{"id":7962,"date":"2018-01-05T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=7962"},"modified":"2017-11-19T18:24:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T02:24:06","slug":"technology-hotspots-software-dominates-top-new-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/technology-hotspots-software-dominates-top-new-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology Hotspots: Software Dominates Top New Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Software is eating the world,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/SB10001424053111903480904576512250915629460\">wrote\u00a0Marc Andreessen in 2011<\/a> in an essay for the WSJ.<\/p>\n<p>A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.deloitte.com\/us\/en\/pages\/technology-media-and-telecommunications\/topics\/north-america-technology-fast-500.html\">survey of top technology startups by Deloitte<\/a> confirms Andreessen&#8217;s assessment. The survey found that for the 22nd consecutive year that the list of fastest growing technology companies were software companies. This finding also reinforces the declaration in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/techonomy\/2011\/11\/30\/now-every-company-is-a-software-company\/#1384380df3b1\">an article by Forbes<\/a> also in 2011 that &#8220;all companies are software companies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Seven of Deloitte&#8217;s top 500 list were software companies:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/classpass.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ClassPass,<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pos.toasttab.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Toast<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/liftoff.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Liftoff<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/salesloft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SalesLoft<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shiphawk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ShipHawk<\/a>, \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispot.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">iSpot.tv<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cylance.com\/en_us\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cylance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The ranking is as follows:<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\"><b>2017 Rank<\/b><\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\"><b>Company<\/b><\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\"><b>Sector<\/b><\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\"><b>Revenue Growth<br \/>\n(2013 to 2016)<\/b><\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\"><b>City, State<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">1<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">Donuts Inc.<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">Communications\/networking<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">59,093 percent<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">Kirkland, Washington<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">2<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">ClassPass Inc.<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">Software<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">46,556 percent<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">New York, New York<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">3<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">Toast<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">Software<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">31,250 percent<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">Boston, Massachusetts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">4<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">Aratana Therapeutics, Inc.<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">Biotechnology\/pharmaceutical<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">31,242 percent<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">Leawood, Kansas<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">5<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">Theravance Biopharma US, Inc.<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">Biotechnology\/pharmaceutical<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">21,426 percent<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">South San Francisco, California<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">6<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">Liftoff<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">Software<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">16,981 percent<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">Palo Alto, California<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">7<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">SalesLoft<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">Software<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">13,759 percent<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">Atlanta, Georgia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">8<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">ShipHawk<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">Software<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">13,638 percent<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">Santa Barbara, California<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">9<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">iSpot.tv<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">Software<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">13,323 percent<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">Bellevue, Washington<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">10<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">Cylance Inc.<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">Software<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">13,057 percent<\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" height=\"10\">Irvine, California<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"lightsocial_container\"><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Ftechnology-hotspots-software-dominates-top-new-technology%2F&amp;title=\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/digg.png\" alt=\"Digg This\" title=\"Digg This\" \/><\/a><\/div><div 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