Deloitte Technology Fast500 EMEA 2014 Winners are announced!
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Now in its 14th year, the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 TM program ranks the fastest growing public and private technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, and clean technology companies from over 20 countries in the EMEA region, based on percentage revenue growth over a five-year period.

With over 37,000 event organisers already using its services, WEEZEVENT is an online event ticketing solution in France, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium and Québec, offering event organisers a simple and seamless online platform to create their event ticket requirements. Over the last five years, WEEZEVENT has registered revenue growth of an astounding 43,202 percent

David Halstead, Deloitte UK partner and partner-in-charge of the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 TM EMEA programme commented, “All 500 companies are impressive organisations. Achieving a ranking on this year’s list proves their commitment and drive to grow innovative companies—a difficult feat in the competitive and fast-moving technology environment. I would like to congratulate the top company, WEEZEVENT, and commend their team for such impressive growth over the last five years.”

WEEZEVENT Co-Founder and CEO Pierre-Henri Deballon stated: “WEEZEVENT is not just about the technology, we take great pride in offering our clients the best, global service. We have come a long way from our humble beginnings in 2008, steadily increasing in growth every year, and will continue to look forward, building an environment that is conducive to innovation, allowing us to create compelling and practical solutions for our customers and partners.”

Top 10 ranked companies 2014.

Ranking Company Country Five-year revenue growth Sector
1 WEEZEVENT
www.weezevent.com
France 43202% Media/Entertainment
2 Taboola
www.taboola.com
Israel 42048% Internet
3 Superfish
www.superfish.com
Israel 37102% Internet
4 Valens
www.valens.com
Israel 33244% Semiconductor, Components and Electronics
5 Goodgame Studios / Altigi GmbH
www.goodgamestudios.com
Germany 28327% Internet
6 Widespace
www.widespace.com/sv/
Sweden 27930% Software
7 Hiro Media
www.hiro-media.com
Israel 22219% Internet
8 Celeno Communications
www.celeno.com
Israel 17773% Semiconductor, Components and Electronics
9 CeGaT GmbH
www.cegat.de
Germany 15897% Biotech/Pharmaceutical/Medical Equipment
10 DOLPHIN GROUP ASA
www.myheritage.com
Croatia 14331% Software

Geographic trends

Overall, France remains the most represented country for a fourth consecutive year, followed by the United Kingdom and Sweden. Israeli companies comprise five of the top ten fastest growing technology companies on the list, representing a variety of backgrounds, including visual search company, Superfish, in third place and HDBaseT solutions provider, Valens, in fourth place.

Top 10 represented countries # of 2014 winning submissions # of 2013 winning submissions # of 2012 winning submissions
1 France 86 86 90
2 United Kingdom 67 71 74
3 Sweden 45 50 55
4 Netherlands 42 52 46
4 Norway 42 41 52
5 Turkey 36 30 29
6 Germany 32 28 24
7 Finland 24 27 27
8 Israel 22 20 14
9 Belgium 18 n/a n/a
10  Poland 15 17 21

Sector trends

The software sector represented 42 percent of the overall rankings on this year’s Fast 500, followed by the Internet sector with 21 percent. Rounding out the sector list was telecommunications / Networking (13 percent), Semiconductors/Components/Electronics (7 percent), Biotech / Pharmaceutical / Medical Equipment (7 percent), Greentech (5 percent), Media/Entertainment (3 percent), and Computers/Peripherals (2 percent).

The sector winners 2014

Overall ranking Country Company Five-year revenue growth Sector
1 France WEEZEVENT 43202% Media/Entertainment
2 Israel Taboola 42048% Internet
4 Israel Valens 33244% Semiconductor, Components and Electronics
6 Sweden Widespace 27930% Software
9 Germany CeGaT GmbH 15897% Biotech/Pharmaceutical/Medical Equipment
12 France ENERGIE PERSPECTIVE 10675% Greentech
22 The Netherlands Belsimpel.nl 5173% Telecommunications/Networking
58 France MYFOX 2524% Computers/Peripherals

To see the list of Turkish winner companies, please click here.