Looking for Companies
Best of
Deloitte has a various "Fast" lists based on revenue growth
Here is the page with an historic list of winner
AlwaysOn has Top Private and industry specific Top Media and Top Green Tech lists
(SilverSpring Network's list of partners is a good overview of companies in the Smart Grid space)
Red Herring has various Top 100 Lists
Fortune Magazine Lists - are some of the best around including Best Companies to Work For, Top Private, etc
Codie Awards recognize excellence in different technology industries
Momentum Index Top 100 Start-ups
JMP Securities Hot 100 List (full list doesn't seem to be published any where)l
A Few Specific 2011/12 Best of Lists
Always On 2012 Top 100 Private Companies
Always On Global 250 2011
Codie Awards for 2012
Forbes 2011 America's Most Promising Companies
San Francisco Business Journal 2011 Fastest Growing Bay Area Private Companies 100
San Jose Business Times 2011 Fastest Growing Private 100
CRN Emerging Vendors 2011
Red Herring Top 100 2011 North America
Fortune 2011 Fastest Growing Companies
WSJ Top 50 Venture-Funded Companies 2011
Here are some older "best of" lists:
CNN/Money/Business 2.0 has Fastest Growing Company Lists
Fast Company has the Fast 50 list of the world's most innovative companies
Tech Crunch 50 was a good list of new, growing companies
Recently Funded:
Each quarter San Jose Mercury News publishes a list of recently funded Bay Area companies
List here and twitter feed of updates from new additions / new funding from 150+ VC websites
Crunchbase's recently funded companies
MoneyTree publishes searchable list (requires registration and public access only to only most recent quarter)
Search for
Crunchbase is always the place I go first.
VentureBeat Profiles is the best place for "information about cool startups"
LinkedIn also generates company information
KillerStartups is another list of startups
LinkSV (Silicon Valley only) list people and investors.
Crunchvision is a map of Crunchbase companies. WayFaring is another map only SF Bay Area (and out-of-date?).
Inc5000 is a great searchable list for established private companies
including SF/East Bay and South Bay specific lists
Rich's NorCal is a comprehensive but often out of date resource
You can get more access if you go through the San Jose Library portal (need library card)
Hoovers is another good source (with some free and some premium content requiring subscription or purchase)
Software 500 top 500 software companies by revenue in Software Magazine (requires login)
