Top 15 technology start-ups

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Every year, Geneva-based World Economic Forum (WEF) honours Tech Pioneers IT companies for their accomplishments as innovators of the highest caliber, and whose technologies will have a deep impact on business and society.

To make it to the elite list, a company must be involved in the development of life-changing technological innovation and play a positive impact on people's lives.

Previous Technology Pioneers awardees, which have turned into today's technology icons, include Google, Infosys, Mozilla Corporation and Nanosolar among others.

Here's meeting up with the tech leaders of tomorrow.

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ATT Advanced Track & Trace is the company behind the digitised marking-and-tracking method that allows companies to verify whether their shipments are where they are supposed to be in real time.

A French company, ATT is the subsidiary of the LAMY Energies & Technologies Group. The company is headquartered in Rueil-Malmaison, near Paris. The company's Vector Seal technology stamps each product package with a unique, digitally created ID mark and track it via scanners during its entire journey to the end user. Codes are stamped in visible and hidden form on packages to prevent thieves from repacking fake goods in the original containers.

The company's clients include spare parts, perfumes and cosmetics, luxury, pharmaceutical, beverage, banking and insurance, institutions, generally in areas sensitive to counterfeiting, diversion, falsification and tampering problems.

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Brightcove is an online video platform that empowers video producers and programmers to build broadband businesses while giving viewers more choices and control over their use of video and television.

The company recently introduced Brightcove 3, its new online video platform, which has seen market adoption among customers including New York Times, AOL, Conde Nast and Times Online.

Founded in 2004, Brightcove is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business with offices across North America, Europe and Asia. The UK-based company recently expanded with a new European office in Germany and the establishment of a majority-owned subsidiary in Japan, Brightcove KK.

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Etsy's mission is to enable people to make their living making things. Till last month, sales at the three-year-old online handmade marketplace Etsy.com, where everyone from professional artists to occasional crafters can sell their wares, are up to $64.5 million, more than double of last year's $26 million sales figure.

Etsy's Maria Thomas figured in BusinessWeek's 25 Most Influential People on the Web list last year.

Etsy has over a million members who buy from its more than 100,000 artists, majority of them women. Each day, 4,000 new customers and 400 new artists join. Investors, including venture firm Accel, who put in $27 million in January.

The US-based company was founded in 2005.

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Gameforge is the largest independent supplier of browser- and client-based MMOGs (massively multiplayer online games) worldwide.

The German company offers more than 12 games in over 50 languages. More than 65 million players have already registered for Gameforge games, and more than 14 million people actively play the company’s online titles. OGame, a strategic space simulation game with thousands of players across the world, is one of the best known browser-based MMOGs from the Karlsruhe gaming specialist.

Klaas Kersting and Alexander Roesner established Gameforge in December 2003. The investment firm Accel Partners has claimed a share in the company since August 2007.