Zend wins IVA and Red Herring’s Best Software Startup award

June 22nd, 2006 | by admin | suraski.net

Yesterday, Zend won Israel Venture Association (IVA) and Red Herring’s Best Software Startup award for the year 2006. Those of you who know the Israeli hitech landscape can understand what an amazing feat this is; For those who don’t, Zend (and two other startups in other hitech areas) won out of a list of 400 nominees, which in turn are only a small fraction of the startups in the country. Israel has the highest concentration of startups in the world, second only to the Silicon Valley. So, the fact Zend won is pretty amazing and a great honor for all of the team.
I believe that PHP, the opensource movement and its ability to create a 1st class contender in the Web development space played a major role in the judges’ decision, so I also see this as a win for the entire PHP community. We’ve definitely all come a long way…
Great job, Zenders and PHPers!
Links:
Red Herring
Ynet (Hebrew)
Some pictures

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