Orange County Register

Make drops that take away eye pain following cateract surgery and you’re bound to grow your revenues. How much? 11,773% in the case of ISTA Pharmaceuticals in Irvine.

That’s the result of Deloitte & Touche’s annual search for the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Orange County. The list is based on the previous five years’ revenue growth. To qualify, companies must have proprietary intellectual property or technology.

ISTA’s performance was more than double that of second-place FireSocket, San Clemente maker of business relationship management software, whose 4,529% spurt is nothing to sneeze at.

Rounding out the top 10 are:

• Acacia Research Corp., Newport Beach, acquires patented technology, 4,499%
• RealtyTrac. Inc., Irvine, real estate Web site, 1,630%
• eyeonics, Inc., Aliso Viejo, cateract replacement lenses, 1,506%
• Nexiant, Irvine, software for maintenance, repair and operations inventory control, 1,479%
• Ceradyne Inc., Costa Mesa, advanced technical ceramics for military body armor and other uses, 982%
• Netlist, Inc., Irvine, high-density memory computer systems, 982%
• MegaPath, Inc., Costa Mesa, managed IP communications services, 909%
• Smith Micro Software Inc., Aliso Viejo, communications software for the wireless industry, 664%

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