January 2012 - Fairfax, VA

GAITS is excited to announce making the final cut in Forbes magazine's list of finalist for the most promising companies of 2011.

Forbes' list of America's Most Promising Companies features 100 privately held up-and-comers with compelling business models, strong management teams, notable customers, and strategic partners .

"The companies on the list hail from 22 industries, with software-and-services taking the biggest slice (35%), 70 have a CEO who is also one of the founders."

Forbes has an innovative way of ranking promising companies using variables in their equation that take a comprehensive approach to evaluate a business' health…or potential. To help in their search, Forbes teamed up with CB Insights, a New York City-based data firm that tracks investment in high-growth private companies. Forbes then combined CB Insights' data with their own internal data gathered from the companies to come up with a list of companies with big growth potential.

Through its software, Mosaic, CB Insights mined data from 30,000 sources (press releases, social networks, job boards and court filings) to come up with a score for each company's potential. Then voila, rankings.

"Many thanks for everyone at Forbes for selecting GAITS as a finalist, our employees for helping us realize our potential, and the GAITS team for making our vision a reality." Said Thomas Asefi, CEO.