Couchbase is a Finalist for the 2013 Red Herring Top 100 North America Award

Mountain View, Calif. – May 15, 2013  – Couchbase, Inc., a leader in NoSQL database technology and the company behind the Couchbase open source project, announced today it had 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 ventures from the North American business region.

Couchbase was selected based on a unique assessment of potential based on the company’s actual track record and standing, which allows Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and make the list a valuable instrument for discovering and advocating the greatest business opportunities in the industry. Couchbase was recognized with this group as one of the best performing and prominent companies of the year.

Red Herring has been selecting the most exciting and promising start-ups and “scale ups” since 1995. Finalists are still evaluated individually from a large pool of hundreds of candidates based across North America. Twenty major criteria underlie the scoring and process. They include, among others: the candidate company’s addressable market size, its IP and patents, its financing, the proof of concept, trailing revenues and management’s expertise. Each company goes through an individual interview after filling out a thorough submission, complemented by a due diligence.

2013 will be remembered as a special vintage. “The finalists list confirms the excellent choices made by entrepreneurs and VCs and the start-ups’ solid roots in corporate America, embracing their innovations. By all metrics, it emphasizes the United States’ entrepreneurial excellence,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring.

Finalist selections for the 2013 edition of the Red Herring 100 North America award are based upon technological innovation, management strength, market size, investor record, customer acquisition and financial health. During the several months leading up to the announcement, hundreds of companies in the fields of security, Web 2.0, software, hardware, life sciences, cloud, mobile and others completed their submissions to qualify for the award.

“Red Herring evaluates some of the most exciting, innovative companies for their Top100 North America award and Couchbase is honored to be included among them,” said Bob Wiederhold, Couchbase CEO. “Thousands of companies worldwide have come to rely on Couchbase NoSQL database technology to power their interactive web and mobile applications, and their success fuels our desire to build a world-class business that serves the evolving database market.”

Finalists are asked to present their winning strategies at the Red Herring North America Forum in Monterey, Calif., May 21 to 23, 2013. The Top 100 winners will be announced at a special awards ceremony the evening of May 23 at the event.

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