In an ever-evolving landscape of new product launches, it takes a visionary and dedicated product leader to steer their offerings to success.
The following nominees have demonstrated their exceptional ability to bring novel products to the market and distinguish themselves from the competition.
Selection Criteria:
Since 2021, Ignition has been closely observing the launches of burgeoning companies. This includes tracking company announcements, product releases, and marketing campaigns through various data points, including website traffic, audience reach, unique selling points, and overall market impact.
The “Top 100 Product Leaders” awards aims to showcase the arduous efforts of creating and bringing a product to market without the backing of a well-established brand. Only product leaders of emerging companies are eligible for nomination.
About Ignition
Ignition empowers teams to plan, collaborate, and execute their product launches with ease. Our platform caters to Product and Product Marketing teams, providing them with a structured GTM process, product roadmaps, and insightful analytics to shape their future plans and strategies.
Anne Nielsen
Executive Director of Product Management
22 Months at JupiterOne
JupiterOne
JupiterOne is the first cloud-native security platform with a graph data model that reveals the complex relationships between cyber assets, allowing for the creation and management of an entire security process, from policy creation to secure cloud infrastructure management, for quickly growing and evolving companies.
Alessandra Colaci
Head of Product Marketing
4 Months at SparkPlug
SparkPlug
SparkPlug empowers frontline workers with fair compensation and economic equality through gamified commissions, contests, and goals, directly rewarding key influencers for every sale they generate, improving employee performance for retailers and driving more revenue for brands.
Adeel Najmi
Chief Product Officer
7 Months at SourceDay
SourceDay
SourceDay automates the change management process for purchase orders, reducing manual work and preventing late shipments, extra inventory, pricing discrepancies, and stock issues. This results in a more efficient and streamlined procurement process.
Reah Miyara
VP of Product
6 Months at Aporia
Aporia
Aporia offers a full-stack and highly customizable ML observability platform that enables data science and ML engineering teams to monitor, debug, explain and improve their machine learning models and data, thus providing a complete solution for their needs.
Noam Horenczyk
Head of Partnerships (Product & Business)
9 Months at Walnut
Walnut
Walnut revolutionizes B2B sales processes by offering a codeless platform that personalizes demos, provides consistent storylines, collects valuable insights, saves time and resources, and integrates with leading CRMs to streamline the sales process while avoiding technical issues.
Oz Wasserman
Head of Product
14 Months at Reco
Reco
Spectrum Labs uses AI and community data to enhance the safety and value of the Internet. Its Trust & Safety platform reduces content moderation costs by 50% and increases the detection of harmful behaviors by 10 times, making it a valuable solution for businesses and society.
Gabe Novais
Head of Product
16 Months at Zip
Zip
Zip is a leading intake-to-procure solution that offers a single platform for employees to initiate purchases or vendor requests, improving visibility and employee experience, with no-code configuration and intelligent workflows across multiple teams for faster approval.
Michael Chang
Head of Product
15 Months at Thunkable
Thunkable
Thunkable is a no-code platform that enables users to build native mobile apps without coding, using a drag-and-drop interface and advanced editing capabilities. Thunkable is changing the app development game by making native development accessible to everyone.
Frederico Hakamine
Head of Technical Product Marketing
15 Months at ngrok
ngrok
ngrok is a popular ingress-as-a-service trusted by over 5 million developers for its simplicity and security. With just one line of code, developers can quickly access services with authentication, observability and other critical controls, bypassing the need for legacy proxies, load balancers, or VPNs.
Ara Bilazarian
Head of Product Marketing
15 Months at Apollo.io
Apollo.io
Apollo is an all-in-one sales intelligence platform offering tools for prospecting, engagement and revenue growth, helping sellers and marketers to discover new customers, connect with contacts, and establish a modern go-to-market strategy.
Hila Segal
VP Product & Customer Marketing
16 Months at Observe.AI
Observe.AI
Observe.AI is a live conversation intelligence platform designed to enhance the performance of contact centers. It leverages an accurate AI engine to extract insights from all customer interactions, providing real-time guidance to improve performance and drive outcomes such as increased sales and higher retention
Sean Sullivan
VP, Product
16 Months at Fairwords
Fairwords
Fairwords is an AI-powered communications protection software that trains employees in real-time as they type. Its aim is to promote inclusive and compliant business communications by providing in-the-moment feedback on potentially harmful language, with real-world examples and the power to change messages being entirely in the user's hands.
