TECH100 General Information

What are this year’s submission questions?

• What’s your elevator pitch? (2-3 sentences suggested)
• Describe key technology that your organization offers. (2-3 paragraphs suggested)
• Demonstrate your impact with metrics. How are you measuring success? This is the right place to share the metrics that truly differentiate your company and product. What growth has your solution created for your clients? Has your technology improved cost efficiency? Do you have client success metrics and quantifiable industry impact metrics? Has your organization experienced outsized revenue growth? (2-3 paragraphs suggested) **All metrics provided in the section may be made public and used in winner profiles.**

Can I nominate my company for both the Tech100 Mortgage and Tech100 Real Estate awards? 

Yes, we encourage companies that serve clients in real estate and mortgage to consider nominating for both programs or the single program that’s most important to your business. Both programs will be judged separately and winning in one program will not preclude you from winning in the other. These are separate programs with separate awards. 

Our company has more than one software platform and we serve multiple industries. Do we have to apply multiple times?

Each company will be evaluated by our selection committee and editorial team based on the industry and market they select with their submission, if you would like to be considered in more than one category an additional nomination is required.

We want to know if [Company X] applied. Or we’d like to know how many companies applied/were nominated.

In the past we have received hundreds of nominations for the TECH100 program. We’re expecting submissions to increase exponentially year after year. Beyond that, we do not disclose if individual companies have been nominated for the program, nor do we disclose how many companies have received nominations in any given year.

Our software is proprietary and we want to share some things in our application that are private, so we can be accurately assessed. How do we do that?

The information submitted in a nomination may be published in the event the company is selected as a winner by our panel. We do not recommend including proprietary information that you would not like to have published publicly.

The company I want to nominate doesn’t advertise with HousingWire. Can they still be considered?

Yes! We want to capture the most innovative companies in the industry. The fact that a nominee is an HW Media client does not impact their ability to win any of our awards.

We submitted a nomination. Can we know if we made it prior to the official announcement for planning and/or marketing purposes?

We do not disclose the companies that make our HW TECH100 until the honorees are published on the HousingWire website; and will not be disclosing any information as to who made the cut prior to that date. When each year’s award winners are announced, the business contacts at winning companies will receive notification of their inclusion as well as information to support any press statements and similar marketing measures.

Our organization wasn’t selected, can you give us feedback on why we weren’t picked?

Unfortunately, due to the volume of submissions we receive we are not able to provide feedback for each submission.

Our organization wasn’t picked, can we get a refund?

We are not able to offer refunds for any of our awards programs. For many of our programs, we attract hundreds of nominations. Nomination fees support to time and human capital necessary to review nominations, research individuals, and, in the case of TECH100, manage industry review panels of fellow housing professionals.

Where do I submit my application?

The application should be submitted at https://www.housingwire.com/tech100/