for discovering
and advocating the greatest business opportunities
in the industry.
"This
year was especially difficult," said Alex
Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. "Despite
the global economic situation, there were many great
companies producing really innovative and amazing
products that we had a difficult time narrowing
the pool and selecting the finalists. Intelen shows
great promise therefore deserves to be among the
Finalists. Now we’re faced with the difficult
task of selecting the Top 100 winners of Red Herring
Europe award. We know that this year’s crop
will grow into some amazing companies that are sure
to go far."
“This
is one of the biggest achievements we’ve ever
had as a start-up company and gives us the strength
and the potential to continue creating and innovating
in this difficult financial period. We have many
ideas and ways of converting innovation to a cash
cow, so we will continue to innovate and create
advanced digital energy services and products, based
on Web 2.0 / 3.0 and adaptive social networking”
said Vassilis Nikolopoulos, founder and CEO of Intelen.
Finalists
for the 2010 edition of the Red Herring 100 Europe
award are selected based upon their technological
innovation, management strength, market size, investor
record, customer acquisition, and financial health.
During the several months leading up to the announcement,
hundreds of companies in the telecommunications,
security, Web 2.0, software, hardware, biotech,
and clean tech industries sent in their submissions
to qualify for the award.
The Finalists are invited
to present their winning strategies at the Red Herring
Europe Conference in Paris, May 25-27, 2010. The
Top 100 winners will be announced at a special awards
ceremony on May 27 at the event.
Intelen is
the leading research and business group in Greece,
dealing with Energy ICT, Smart Metering and Web
2.0 / 3.0 apps in the energy and services domain.
It is considered
as a National leading group and Energy ICT Services
Company in applied research and application of modern
IT, Internet Technologies and advanced Algorithms
to the Energy and IT sector (Energy Information
Systems and Services). The group consists of young
ambitious scientists and engineers and the basic
objective is to promote technological research,
creative thinking and perception bind with technological
innovation in a national and global level.
The group
has already won national and European level prizes
(OTENET Innovation Award 2006, TOP-5 ALBA in Green
Entrepreneurship 2008, presented to the Innovation
Academy Microsoft 2008, members of EU Innovation
Academy i-techpartner, Best New researchers in Greece
2007 from STATUS Magazine, Shortlisted as finalists
for the best TOP-100 tech startups worldwide by
Guidewire Group USA) with several Patents in algorithms
and energy knowledge management and publications
in conferences and journal papers.
