IndiaMart, MouthShut, Komli, Ticketvala, Yatra among winners of Red Herring 100 Asia 2008

Red Herring Magazine has announced the winners of its annual Red Herring 100 Asia 2008. The winners include IndiaMart, JiGrahak Mobility Solutions, Komli Media, mChek India Payment Systems, MouthShut, OnMobile, Ticketvala.com, Way2SMS and Yatra Online.

The Red Herring 100 Asia is an exclusive event honouring 100 cutting-edge private technology firms from Asia. The winners were selected from more than 1,000 companies based in 16 countries including China, India, Japan, Singapore, Korea, Australia and Vietnam.

According to Red Herring, the nominees for the awards were evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their ecosystem. The 100 winning companies were announced at the Red Herring Asia event in Hong Kong on December 3, 2008.

“Our winners and finalists demonstrate that Asia is increasingly becoming a leader in innovation, contrary to common stereotypes,” Joel Dreyfuss, editor-in-chief, Red Herring, has said. “It was tough to choose just the top 100 finalists from such a large list of excellent contenders, and we are very happy with the quality of the companies we selected as finalists.”

Dinesh Agarwal, founder and CEO, IndiaMart.com, has said, “We are honoured to have won this prestigious award for our role in transforming online B2B landscape in India. This recognizes the success and hard work of IndiaMart.com team to date. We also like to share this award with our buyer and supplier members, whose success at using the power of our online B2B marketplace to connect with business partners worldwide, drive sales and tap new markets has set a new era in online B2B space.”

Haranath Lokanadham, CEO and president, Ticketvala.com, has said, “To win the Red Herring Asia Awards 2008 is a great honour for Ticketvala.com. We are glad our initiative to organise an online bus ticketing platform has risen to a new level and has been recognised. We look forward to excel in our services and provide the best our industry can offer.”

[via WatBlog ]