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url: 'https://dri.es/acquia-is-a-red-herring-finalist'
title: 'Acquia is a Red Herring finalist'
author:
  name: 'Dries Buytaert'
  url: 'https://dri.es/about'
date: '2008-04-23T05:32:30-04:00'
license: 'https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/'
type: blog
tags:
  - Drupal
  - Acquia
published: true
id: 435
---

# Acquia is a Red Herring finalist

[image acquia/red-herring-finalist-100 resize=false]

[Acquia](https://www.acquia.com) (my company) is part of an exceptional group of companies vying for the [2008 Red Herring 100 North America award](http://www.herringevents.com/northamerica08/index.html). The award recognizes the top 100 privately held companies in North America. This is big because previous winners included companies like Google, Yahoo!, Skype, Netscape, Salesforce.com, and YouTube. It is still early days for Acquia but it is good to get noticed early on. The winners will be announced in May so fingers crossed ...
