Barcelona and Stockholm – 10 October 2011 – Appear, the enterprise mobile software specialist, was announced today as a Longhorn winner of the 2011 Bully Award honouring Europe’s leading technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) companies as presented by White Bull Summits, champions of the European innovation ecosystem.
A total of 60 European companies were named as finalists for the 2011 Bully Award, and the deserving winners were selected from a pool of entries that included hundreds of nominated European TMT companies.
The winners fall into three categories:
. Yearlings: firms that seek or have received angel/seed rounds or equivalent; classic start-ups
. Young Bulls: firms that seek or have received Series A financing; early stage companies
. Longhorns: post Series A firms; growth stage companies
"The Bully Award winners were selected for innovation and values of excellence in the TMT sector. They have been recognized as a leader in their field, with a bright business proposition and meaningful market strategies, driven by a rich understanding of customer needs and technological solutions,” stated Farley Duvall, Founder and Chairman of White Bull Summits.
”We are very excited to be named a 2011 Bully Award winner, and to be recognized as one of the leading TMT companies in Europe,” stated Xavier Aubry, CEO Appear ”The enterprise mobile ecosystem is growing at an outstanding pace, and with ten years of experience connecting complex ERP systems to mobile devices for global customers, we are ideally positioned to reap the benefits of the ongoing enterprise smartphone revolution.”
Appear develops a Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP) deployed by large corporations such as Netherlands Railway or SITA to connect their field workforce in real-time to business-critical corporate systems. Appear’s vision is to leverage user context in order to ensure mobile users have exactly the information they need, when and where they need it. Appear is constantly innovating in fields such as human-machine interfaces, machine-to-machine communication, context-aware computing and cross-platform mobile infrastructures, in order to support the next generation of smart devices and smart objects.
”The White Bull judges very carefully reviewed seed-stage, early-stage and growth-stage companies, and selected the winning companies they believe have demonstrated clear potential for further growth and a high probability for exit in the next few years,” added Duvall.
White Bull has a successful track record in identifying Europe’s leading TMT companies. Eight of the 2010 Bully Award winners identified by White Bull were acquired in the past year including BuyVIP (acquired by Amazon), JayCut (acquired by RIM), Q-go (acquired by RightNow Technologies), Severa Corp (acquired by Visma Group), SunglassesShop.com (acquired by Glasses Direct), Ubitexx (acquired by RIM), Vilant Systems Oy (merged RFID activities with Swisscom Auto-ID Services AG), and WatchMouse (acquired by CA Technologies).
For a complete list of the 2011 White Bull Bully Award winners, please visit [u]<a href="http://www.whitebull.com/latest">www.whitebull.com/latest</a>[/u].
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