However, it was interesting to note that Number 1 on the list was ReachLocal , the Woodland Hills-based provider of local search advertising services — topping the list with 146,050% growth over 5 years. Cerritos-based IGNIFY is 71,San Diego’s ESET is 105, Kyriba , based in San Diego, is 184; Smith Micro , Aliso Viejo, was number 210. Perusing the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list for this year — the ranking of the fastest growing companies in North America , based on the last five years of revenue–it’s quite surprising to note the sheer number of Southern California firms listed.

Woodland Hills-based ReachLocal , a provider of local search advertising services, has topped Deloitte's 2009 Technology Fast 500 list, an annual listing of companies ranked by their five year growth rates. Other local companies in the top 100 were Cerritos-based IGNIFY at 71, San Diego's Amylin Pharmaceuticals at 76; The Search Agency , based in Santa Monica, at 83; and Beverly Hills-based Hydra at 87. ...Tags: According to the list, ReachLocal topped the list with a five-year, fiscal growth rate of 146,050 percent. The firm said it had 2008 revenues