VentureWire released their FASTech 50: Most Innovative Start-Ups last week. Companies across the spectrum of the tech world are featured and below are the 14 I found to be most interesting:
SaaS company that helps tracks IT costs and expense allocation in virtualization and cloud computing. All-star list of investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock and Ignition.
Authentic8 not only has a company name that teenage girls on AIM would love, it also operates as a web browser in the cloud that protects against threats of attacks, such as phishing, by offering a disposable browser on a virtual server that is trashed when a session is complete. 
A true Big Data player that monitors how a company's data is being used and shifts it around so that important stuff can be quickly retrieved.
Bluefin uses a technology to match social media commentary with what prompted them and offers the software as a service to advertisers, brands and TV networks attempting to target interested parties.
BranchOut allows for career networking on Facebook, leveraging the site to share job listings with friends and discover inside connections at companies.
Bump was originally designed as an easy way to transfer contact information, but has since moved into transferring almost anything. They have been particularly active in the mobile payments space and the transfer of money. Quite a few big names have bought into this bumping including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, SV Angel and Y Combinator.
Corduro, a Google Ventures-backed mobile payments company, has built a cloud platform that allows it to offer a a variety of features namely for interaction with non-profits and charities. The company is wearing multiple hats allowing for cheap transfer of funds through a mobile device.
Factual structures and verifies data across a spectrum of verticals, from CEO compensation to number of bottle beers consumed, to conceivably number of bottled beers consumed by CEOs. Factual uses both public and private sources and making the information available to mobile and web app developers.
A search engine that ranks data based on what is important to the seacher, determined by Facebook, Twitter, Gmail and other aggregates of data. Founded by an 18 year old last year. Kids today.
Mobile advertising that isn't annoying. Kiip is built into games and provides ad-based offers based on when players reach certain milestones.
Social Shield helps parents identify and monitor their children's activity on social-networking sites, identifying risky online behavior and verifying their friends are actually their friends
TayKey monitors what people are talking about on over 150 social media sources and puts relevant ads in front of them in seconds
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