Vensa Health selected as a 2013 Red Herring Top 100 Asia

Vensa Health selected as a 2013 Red Herring Top 100 Asia

AUCKAND, New Zealand – 9 September 2013 – Auckland-based Vensa Health has been named as a Red Herring Top 100 Asia company. The award recognises the leading private companies from Asia, celebrating startups’ innovations and technologies.

Vensa Health, New Zealand’s leading mobile health (mHealth) solutions provider is focusing on delivering mobile health innovations worldwide.

Ahmad Jubbawey, CEO of Vensa Health said, “We’re thrilled to be on Red Herring’s Top 100 Asia. The list has a reputation for identifying promising new companies and entrepreneurs. Red Herring editors were among the first to recognize that companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Skype, Salesforce.com, YouTube, and eBay would change the way we live and work.”

Vensa Health has a vision of closing the gap for people’s health, one by one, targeting to touch 500 million people worldwide. With around 70% of the market using their innovative system in New Zealand Vensa Health is now focused on leveraging this position in South East Asia. The company has just completed an implementation with Vibhavadi Hospital in Bangkok, with a local telco AIS providing the telecom infrastructure.

Vensa Health’s mobile health interactive communication platform and services allow health providers to deliver appointment, medication reminders, health advice, screening and immunisation reminders to enable pro-active health management to the patient in the most personal and direct way. The company is investigating substantially into R&D to facilitate healthcare in your pocket through the Vensa App for iOS and Android releasing next year.

Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring said, “Choosing the companies with the strongest potential was by no means a small feat. After rigorous contemplation and discussion, we narrowed our list down from hundreds of candidates from across Asia to the Top 100 Winners.

“We believe Vensa Health embodies the vision, drive and innovation that define a successful entrepreneurial venture. Vensa Health should be proud of its accomplishment, as the competition was the strongest it has ever been.”

Red Herring’s editorial staff evaluated the companies on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, management quality, strategy, and market penetration. This assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the track record and standing of startups relative to their peers, allowing Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and make the list a valuable instrument of discovery and advocacy for the most promising new business models in Asia.

Red Herring is a global media company, which unites the world’s best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums, including print, online and exclusive events worldwide. Red Herring provides an insider’s access to the global innovation economy, identifying new and innovative technology companies and entrepreneurs. Its Red Herring 100 awards for North America, Europe, Asia and Global have recognized more than 5,000 companies in their early stages, including Baidu, Google, eBay, Skype.

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