The Tech Trailblazers Awards are designed explicitly for enterprise tech startups that are less than six years old and at C-series VC funding or below. The awards have low barriers to entry and recognize startup innovation both in startups and individuals. The awards seek to recognize true innovators in the following enterprise technology areas: AI, big data, blockchain, cloud, containers, developer, fintech, HPC IoT, mobile, networking, security, storage, and virtualization. Special Firestarters award for startups two years and younger with no VC investment. There are individual categories for CxOs in those startups: Female Tech Trailblazer of the Year and Male Tech Trailblazer of the Year. New this year are Startup Trailblazer (for anyone at a startup) and Industry Trailblazer (For an individual in the startup ecosystem including channel players, VCs, legal firms, accountants, accelerators, incubators for example.) Tech Trailblazers 2021 close September 22nd 2021. Sponsors and industry partners to date include:the Cloud Security Alliance, beSUCCESS, Computing, ExecEvent, Launchpad Europe, Lissted, MIT/Stanford Venture Lab, Mynewsdesk, The Next Silicon Valley, Outsource, Prezi, RealWire, Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), StartTau, Startup America, The Register, TiE Silicon Valley, VMware and Wazoku. For more information, visit www.techtrailblazers.com, email [email protected] or follow us on Twitter for the latest buzz @techtrailblaze, #ttawards.