Bay Area's Fastest-Growing Private Companies

The San Francisco Business Times is accepting nominations for the Bay Area's fastest-growing private companies.

The newspaper will feature the region's fastest-growing private companies in the 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the Bay Area and 50 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the East Bay. These companies will be recognized in a special supplement to be published in the San Francisco Business Times on Oct. 26, 2012.

The CEOs of companies that make it onto the Fast 100 and Fast 50 will be honored at a gala awards reception in the fall. The rankings will be announced at this event. This awards reception is a tremendous opportunity to meet and network with the leaders of the other fast-growing companies in the Bay Area.

All submissions must be received on or before the Friday, May 25, 2012, deadline.

Submissions for this survey will be used to determine both the 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo counties and the city of Palo Alto) and the 50 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the East Bay (Alameda and Contra Costa counties).

Revenue numbers will be published.

Fast 100 and Fast 50 companies are ranked on percentage revenue growth from 2009 to 2011. To qualify, you must provide revenue figures for the years 2009, 2010 and 2011.

Last year's Fast 100 recognized companies with three-year growth rates from 30.2 percent to almost 6,100 percent.

The top 10 companies in the San Francisco Business Times Fast 100 in 2011 were Nest Collective, Stella & Dot, Spigit, Bizo, Bay Equity, Marketo, TubeMogul, Advantis Global Services, XA.net and Covermate Food Covers.

The San Francisco Business Times partners with PricewaterhouseCoopers to conduct the research and produce the Top 100 and Top 50 Fastest-Growing Private Companies Lists.

To nominate your company, go to: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/nomination/16651