MIAMI, FL / ACCESSWIRE / May 19, 2016 / Listar, an innovative social commerce platform, today announced it has been selected as a finalist for Red Herring's Top 100 North America award, a prestigious list honoring the year's most promising private technology companies in North America.
The Top 100 North America award is given by Red Herring Magazine, which has been selecting the most exciting and promising start-up companies since 1995. Finalists are evaluated individually from a large pool of hundreds of candidates based across North America. Listar was selected based on twenty major criteria which includes, among others: the company's addressable market size, its intellectual property, proof of concept, trailing revenues and management's expertise. The list of finalists includes some of the best performing and prominent companies of that year. Previous winners include companies; such as, LinkedIn (NASDAQ: LNKD) and Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA).
"The finalists confirm the excellent foresight and strong innovations created by entrepreneurs in North America. By all measures, the remarkable group of companies comprising the Top 100 finalists underline the region's constant drive to innovate," said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring.
Founded by Venezuelan-born entrepreneur Simon Vielma, Listar provides a platform for people to make money by sharing shoppable content through personalized spaces called hubs.
"We're honored to be named a finalist in the Red Herring Top 100 North America Award," said Simon Vielma, founder and President of Listar. "This acknowledgement is a testament to our rapid growth, which helped drive more than $15 million in e-commerce revenue for our partners in 2015, and demonstrates our team's commitment to making Listar the leading engine in powering content-driven commerce."
Finalists are asked to present their winning strategies at the Red Herring North America Forum in Newport Beach, CA., June 6 to 8, 2016 followed by a special awards ceremony the evening of June 8.
About Listar
Listar is a leading-edge social commerce platform that connects individual content creators to passionate audiences across various shopping and lifestyle categories. Users are empowered to create and share shoppable content through topic-focused hubs. The platform's built-in monetization technology makes it easy for contributors to earn income by publishing transactional media. In addition, consumers use Listar to search and compare prices on millions of products from more than 30,000 different merchants. The company is based in Miami, FL.
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