GreenPeak Wins Prestigious 2012 Red Herring Top 100 Europe Award

April 26, 2012 Press Release

GreenPeak logo         Red Herring 100 Award logo

-- Recognized as a leader in developing new wireless technologies for consumer electronics & residential applications
    and demonstrating rapid growth and adoption by major customers

 
Utrecht, 26 April 2012 – GreenPeak Technologies, a leading low power RF semiconductor company in the ZigBee space, today announced that it has been named a winner in the 2012 Red Herring Top 100 Europe award, a prestigious award honoring the most promising technology innovation companies throughout Europe.
 
The Red Herring editorial team uses a competitive process to select the most innovative companies from a pool of several hundred from across Europe. The nominees were evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as technological innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, customer acquisition, market size and integration into their respective industries.
 
Cees Links, Founder and CEO of GreenPeak technologies says: “It's an honor to be selected among this year’s impressive group and to receive this prestigious award and the recognition of the Red Herring editorial team. Winning the Red Herring Top 100 award is both recognition of market success and a motivation for us to continue focusing on providing best in class RF solutions for consumer electronics and residential applications.”
“Choosing the companies with the strongest potential was by no means a small feat,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “After rigorous contemplation and discussion, we narrowed our list down from hundreds of candidates from across Europe to the Top 100 Winners. We believe GreenPeak embodies the vision, drive and innovation that define a successful entrepreneurial venture. GreenPeak should be proud of its accomplishment, as the competition was the strongest it has ever been.”
 
About GreenPeak Technologies
GreenPeak Technologies is a fabless semiconductor company and is a leader in highly integrated IEEE 802.15.4/RF4CE silicon solutions for consumer electronics.

GreenPeak is headquartered in Utrecht, The Netherlands and has offices in Belgium, Japan and Korea.
GreenPeak is backed by venture capitalists: Gimv (Belgium), DFJ Esprit (UK), Robert Bosch Venture Capital (Germany) and Allegro Investment Fund (Belgium).

For more information, please visit www.greenpeak.com
 
Press Contact GreenPeak
Elly Schietse
elly.schietse@greenpeak.com
Tel +32 52 45 87 30
Cell +32 479 76 18 25



Posted 4/26/2012