Sunil Masand
SVP, Product
16 Months at Aavenir
Aavenir
Aavenir's next-gen Source-to-Pay suite uses Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to improve procurement processes, reduce cycle time and provide best practice suggestions. The suite, powered by the ServiceNow platform, delivers unified digital workflows and improves productivity for enterprise customers worldwide.
Brad Crawford
Vice President of Product
17 Months at Phylum
Phylum
Phylum provides automated software supply chain risk analysis to protect organizations and defend developers, analyzing open-source packages upon publication and integrating seamlessly into CI/CD systems to provide complete supply chain coverage and block dangerous or illegitimate packages.
Douglas McMaster
Vice President Of Product
17 Months at ComboCurve
ComboCurve
ComboCurve is a cutting-edge energy analysis platform that combines forecasting, type curves, economics, mapping, modeling, and net zero planning into a single streamlined workflow. The platform enables energy companies to quickly auto-forecast thousands of wells and compare various economic scenarios, improving their forecasting, valuation, reporting, and decision-making processes.
Rachel Gavazzi
VP Product Management
17 Months at BANYAN
BANYAN
Banyan provides a seamless and secure platform for consumers to connect their receipts to apps and services of their choice, while merchants can monetize these connections, gain insights and marketing opportunities through the Banyan API. The platform operates with privacy-by-design, ensuring consumer consent before any receipt sharing.
Teju Shyamsundar
Head Of Product Marketing
18 Months at Veza
Veza
Veza is an authorization platform for data in hybrid, multi-cloud environments, enabling organizations to manage and control access to their data for an identity-first approach to security. Trusted by global enterprises for securing their enterprise data.
Jessica Groff
VP of Product
18 Months at Funnel Leasing
Funnel Leasing
Funnel offers a simplified, connected platform for all renter-facing interactions, from inquiry to renewals, creating a consistent e-commerce apartment shopping experience for renters and leasing teams. It is more than a CRM and serves as a tool for business transformation.
Sean Smith
Head of Product
18 Months at Denim
Denim
Denim is a financial enablement platform that streamlines logistics financing operations with an ecosystem of intelligent financial products, tools, and automation. Its technology enables freight brokers to simplify their financing and easily access working capital, reducing daily payments and collections tasks by 75%. A remote-first company, Denim has been named a Best Place To Work and Best Workplace for Innovators.
Rohit Agarwalla
Head of Product
19 Months at StarTree
StarTree
StarTree empowers decision-makers by providing fast, fresh, and actionable insights. We aim to unlock the potential of user-facing analytics by exposing timely information in intuitive apps that not only inform, but also allow users to act on the information being shared.
Derek Kohn
Head of Product, Founding Team
19 Months at Royal.io
Royal.io
Royal is a music ownership platform that leverages blockchain technology to allow artists to maintain control over their work, share it with fans, and access a new revenue stream, enabling them to build deeper connections with people invested in their music's success
Rich Mauser
Head Of Product Marketing
19 Months at Logix Board
Logix Board
Logixboard is a white-label customer experience software designed to improve sales and customer retention for logistics service providers, easily integrating with internal systems and launching in under three weeks with minimal effort
Duane Newman
Vice President, Product Management
20 Months at Whistic
Whistic
Whistic is a provider of vendor security solutions that helps companies build trust by publishing and evaluating security posture, with the Trust Catalog® containing nearly 15,000 company profiles for on-demand assessment, serving notable customers in various industries.
Rich Matsuura
VP of Product
20 Months at Dispatch
Dispatch
Dispatch provides businesses with efficient last-mile delivery solutions by offering a network of independent contractor drivers and modern scheduling software for in-house vehicles, streamlining the delivery process and allowing businesses to focus on their core operations.
Alex Gruber
Vice President Of Product Management
20 Months at Carbyne
Carbyne
Carbyne is a leading provider of mission-critical contact center technologies, delivering rich data to emergency centers and enterprises via secure communication channels without a consumer app. Carbyne aims to redefine emergency collaboration and improve operations with live actionable data.
Manish Garg
SVP, Product and Technology
21 Months at EarnUp
EarnUp
EarnUp is a technology platform that optimizes the borrower experience by reducing risk, streamlining operations, and improving financial health for borrowers. Its award-winning platform delivers compassionate solutions to improve financial wellness.
Cesare Rotundo
Vice President Of Product Management
23 Months at Enable
Enable
Enable is a rebate management platform that helps businesses increase growth by automating rebate processes and providing real-time data and insights, accurate forecasting and collaboration with suppliers/customers. With Enable, businesses can manage rebate complexity, track progress and use rebates as a growth strategy.
