This year’s Top 25 Up and Comers once again come from a variety of IT segments and provinces. These young companies have differentiated themselves by creating innovative products and services in interesting fields of information technology. This Top 25 list is not a ranking of companies based on revenue; rather, it is a listing of companies Branham Group believes could be the next who’s who in the Canadian sector.

This year’s Up and Comers provide unique solutions. The hardware companies include hardware acceleration specialists, video processing firms and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) solutions manufacturers.

The software makers on this year’s list specialize in many technologies and vertical markets, such as airline information systems, oil and gas, water and climate, VoIP, medical systems and search engine technologies. Health care, security, infrastructure and planning were trends also seen amongst this year’s Up and Comers.

From a geographic perspective, the list has changed since last year, when Ontario companies comprised 76 per cent of the Top 25 Up and Comers. This year they come in at 44 per cent, indicating a more diverse national composition. We now see more companies from Quebec, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and the Northwest Territories appearing on the list. British Columbian companies comprise 12 per cent of the list this year (down from 16 per cent last year), and Alberta’s young companies constitute another 12 per cent (up from four per cent last year).

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