50,000feet is an independent, award-winning creative agency that elevates brands and businesses through branded, cross-platform communications and experiences. From corporate identity, marketing communications and advertising to all facets of web, mobile and interaction design, 50,000feet helps clients transform their brands, differentiate clients from their competitors and deliver results. Recognized for exceptional work by AIGA, Communication Arts, and other leading design organizations, 50,000feet is a sister agency to 5dk and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Avalara is the industry’s most trusted provider of sales and use tax automation solutions in the country. Headquartered in Bainbridge Island, Washington, the company is transforming the sales and use tax compliance process for businesses of all sizes. Avalara’s AvaTax family of products offers end-to-end sales tax compliance—from point of sale to electronic filing and payment. It automates previously manual tasks and works in real time within the systems that your business already uses. In addition to being Microsoft’s SaaS Partner of the Year in 2010, Avalara is a Gold Magento Industry Partner and is Magento’s Exclusively Recognized Partner for Sales Tax Automation.

Magento is the fastest growing e-commerce platform in the world. With over 200 solution providers and 80,000 merchants, including leading brands, innovators and large retailers, it is enabling more than $25 billion in transactions each year. Magento is a feature-rich, open-source platform solution that offers merchants complete flexibility and control over the presentation, content, and functionality of their online channel. Its intuitive administrative interface contains powerful marketing, merchandising and content management tools that give merchants the power to create sites tailored to their unique business needs. Based in Los Angeles, the company was acquired by eBay in June 2011.

PEER 1 Hosting is one of the world’s leading IT hosting providers. Founded on a commitment to best-of-breed technology, it operates a high-performance 10GB FastFiber Network™ connected by 17 state-of-the-art data centers, 21 points-of-presence and 10 colocation facilities throughout North America and Europe. Customer service to its more than 10,000 customers worldwide is backed by a 100% uptime guarantee and 24x7x365 FirstCall Support™. PEER 1’s portfolio includes managed hosting, dedicated servers under the ServerBeach brand, colocation and soon cloud services. The company is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with European operations headquartered in Southampton, UK.

Rackspace Hosting is a world leader in hosting, serving more than 152,000 customers. The San Antonio-based company delivers enterprise-level hosting services to businesses of all sizes. Rackspace integrates the industry’s best technologies for each customer’s specific need and delivers it as a service via the company’s commitment to Fanatical Support® and a 100% network uptime guarantee. Core Rackspace solutions include managed hosting, cloud computing, email and apps hosting, from file sharing to backup and collaboration. The company operates 9 data centers in the United States, United Kingdom and Hong Kong.

Runa is the industry leader in conversion marketing. The company’s cloud-based solution, SalesLift, helps e-commerce retailers increase their conversion rate and grow sales and profits. The service collects and analyzes comprehensive data about the behavior of store visitors and uses real-time analytics and advanced learning algorithms to deliver Smart Deals to shoppers while they are still on the site. Over 250 merchants are successfully using Runa SalesLift today. The company is a Gold Magento Industry Partner based in Mountain View, California.