MCLEAN, VA – On a hot and humid Wednesday night, the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) celebrated the efforts of the region’s entrepreneurial companies at the NVTC Hot Ticket Awards Party.
The event, held poolside at the McLean home of NVTC President & CEO Bobbie Kilberg, was well attended by over 500 local technology entrepreneurs and business leaders who packed the pool side bars and networked prior to the awards announcements.
Winners were announced at the party in the categories of “Hottest Bootstrap,” “Hottest Buzz,” “Hottest Exit,” “Hottest Management Team” and “Hottest Venture Capital Deal.”
Columbia, Maryland-based Sourcefire was the Hall of Fame Award category winner.
The Hottest Bootstrap award went to Reston’s Network Alliance, with other nominees including Excitations, LanceSoft, Mobile Posse and Rollstream.
Athena Technologies took home the Hottest Buzz category top prize, with other nominees including Clearspring Technologies, Command Information, GetWellNetwork and Platinum Solutions.
The Hottest Exit award was won by Network Solutions, which was bought for $20 million in 2003 and just sold for $800 million, representing a nice 35x return for its 2003 investors.
Other candidates in the category included Finetre Corporation, Liquidity Services, Mobile 365 and Sourcefire.
Gaithersburg, Maryland-based BroadSoft won the Hottest Management Team award, edging out Approva, Digital Bridge, Managed Objects, RealOps and SkyBitz.
The final award of the night went to Vienna, VA-based, Parature for Hottest Venture Capital deal. Parature closed a $13.5 Million Series A deal in 2006 led by Valhalla Partners and Sierra Ventures. Other candidates in the category included Arxan Technologies, Freewebs, Global Logic and Harmony Information Systems.
Sponsors of the event included DLA Piper, CTPartners, Bowne Financial Communications, Principal Financial Group and Media Sponsors Bisnow on Business, Potomac Tech Wire, TechJournal South and the Washington Business Journal.
The Northern Virginia Technology Council is the membership and trade association for the technology community in Northern Virginia and is the largest technology council in the nation.
For more information visit: www.nvtc.org
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