Award Winners 2008

Changing Times Award Winner

QlikTech, founded in 1993, originally began as a consulting company and later moved into the business intelligence space. Its offices were established in Lund, Sweden at Science Park Ideon which is among the oldest of science parks in the world. QlikTech developed a tool for analyzing multi-dimensional data for a client and then, based on this tool, developed QlikView, named after a point-and-click-simple way to view data and information and based on their patented in-memory associative technology, which is the company's main competitive advantage in the market. The first version was 3.15 and was launched in 1997 for PCs. This was after multiple attempts for patents. The company had a solid but slow growing pattern early on but eventually by 2004 had 1500 customers across the world.

Being considered a successful Swedish company was their first win but the company recognized that expanding to a global scale would require additional capital. QlikTech decided to go global and received investments from Accel Partners and Jerusalem Venture Partners. The company now has 400,000 users in 83 countries and over 13,000 customers, and are adding an average of 13 customers per day.
 

Changing Times Award Special MedTech Prize

CoreValve's mission is to develop and commercialize products that provide an alternative to heart valve replacement surgery. Since the early 1960's, valve replacement surgery has extended the lives of people with failing aortic heart valves. Unfortunately, valve replacement surgery currently requires accessing the chest and opening the heart. Many patients are simply too ill to be considered as candidates for this type of invasive surgery. Working with leading interventional cardiologists and heart surgeons, CoreValve has developed a proprietary system which permits aortic valve replacement on a beating heart in a procedure performed entirely in the cardiac catheterization laboratory. This new technology aims to completely eliminate the need for open-chest surgery and any form of cardiac support during the aortic valve replacement procedure. These advances are expected to make heart valve replacement available to patients previously ineligible for this life-saving therapy.
 

Changing Times Next Gem Award

Alfresco is the leading open source enterprise content management system built by the most experienced team in the industry drawn from Documentum, Vignette and Interwoven. Twenty years of experience drove us to believe that the Enterprise Content Management industry was driven by high cost, high complexity and lack of customer control. For these reasons the vast majority of people do not use ECM systems but instead work with shared drives and email to create, share and store content.
 

Challengers 2008