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 Start-Up Winner: Olono

Olono sends along the following exciting update!

“Since our recognition as an Austin A-List award winner in 2018, Olono has seen strong customer traction and has attracted additional venture capital investment to fuel product advancement and go-to-market programs. Large B2B sales organizations are using Olono for a variety of use cases including reducing stale pipeline, increasing deal velocity and driving consistent sales execution - and have recognized immediate impact including 90% drop in "inactive deals", 10x more data in the CRM, and 2 hours/rep/wk saved. Olono is now being called the Waze™ for B2B Sales for its step by step guidance, and recently a customer claimed, "In more than five years of working here, I've never seen a tools so well received by the sellers. You can learn more here: https://blog.olono.ai/interview-rackspace”

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