FortiusOne Announced Winner of the Red Herring North America 100

ARLINGTON, VA, May 15 (MARKET WIRE) --
Red Herring announced that FortiusOne, the leader in next-generation
intelligent mapping solutions, was selected for the Red Herring North America
100 Award, given to private technology companies based in North America.

The Red Herring 100 editorial board reviewed North American
entrepreneurialcompanies and identified the top 100 most innovative to include
on its annual
list. Past award winners include Google, Yahoo!, Skype, Netscape,
Salesforce.com,
and YouTube.

"We are so pleased that FortiusOne has been named a top company driving
thefuture of technology," said Sean Gorman, CEO and founder of FortiusOne. "Our
disruptive core technologies were created to leverage the emergence of Web
mapping and other Web 2.0 innovations. Our next-generation GeoCommons Suite
addresses the limitations of traditional analytic tools and the challenges in
finding adequate data to solve real-world problems, enabling anyone to find,
create and share geographic intelligence for learning, decision making and
problem
solving. More than ever, we continue to pursue our mission of making the
world's data accessible and easy to use by everyone."

The 100 winning companies were announced at the Red Herring 100 North
America
event held on May 13, 2008 in San Jose, California at the Fairmont. The CEOs of
the
winning startups presented their innovative ideas and technologies to an
audience of leading entrepreneurs, financiers, and corporate strategists.
This year's Red Herring 100 North America event marked the 11th anniversary of
the Red Herring 100 Awards. In celebration, the event featured keynote addresses
from
legendary VC investors and CEOs of leading Internet, information, and
communications companies including: Ann Winblad, Co-Founder & Managing Partner,
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners; David Lawee, Vice President of Corporate
Development, Google; Dan'l Lewin, Corporate Vice President, Strategic and
Emerging Business Development, Microsoft; and Michael Wishart, Managing
Director,
Goldman Sachs.

"Being recognized as a Red Herring Top 100 has validated our value
proposition," said Chris Marentis, president and COO of FortiusOne. "With the
first application of the next-generation GeoCommons Suite, Finder!, launching at
this week's Where 2.0 Conference, we are only further asserting our leadership
in
driving the next generation of mapping with the convergence of GIS analysis
and visualization capabilities with GeoWeb ease-of-use and collaboration."

Participate in the Finder! Beta here: http://finder.geocommons.com/

About FortiusOne

FortiusOne provides next-generation Intelligent Mapping solutions that
makethe World's geographic data accessible to everyone for learning, decision
making
and problem solving. FortiusOne is leading the way toward the next generation
of the Web with breakthrough technologies that offer unprecedented access to
data, easy remixing of data for specific needs, and rich information
visualization that enables storytelling with maps. FortiusOne's GeoCommons
Suite brings intelligence to the GeoWeb by unleashing tools and data to much
larger audiences than ever before. For more information, visit
www.fortiusone.com.

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FortiusOne Contact:
Geoff Livingston
PR counsel for FortiusOne
Phone: 703-568-3016
Email: geoff@livingstonbuzz.com
http://www.fortiusone.com

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