CartoDB wins the EU's Europioneers High Growth web entrepreneur award

We are happy to announce that CartoDB has been awarded the European Union Europioneers 2014 High Growth Web Entrepreneur award. The award was announced today at the Web Summit in Dublin, one of the biggest web conferences in Europe. Runners up included some of the most exciting web companies in Europe today, such as Wunderlist, Klarna, Hailo and Transferwise among others.

This event is organized by the European Commission which, through the Startup Europe program aims to provide recognition to the the best digital services platforms and products using the web as an indispensable component of their armoury. That is a description which could not suit CartoDB better.

Thousands of individuals and organizations are using CartoDB everyday to create hugely impressive maps and visualizations to analyze data, generate insights and communicate their data in a better manner.

The decision was concluded by the Europioneers jury which consists of:

• Sonia Flynn, Director of Operations, Facebook Ireland
• Simone Brummelhuis, Director, founding investor at The Next women Crowd Fund
• Robin Wauters, Founding Editor at Tech.eu, Startup Advisor and Investor at Moi
• Mike Butcher, Editor At Large at TechCrunch & Co-founder of TechHub
• Jan Reichelt, Co-Founder & President at Mendeley
• Carlos Espinal, Partner at Seedcamp
• Nick Davis, Director, Head of Europe World Economic Forum

Read more about the awards and, more than ever, happy mapping!