Every year, the Austin Chamber and SXSW host the Austin A-List Awards, which celebrates and promotes Austin’s top innovative, homegrown companies and leaders. The event highlights both tech and non-tech companies.

Austin is home to a unique and collaborative business community. We are working to highlighting them in a variety of ways including through a commitment to make A-List an enduring honor by staying in touch with and highlighting our winners throughout the year.

As we approach this year’s Austin A-List Awards on May 23 at ACL Live @ the Moody Theater, we are looking each week at a different 2018 winner.

When selecting winners, our judges evaluate nominees on the following criteria:

Innovation: How novel/innovative is the company’s core idea?
Achievability: How achievable/practical is the idea? Can it be delivered?
Sustainability: Is the company sourcing properly with thoughts on its impact to the environment?
Growth: Will the company scale over time?
Leadership: Does the company have the right leadership to execute?

2018 Emerging Winner: New Knowledge

New Knowledge defends information integrity online and serves high profile brands and responsible business leaders with detection and disruption of campaigns designed to deteriorate brand perception. They monitor the digital landscape to stop manipulative, inauthentic campaigns before they can cause maximum damage and degrade trust and credibility.

Since January 2018 the company has:

• Partnered with multiple Fortune 100 brands
• Grown in revenue to [$6.3M] Annual Recurring Revenue [this is our mean projection for May 23rd]
• Raised $15M in funding
• The team has grown 1,000% (with related HQ moves and upgrades)
• Partnered with DARPA to develop open-source advanced machine learning capabilities
• Established a team of globally recognized leaders, researchers, and experts in the area of disinformation.

Know an awesome candidate for 2019 Austin A-List Awards? Help us discover and promote the very best Austin has to offer. Nominate here.