Overleaf Named as a 2016 Red Herring Top 100 Europe Winner

Huge congratulations to Overleaf! They have been named as a winner in the Red Herring Top 100 Europe Awards!

The Red Herring Top 100 Awards are widely recognized as one of the industry’s more prestigious, with hundreds of candidates from each continent competing for a Top 100.

Red Herring uses more than 20 criteria to analyze the companies. Some criteria are scale-based and some are absolute numbers.

Criteria for the selection include, but are not limited to:

• Level of specialty
• IP in the solution created through internal R&D
• Social contribution
• Disruptiveness of the solution in its respective markets
• Venture investment
• Market maturity
• International footprint (including international employees)
• Revenues and the company’s overall globalization
• Startup growth stage
• Growth rate
• Industry awards and recognitions
• Market size
• Execution index
• Technological advantage
• Number of customers and users
• Regional considerations
• Branding
• CEO/Team experience and track record
• Team quality and experience

After being shortlisted Overleaf were then invited to present their business strategy at the Red Herring Europe Forum in Amsterdam, where it was announced at the awards ceremony that they were winners!

This award only adds to Overleaf’s list of accolades! In 2014 they were crowned Innovative Internet Business at the Nominet Internet Awards and in 2015 they received a ‘Highly Commended’ in the ALPSP Innovation in Publishing Awards.

If you want to find out more about Overleaf you can follow them on Twitter (@overleaf) and visit their website www.overleaf.com