Award Recognizes the Top 50 Canadian Firms Delivering Innovation
Vancouver, Canada, September 22, 2008 -- MailChannels Corporation, the global leader in email traffic shaping software, today announced its inclusion into the Red Herring Canada 2008 Top 50, a selection of Canada's most innovative and promising companies. Inclusion in Red Herring's list comes just eighteen months after MailChannels was recognized by the MIT Spam Conference, after introducing its ground-breaking anti-spam technology and winning the "Best Paper" award.
"Red Herring is a respected authority on business and technology innovation," said Ken Simpson, MailChannels Co-Founder and CEO. "We are honored to have been selected by such a forward thinking group. When we started MailChannels four years ago, people said we were crazy for entering the saturated anti-spam market, but as Red Herring has shown today, there is clearly always room for innovation."
Companies nominated for the Red Herring Canada 2008 Top 50 Award must be privately owned, have their headquarters in Canada and have a technology, clean-tech or life sciences focus. In addition, a qualifying company must possess a disruptive technology or process with significant market potential.
The announcement was made last week at Red Herring's Canada 2008 event, held in Mont-Tremblant, Québec. The conference featured two days of keynote presentations and roundtable discussions from notable speakers, with topics including finding funding in a turbulent market, Web 3.0, the future of digital media and shifting VC activity. Attendees included leading technology innovators from Canada; national and international venture capitalists and financiers senior executives; technology investors; and government agencies.
MailChannels has developed a highly effective email security technology that stops spam by slowing down suspicious and unknown senders, allowing service providers and large enterprises to cut up to 90% more spam at the network edge than incumbent solutions. By stopping more spam at the edge, Traffic Control reduces email server load, improving reliability and reducing infrastructure costs. MailChannels' customers include pharmaceutical giant Wyeth, California electric utility Pacific Gas & Electric, and leading universities including Cornell.
Traffic Control is available at http://www.mailchannels.com/download/.
About MailChannels
MailChannels Corporation is the global leader in email traffic shaping software, providing the most effective protocol-layer spam filtering to email receivers of all sizes. The company's flagship product, Traffic Control, combines an ultra efficient multiplexing SMTP proxy with real-time reputation data to prioritize email traffic before it hits the mail server. MailChannels Traffic Control protects email users at Fortune 500 companies, leading service providers, and universities worldwide. Recognized by Red Herring Canada Top 50 and the MIT Spam Conference, MailChannels is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada. For more information, visit www.mailchannels.com.
About Red Herring
Red Herring is a global media company uniting the world's best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine; an online daily technology news service; technology research, and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider's access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy. For more information, visit www.redherring.com.
Media Contact: Desmond Liao, MailChannels Corporation at communications@mailchannels.com
Phone +1 (888) 685-7488
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