Michael Bock
Co-Founder: Product & CTO
24 Months at Column Tax
Column Tax
Column Tax is committed to leveling the playing field in access to financial help by offering innovative tax solutions. The company aims to bridge the gap between high net worth individuals with professional support and the majority of Americans who lack financial or tax advice. Column Tax's API-first, year-round tax products aim to put an accountant in every person's pocket through integration with the financial apps people use daily.
Jieun Kim
VP of Product
25 Months at Talespin ✈️
Talespin ✈️
Talespin is building a spatial computing platform for talent development and skills mobility in the future of work. Their proprietary platform offers an end-to-end solution for creating, distributing, and measuring the impact of immersive learning content, enabling people to explore unique career paths that meet the needs of both businesses and individuals.
Graham Keggi
Head of Product
25 Months at Inclined
Inclined
Inclined is a fintech company that provides a technology platform aimed at improving long-term outcomes for whole life insurance policy holders. The company's mission is to enhance the value of whole life insurance investments and drive transformation in the industry through the use of modern technology
Husnain Bajwa
VP, Product Strategy
25 Months at Beyond Identity
Beyond Identity
Beyond Identity offers a secure, passwordless authentication platform for organizations seeking a tech-forward solution to identity management. The platform eliminates the need for passwords and offers a frictionless multi-factor login experience, revolutionizing the way the world logs in.
Mike Davey
VP of Product
28 Months at Raptor Maps — Solar Software
Raptor Maps — Solar Software
Raptor Maps offers advanced analytics, insights, and productivity tools for the solar industry. Its services, including a digital twin of solar sites, aerial thermal inspections, data normalization, and mobile tools, help asset owners, managers, and financiers increase performance, reduce risk, and lift ROI
Ryan Treichler
VP of Product Management
29 Months at Spectrum Labs
Spectrum Labs
Spectrum Labs uses AI and community data to enhance the safety and value of the Internet. Its Trust & Safety platform reduces content moderation costs by 50% and increases the detection of harmful behaviors by 10 times, making it a valuable solution for businesses and society.
Eva Wei
Director of Product Marketing (Head)
30 Months at OneSignal
OneSignal
OneSignal is a market-leading customer engagement solution that offers omnichannel messaging, delivering over 10 billion messages daily to 1 million businesses, with quick and reliable delivery, open API, extensive documentation, free accounts, and intuitive personalization and analytics tools.
Sean Lynch
Head of Product Marketing
31 Months at Superb AI
Superb AI
Superb AI is an end-to-end training data platform that automates data preparation at scale, making building and iterating on datasets quick, systematic, and repeatable, launched by a team of data scientists, academics, and ML engineers to revolutionize the way teams label, manage, curate, and deliver training data.
Will Broadlick
Vice President of Product
33 Months at Authvia
Authvia
Authvia is revolutionizing commerce with their patented text-to-pay technology, delivering a secure, fast, and contactless payment option via text messaging and other applications. Their SaaS software, TXT2PAY®, seamlessly connects businesses, consumers, and payment processors to streamline payment processes and expedite cash flow.
Tejas Ranade
VP of Product
33 Months at Kintent
Kintent
Kintent's Trust Cloud is a comprehensive solution that simplifies security and compliance efforts by automating program management with APIs and AI, reducing manual work, and ensuring continuous compliance. It enables organizations to respond to security questionnaires with ease, share their security program with confidence, and complete certifications with ease.
Dan Nadir
Chief Product Officer
34 Months at Theta Lake
Theta Lake
Theta Lake provides patented compliance and security solutions for modern collaboration platforms, using AI to detect and surface regulatory, privacy, and security risks. Its product suite integrates with multiple platforms and enables organizations to expand their use of communication platforms safely and cost-effectively.
Renata Budko
Head of Product
35 Months at Traceable
Traceable
Traceable provides a context-aware API security platform that identifies APIs, evaluates API risk posture, stops API attacks, and provides analytics for threat hunting and forensic research. The solution enables organizations to confidently discover, manage, and secure APIs, and quickly deploy and scale to meet ongoing needs.
Robert Adolph
Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder
36 Months at CIQ
CIQ
CIQ is a technology company consisting of founders, innovators, and engineers who strive to assist customers and communities to achieve great things. They offer a range of services including escalation, development, infrastructure, cloud, and support to empower individuals and companies to focus on their strengths.
Daniel M
Founder and Head of Product
36 Months at Trustworthy
Trustworthy
Trustworthy reimagines antiquated estate management into the Family Operating System®, an online service that helps modern families curate, manage and securely share their important information. With Trustworthy, families are delightfully organized and completely prepared for all of life's moments, now and across generations.
