Six Atlantic Canadian tech companies -- Verafin of St. John’s, LeadSift, Livelenz, Carboncure, and TitanFile of the Halifax area and VidCruiter of Moncton -- have won awards or recognition in the past week, indicating the potential of the digital companies in this region.

Verafin, which makes fraud-detection and anti-money-laundering software mainly for small and medium-sized banks, was named to the prestigious 2012 Deloitte Tech Fast 50, which measures revenue growth over five years. Verafin, the only Atlantic Canadian company on the list, placed 25th due to its revenue increasing 358 percent over five years.  Last year, Verafin took the 27th position with a 840 percent growth in revenues over a half-decade.

Livelenz, a Bedford company that develops administration software for fastfood restaurants, has been named a finalist in the Canadian Innovation Exchange’s CIX Top 20, which the exchange says are “Canada's hottest innovative companies working in Digital Media and Information and Communication Technology”.  Livelenz, which is also attending the 48 Hours in the Valley event in Silicon Valley this month, will find out whether it’s won at a dinner in Toronto on Nov. 27th. The company is currently working on raising equity capital with a target of $10 million.

Last week, LeadSift was selected by a panel of judges from General Electric as the most enterprising company attending the prestigious Ad:Tech New York digital marketing event. Gaining this recognition means LeadSift will be invited back to make a presentation to a larger panel of GE executives and explain to them how LeadSift can help them generate sales leads.

LeadSift mines social media posts to generate leads for clients, and CEO Tapajyoti Das said the company believes it could help several divisions of GE, which is the seventh-largest U.S. company in terms of revenue.

VidCruiter, whose software helps recruiters interview candidates from remote locations, was named the Most Innovative Startup in New Brunswick for 2012 on Wednesday evening. CEO Sean Fahey received the award at the INNOV8 Forum for Commercialization and Productivity in Moncton.

“I think to be named the most innovative startup in the province, it just validates what we’re doing,” said Fahey in an interview.

Fahey has been working on VidCruiter for a few years and recently opened the company’s first office. The company has gone from a one-man operation to nine fulltime employees in the past few months, and Fahey said revenues are rising strongly. He is working on a $500,000 fundraising round, of which $220,000 is committed and paid in.

CarbonCure, whose technology cures concrete blocks by injecting them with carbon dioxide rather than through an energy-intensive steam system, received a BuildingGreen Top-10 Product Award, celebrating leading green building materials. CarbonCure and its partner Atlas Block of Midland, Ont. won recognition from BuildingGreen of Brattlboro, VT, for the Atlas CMU block.

Milan Vrekic, Co-Founder and CEO of Dartmouth-based TitanFile, was named one of the 20 winners of the 2012 FuEL Awards, which recognize Canada’s Future Entrepreneurial Leaders. The award recognizes young entrepreneurs for their innovation, job creation, community building, and financial performance or potential.

“I am thrilled to have been selected as one of Canada’s Top 20 Future Entrepreneurial Leaders, said Vrekic, whose company is innovator in file-sharing and collaboration. “As a relatively new resident of Canada, this pleasure is only amplified.”