Boston, April 11, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Evergage has been selected as a “Hottest Tech Startup: Seed Stage” finalist in the 2014 NEVY Awards, hosted by the New England Venture Capital Association (NEVCA) to celebrate New England’s unique culture of innovation. The winners will be announced on May 14 at the 2014 NEVY Awards at Boston’s House of Blues.

Evergage provides a real-time behavior-based web personalization platform that makes it possible for digital businesses to understand their customers and respond to them in the moment, right in the context of their interaction. This next generation of customer relationship management allows brands to deliver relevant online experiences through dynamically targeted messaging that drives desired customer actions. Providing this kind of personalized experience to each visitor and customer has long been the marketer’s dream.

“We are honored to be recognized by NEVCA as one of the hottest companies of 2014,” said Karl Wirth, CEO and co-founder of Evergage. “Our innovative platform is both the most powerful and most easy-to-use solution on the market and that is why we are being adopted so rapidly by ecommerce, travel, financial, marketing, content, and SaaS companies. We solve a very big need in a massive market and have built a great team and technology that is making marketers’ dreams possible while delivering significant ROI.  I’m very proud of the Evergage team and our customers and I would like to thank them.”

This year’s NEVY nominees were chosen by an Academy of past winners and local industry experts who have their fingertips on the pulse of the region’s biggest deals and breakthroughs. Nominees come from the hottest tech and healthcare startups in a range of funding stages to the most forward-thinking angel investors and VCs.

“When we kicked off the NEVYs last year, we wanted to offer a unique opportunity for the region’s VCs and entrepreneurs to come together for a raucous celebration of what our start-up community has accomplished this year,” said C.A. Webb, executive director of the New England Venture Capital Association.  “As the epicenter of New England’s innovation ecosystem, Boston plays the perfect host to the NEVYs, and we’re keen to help local visionaries make some noise, and make connections.”

About Evergage

The Evergage platform delivers real-time web personalization to more than 100 million web visitors, optimizing site conversions and customer success for over 100 organizations, including Acquia, Experian, Gardener’s Supply Company, Millward Brown Digital, Palms Casino Resort, Publishers Clearing House and Sittercity, A BostInno 2013 “50 on Fire” and TechCrunch Disrupt finalist, Evergage’s tools empower marketers and customer success teams with real-time dynamic content and inline messaging features, behavioral analytics and segmentation, and integrations with other top CRM and SaaS providers. Founded in 2010 as Apptegic, Evergage has offices in Boston and San Francisco. For more information, visit http://evergage.com or contact the company at sales@evergage.com or 1-888-310-0589.

About the New England Venture Capital Association

As a group of investors at firms that range from small to large and from tech to life science, members of the New England Venture Capital Association (NEVCA) share a common goal: to maintain a vibrant startup ecosystem in New England. With more than 700 venture capital professionals from 90 firms, our members collectively manage more than $50 billion in capital. The NEVCA is sponsored by Cooley, KPMG, Silicon Valley Bank, Danforth Advisors, GE Healthymagination, JLL, Mason & Mason Insurance, and Pearl Meyer & Partners. To learn more about the New England Venture Capital Association, check out their website at www.newenglandvc.org.