Evan Klein
Head Of Product Marketing
37 Months at Jellyfish
Jellyfish
Jellyfish is an Engineering Management Platform that helps engineering leaders align engineering work with business goals by providing visibility into engineering organizations, their work, and operations through analysis of engineering signals and contextual business data.
Tania Siska
Founding Head of Product Experience
37 Months at Guidewheel
Guidewheel
Guidewheel is a company that aims to improve the performance of factories globally through their plug-and-play FactoryOps platform. The platform utilizes a unique device that clips onto any machine to collect real-time data and transform it into a connected, actively learning system that helps factories reduce downtime, increase production, and continually improve performance
Erich Kaiser
SVP Product & Operations
39 Months at Certemy
Certemy
Certemy provides a Workforce Compliance Management software for companies with licensed and certified professionals. It helps track and manage employee licenses and certifications, reducing credential management costs, mitigating compliance risk, and optimizing staffing with its comprehensive tracking and managing functionality and unlimited configurability.
Carol Medel
Interim Chief Product Officer
43 Months at iTrustCapital
iTrustCapital
iTrustCapital is a leading Crypto IRA platform in America, providing investors with the ability to invest in Crypto, Gold, and Silver assets within their Roth, SEP, and Traditional retirement accounts, and being named the best in the country
Arvind Krishnan
VP of Customer Experience & Product Implementation
43 Months at BuildOps
BuildOps
BuildOps is the only all-in-one management software built specifically for the modern commercial specialty contractor. Focusing on trade contractors, BuildOps combines service, project management, and more into a single SaaS platform.
Cristian Felix
VP of Product
45 Months at Accern
Accern
Accern empowers domain experts and business analysts to extract the most accurate insights from massive streams of unstructured data–including news, social media, industry reports and internal documents—with the Accern NoCodeNLP Platform™, within minutes.
Erin McFarlane
VP of Product Innovation
48 Months at Fairmarkit
Fairmarkit
Fairmarkit is a tail spend management solution that automates sourcing processes for procurement teams, reducing manual work and promoting competitive bidding for efficient cost savings. Adopted by leading organizations such as Snowflake and Refinitiv, it aims to revolutionize the way organizations make purchases.
Emily Rej
Head of Product Engineering
46 Months at Token
Token
Token is a security company that provides passwordless, biometric, and multifactor authentication solutions to secure organizations against breaches, data loss, and malware. By delivering next-generation security, Token protects against social engineering and tampering.
Chris Comstock
Chief Product Officer
49 Months at Claravine
Claravine
Claravine is a leader in the field of data integrity for global enterprises, offering a proactive approach to marketing measurement. Their platform, The Data Standards Cloud, is used by a quarter of the Fortune 100 to improve decision-making speed, increase agility, and drive higher ROI through the activation of data standards.
Arun Buckeye
Vice President and Head Of Product
53 Months at WorkSpan
WorkSpan
WorkSpan is the #1 co-sell management network that helps companies grow their revenue by enabling secure collaboration between partnership and sales teams, exchanging co-sell referrals, managing pipeline, and tracking performance on a live dashboard.
Aaron Cheng
Vice President of Data Science Product/Solutions
54 Months at dotData
dotData
dotData is a leading AI/ML platform that enables organizations to improve their machine learning models and derive unbiased insights. Its award-winning technology streamlines the discovery process and allows for the deployment of transparent pipelines.
Daniel Bradshaw
CTO, VP Products & Engineering
55 Months at Airspace Link
Airspace Link
Airspace Link, Inc. offers the AirHub Platform, a cloud-based geospatial digital infrastructure that integrates the needs of state and local governments to plan, build, and manage their drone community, ensuring compliance with FAA rules and regulations and considering Drone Operator considerations. The company aims to promote safe integration of drones for the advancement of social equity, the environment, and the economy.
Brian Hinote
VP of Product Management, Title Production Systems
53 Months at Flueid
Flueid
Flueid is an independent technology company that streamlines the rigid real estate process using data and insights. Its patented platform combines elements of insurtech, proptech, and fintech to unlock data and digitally advance real estate transactions, resulting in a secure, streamlined, and on-demand experience.
