Gyft Ranked on Inaugural Top Company Cultures List Presented By Entrepreneur and CultureIQ

Mountain View, CA, November 4, 2015 – Gyft, Inc. was recently ranked on Entrepreneur’s Top Company Cultures list, a comprehensive ranking of U.S.-based businesses exhibiting high-performance cultures created in partnership with culture management software and service provider CultureIQ®. The Top Company Cultures list has placed Gyft in the Medium-sized company category. Gyft is recognized for creating an exceptional culture that drives employee engagement, exceeds employee expectations and directly impacts company success.

“Gyft’s culture stems from the company’s commitment to creating an environment where team members feel excited, engaged, and empowered to innovate,” said CJ MacDonald, Co-Founder of Gyft. “We believe everyone plays a critical role in our organization’s success, and strive to create a space that supports creativity, and invites collaboration.”

“Creating an entrepreneurial culture is a key priority for business leaders, yet no one until now has really assessed the role culture plays in success,” says Ray Hennessey, editorial director of Entrepreneur.com. “This ranking celebrates the dedication that all teams, from entry-level to the C-suite, have in ensuring they are creating vibrant, healthy and sustainable work environments. That’s good for employees, investors and customers.”

The full list, presenting a total of 75 companies categorized as small, medium-sized or large companies—25-49 employees, 50-99 employees and more than 100 employees— is available on Entrepreneur.com. Core insights, behaviors and attributes that have helped to shape the high-performing cultures presented by the top companies are shared alongside practices to help other companies work on their own workplace environments.

“There is always an opportunity to learn from each other when running and growing a business, which is why we are excited to honor these companies and share their success in building an effective culture,” says CultureIQ founder and CEO Greg Besner. “I find it particularly inspiring to see a wide variety of companies represented in the list, confirming that you can have a strong culture regardless of industry, size, or business maturity.”

The rankings for all companies were determined using CultureIQ’s methodology for measuring high-performance cultures. Employees at each company received a survey of 21 short, multiple-choice questions. The answers were used to assess a company’s strength across 10 core qualities of culture – performance focus, support and innovation, to name a few. These quality strength scores were combined with the employee Net Promoter Score to create a cumulative CultureIQ Score. The companies with the highest CultureIQ Scores became the Top Company Culture list in ranking order. To be considered for the ranking, a company must have at least 25 employees, have been founded before Jan. 1, 2014 and be headquartered in the U.S.

To view Gyft in the full ranking, visit www.entrepreneur.com/TopCultures

ABOUT GYFT®, INC.

Gyft was founded in January 2012 by Vinny Lingham, CJ MacDonald and Mark Levitt with one goal: To disrupt the existing $100 billion gift card market. Gyft is a gift card platform for consumers, businesses, and retailers that enables customers to easily buy, send, upload and redeem gift cards from any device. In 2014, Gyft was acquired by First Data, a global technology leader in the financial services industry.

For more information, visit gyft.com.

ABOUT ENTREPRENEUR MEDIA INC.

For nearly 40 years, Entrepreneur Media Inc. has been serving the entrepreneurial community providing comprehensive coverage of business and personal success through original content and events. Entrepreneur magazine, Entrepreneur.com, and publishing imprint Entrepreneur Press provide solutions, information, inspiration and education read by millions of entrepreneurs and small business owners worldwide.

To learn more, visit entrepreneur.com.

About CultureIQ®

CultureIQ is culture management software that helps companies measure, understand, and strengthen their organizational culture. By providing research-driven and customizable surveys, insightful analytics, and reporting and culture resources, CultureIQ empowers companies to make data-driven decisions to better engage and retain their employees.

Based in New York City, CultureIQ was founded in 2013 by Greg Besner, a veteran entrepreneur and New York University Stern School of Business adjunct professor, with a notable history of implementing successful culture initiatives. CultureIQ is backed by a group of successful business leaders, including Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s VegasTechFund and other entrepreneurs who have seen the valuable impact of prioritizing culture at their own companies.

For more information, visit www.cultureiq.com.

Contact: Danny Williams
Gyft, Inc.
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