Six Israeli start-ups are among the Gartner Group's "Cool Vendors" list for 2008. The award is important for small companies with advanced technology by giving them exposure. Gartner Group selected the winners after the consultant's analysts met the companies and mapped their ideas and a selection committee picked the winners. Gartner Group covered 172 companies in 41 reports on different sectors.
The six Israeli winners for 2008 are:
•Shai Agassi's electric car venture Project Better Place;
•Aternity Ltd., which is developing software that monitors applications running on computers;
•Zoomix Ltd., a provider of information management and integration systems;
•Qumranet Inc., founded by Giora Yaron, which is developing a Linux-based virtual work environment;
•VeNotion Technologies Ltd., which develops business performance management solutions;
•Yoggie Security Systems Ltd., which is developing IT security solutions for mobile facilities.
Gartner Israel manager Baruch Gindin said, "The special thing about this year's survey is the fairly large number of Israeli companies. Not all the fields covered by Gartner are relevant to Israel, so the achievement is even more impressive."
Two Israeli companies were named "Cool Vendors" in 2007: eglue Software Ltd. and OpTier Ltd.