Lonnie Rosenbaum
Head of Product
57 Months at Healthie
Healthie
Healthie provides a comprehensive platform for virtual-first healthcare companies to efficiently launch and expand their provider services. The company partners with digital health companies to modernize the healthcare experience and improve patient outcomes through streamlined operations and long-term client relationships
Eddie Thomas
Chief Technology and Product Officer
56 Months at Metropolis Technologies
Metropolis Technologies
Metropolis is revolutionizing the way people move through cities by connecting mobility, local businesses and payments through a modern mobility commerce infrastructure. With a focus on reducing friction and maximizing efficiency, Metropolis is helping people get from A to B with ease
Meghna Suresh
Founding Team & Head of Product
61 Months at Replicant
Replicant
Replicant is a leader in Contact Center Automation that helps companies automate customer service calls with AI, enabling consumers to have natural, 24/7 conversations across voice, messaging and other digital channels to resolve their customer support issues
Chris Griffith
Chief Product Officer
61 Months at Balbix
Balbix
Balbix offers a solution to reduce cyber risk by utilizing its Security Cloud platform to build a unified cyber risk model through ingesting data from security and IT tools. It provides actionable insights for risk reduction and quantifies cyber risk in dollars to aid in decision making.
Farooq Khalid
SVP - Head of Products
62 Months at SKAEL
SKAEL
SKAEL is a digital workforce platform that enables companies to automate their processes across various applications, data sources and communication channels using a no-code approach. This allows for seamless engagement with users via email, text, voice or video.
Moo Kim
Chief Product Officer / Chief Technology Officer
61 Months at Nowsta
Nowsta
Nowsta is a technology company that blends financial wellness and workforce management, creating a platform that utilizes machine learning and payment technology to improve communication and payment processes between companies and their hourly employees
Nathan Rowe
Chief Product Officer
80 Months at Evident
Evident
Evident is a technology platform trusted by large organizations to safely collect, analyze and manage credentials for third-party partners, employees, franchisees and others, enabling fast and informed decisions without compromising privacy. The platform offers scalable and configurable solutions for credential management, communication, storage, decision-making and ongoing monitoring in today's remote-first and ever-changing regulatory environment.
William Sankey
CEO and Head of Product, Co-Founder
69 Months at Northspyre
Northspyre
Northspyre is a cloud-based platform that utilizes automation, data analytics, and proactive insights to provide real estate professionals with intelligence for better and faster decision-making on development, capital, and asset projects
Vivek Malipatil
Chief Product & Operations Officer, Co-founder
73 Months at Motorq
Motorq
Motorq is a cloud-based connected car data and analytics platform that delivers business intelligence to its customers. Its advanced machine learning and AI capabilities make sense of vast amounts of data streams to help customers make informed decisions
Tuan Ho
Chief Product Officer
69 Months at Raydiant
Raydiant
Raydiant is the leading in-location experience management platform, trusted by world-class brands in retail, e-commerce, and restaurants, to create personalized and engaging experiences that drive revenue growth. Its cloud-based solution enables easy creation, management, and scaling of on-screen experiences, saving time, resources, and effort for clients across 1 to 100,000 locations.
John Tippett
Co-Founder & Head of Product
65 Months at SeekOut
SeekOut
SeekOut is a comprehensive talent management platform that provides organizations with a 360-degree view of their internal employees and external talent. With analytics, predictive insights, and action recommendations, SeekOut helps companies gain a competitive advantage in recruiting, retaining, and developing their talent base
Christopher Calmeyn
Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer
121 Months at Fetcher
Fetcher
Fetcher is a company dedicated to making it easy for organizations to find the right person for the right job. It helps high-growth companies match candidates to jobs based on their talents, interests, and experience, with the belief that when the right person is in the right role, magic occurs.
Fred Kunda
Cofounder / Chief Product Officer
86 Months at PINATA
PINATA
PINATA is an enterprise SaaS platform that offers systematic task management, helping teams optimize workflows and improve ROI from everyday operations. It transforms the way work gets done at scale and is used by companies ranging from startups to Fortune 100s
Jon Loyens
Chief Product Officer and Cofounder
85 Months at data.world
data.world
Data.world offers a cloud-native data catalog solution to provide businesses with clear, accurate, and fast answers to their questions. By mapping siloed, distributed data to consistent business concepts, data.world creates a unified body of knowledge that can be easily understood and used by anyone.
Art Mostofi
VP of Products
97 Months at GridX
GridX
GridX is a company that works with energy providers to assist in their transition to clean energy by using its Enterprise Rate Platform. This platform helps with the development of new products, streamlined billing and settlement processes, and increased customer engagement, leading to the widespread adoption of clean energy programs. Its platform is utilized by prominent energy providers and serves over 19 million homes and businesses