Class of 2014 Trailblazers: Enter by Friday 19th September for a chance to win expert mentoring, recognition, great prizes and more…

Time is running out for tech startups to enter the Tech Trailblazers Awards, as the competition welcomes final entrants from a range of enterprise tech backgrounds: Big Data, Cloud, Emerging Markets, Mobile, Networking, Security, Storage, Sustainable IT, Virtualization, as well as two exciting new categories ‘FinTech’ and ‘IoT’ (Internet of Things).

The awards also welcome startups from different levels of funding. Aside from the Emerging Markets category, they recently announced the Firestarter program – a new bursary for early stage non VC backed startups, to encourage their involvement in the awards.

With these exciting developments to the awards scheme, this year promises to be bigger and better than ever. As ever, the Tech Trailblazers will reward its hottest startups with opportunities and prizes for their business to blaze a trail for the year ahead.

Submissions close on Friday September 19th at 11:59pm Pacific Time at www.techtrailblazers.com.

Rose Ross, Chief Trailblazer and founder of the awards said “The Class of 2014 Tech Trailblazers will be our most diverse yet, as our expert judges also discover innovations from our new IoT and FinTech categories. We look forward to new ideas in our popular existing categories, and our Firestarter entrants will add a new dimension to the competition. The resources we can offer to both winners and finalists provide opportunities such as mentoring, recognition and business development – equipping startups with the tools to succeed.”