Dacadoo and Nexthink nominated as Finalists for the 2014 Red Herring Global Top 100 Award

The Red Herring editorial team selected the companies demonstrating innovative technologies and business models originating from over 1,000 companies from more than 40 nations. These companies, representing past Red Herring Asia, Europe and North America awards, are judged on a range of qualitative and quantitative metrics, including but not limited to, technology innovation, financial performance, growth criterion, management's execution standards, potential globalization of the strategy, and market share improvement.

Two Swiss start-ups are on the Red Herring Global Top 100 shortlist for 2014: dacadoo and Nexthink.

The mobile health and lifestyle company dacadoo offers a comprehensive health promotion and lifestyle navigation solution that enables people to track and benchmark health and well-being in an easy and fun way. It uses a Health Score from 1 to 1,000 to visualize health and well-being of a person in real-time. The scientifically calculated number works as an indicator and moves up or down, depending on how body values, emotional wellbeing, and activities (exercise, nutrition, stress and sleep) change. To keep people engaged, dacadoo uses gamification, social & collaborative techniques as well as personalized feedback.

After having been selected as one of the winners of the European contest of the Red Herring Top 100 Europe Award 2014 in Amsterdam in April 2014, dacadoo today announced that it has now also been selected as a finalist for Red Herring's 2014 Top 100 Global award, a prestigious recognition on a global scale.

“Technology companies are becoming the bright spot in the economic outlook based on their increasing role within macro-economic environments,” stated Alex Vieux, Red Herring chairman. Peter Ohnemus, founder and CEO of dacadoo commented: “We’re honored and proud to be selected among the top 100 companies from around the world for this prestigious Global Red Herring Award.”

Nexthink is the innovator of End-user IT Analytics for security, ITSM and transformation. Our software uniquely provides enterprise-wide, real-time: analytics covering all endpoints, users, applications and network connections; and visualization of IT infrastructure and service delivery. Nexthink helps IT departments connect, communicate and collaborate to achieve their major goals and to optimize endpoint security, operations, support and workplace transformation projects. Nexthink’s real-time analytics and visualization extend help desk, server monitoring, APM (application performance management) and PCLM (PC lifecycle management) tools and provide essential visibility for IT governance.

Nexthink serves the Global 5000 utilizing a leveraged partner model. Nexthink is a private company headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland.

The Top 100 winners will be announced at a special awards ceremony in Los Angeles on November 20th, 2014.

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