FreeWavz Announced as a Finalist for the 2015 Red Herring Top 100 North America Award
MAITLAND, Fla., May 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- FreeWavz (www.FreeWavz.com) today announced that it has been selected as a finalist for Red Herring's Top 100 North America award, a prestigious list honoring the year's most promising private technology companies from the North American business region.
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This unique assessment of potential is supplemented by a review of the company's actual track record and standing, which allows Red Herring to see past the "buzz" and make the list a valuable instrument for discovering and advocating the greatest business opportunities in the industry.
"We are very excited to be selected as a finalist for this prestigious award," said Mike Kahn, CEO of FreeWavz. "FreeWavz represents the next evolution of wearable technology, the hottest growing category in consumer electronics."
This accolade builds on FreeWavz' existing list of honors received in 2015 for its excellence in technology innovation of the FreeWavz including 2015 CES Innovation Award Honoree and 2015 Bluetooth SIG Breakthrough Award Finalist in the prototype category, and the SXSW Innovations Wearable Technology of the year award in 2015, underscoring its technology innovation in the fitness wearable industry.
Red Herring has been selecting the most exciting and promising start-ups and "scale ups" since 1995. Finalists are still evaluated individually from a large pool of hundreds of candidates based across North America. Each company goes through an individual interview after filling out a thorough submission, complemented by a due diligence process.
2015 will be remembered as a special vintage. "The short-list confirms the excellent foresight and strong innovations created by entrepreneurs in North America. By all measures, the remarkable group of companies comprising the Top 100 Short-list underlines the region's constant drive to innovate," said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring.
FreeWavz smart fitness earphones are the world's first wire-free earphones. FreeWavz feature "transmissive" pulse oximetry technology, the same method founder, Dr. Eric Hensen, uses in the operating room to obtain heart rate and oxygen saturation from his patients. FreeWavz not only record heart rate and oxygen saturation but also measure steps, calories burned, and report distance, duration and speed.
About FreeWavz
FreeWavz (www.FreeWavz.com) is a fitness-focused consumer electronics company based out of Melbourne, Fla., developing smart wearables for the ears. Its first product, FreeWavz, a smart earphone with integrated fitness monitoring and Bluetooth technology, was successfully funded through Kickstarter in August 2014 and expects to start shipping in May 2015. Stay in-touch with FreeWavz through Facebook and Twitter.
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