Posted on August 25th, 2009 in
uTest by Jennifer Moebius
With a GREAT first year behind us (thanks for all the birthday wishes), we’re looking ahead to what’s next! To kick things off, uTest has been nominated for the Forrester Groundswell Award in the “B2B – Embracing” category.
Stemming from the bestselling book groundswell by Forrester analysts Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, the Groundswell Awards recognize the year’s most innovative social platforms.
With uTest’s recent website relaunch and the addition of community-centric apps (like “Meet the Testers”), discussion threads, forums, and social networking sites, we think we have a good shot, but we need your support.
See the full submission here for a quick refresher on our latest social technologies: http://www.utest.com/my-forrester-groundswell-award.
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Posted on July 29th, 2009 in
uTest by Matt Johnston
Busy couple of days at the AlwaysOn event (#aoss09) in Palo Alto, CA…
As previously mentioned, we were named to the AlwaysOn Global 250 list of emerging private companies. Well, at last night’s ceremony, they officially recognized the list, and we were named the overall winner in the “SaaS and Enterprise” category.
This morning, Doron presented the uTest story during the CEO showcase. The room was packed with startups, entrepreneurs, VCs and media. Afterward, we conducted demos and discussed, among other things, crowdsourcing, software testing, mobile apps and overall startup life.
This afternoon, we had a series of great discussions with bloggers and journalists, including:
- Steve Bell (@sbell22) from Startup Trek (video interview & article available here)
- Mark Boslet from TechPulse 360 (@techpulse360)
- New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
- Svetlana Toun-Sambell, EDU Research Group
It’s always cool to see what other startups are up to. It’s even cooler that so many of them approach us, and already know our name and story! If you’re in the Palo Alto area, and want to meet up, please shoot me a note.
Posted on July 16th, 2009 in
uTest by Matt Johnston
More big news from uTest nation today: we were named to the AlwaysOn Global 250 list. 
In fact, uTest was selected as the SaaS & Enterprise category winner. This category had more than 40 other finalists, including proven and prolific innovators such as HubSpot, Jigsaw, Box.net and SlideRocket.
AlwaysOn surveyed hundreds of venture investors, investment bankers, and technology insiders, which yielded more than 1,000 nominees. That list was pared down to the AO Global 250 winners list through company interviews and rigorous research. And from that prestigious list, there were just eight category winners. We’re honored and ecstatic to have been named the category winner on such a coveted list.
The AO Global 250 winners have achieved, “significant market traction and game-changing technology. In addition to being innovators, the AO Global 250 winners all demonstrated leadership among their peers in the following areas: innovation, market opportunity, commercialization, media buzz, and stakeholder value creation.” In AO’s own words, the winners shared a common trait:
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Posted on May 8th, 2009 in
uTest by Matt Johnston
We capped off our week with another exciting piece of news — uTest has been named a finalist in the 2009 MITX Technology Awards.
In their own words, “The MITX Technology awards recognize emergent and innovative technologies developed in the New England area, as well as the individuals and companies responsible for driving these advancements”.
We submitted our written application last month and uTest was stacked up against scores of other New England-area companies. Last week, we were notified that we’d made the cut and were invited to present to an impressive group of judges at Microsoft’s offices in Cambridge, MA on Thursday night. And on Friday afternoon, the news came in that we’d been selected as a finalist.
This is our first year participating in the MITX awards and we’re excited to be recognized among this exclusive list of finalists. Apparently, the word’s getting out on crowdsourcing and uTest, because we’ve been on a bit of a roll when it comes to awards and speaking at high-profile events.
Check out our recent announcements about presenting at Under the Radar, Star East and Information Week’s Startup 50 award. We wouldn’t be able to tell this powerful story of crowdsourced QA without our testing community. As always, we thank you. More to come!
