Pax8 honours top partners & vendors at Beyond 2026
Wed, 17th Jun 2026 (Today)
Pax8 named its top partners and vendors at the Beyond 2026 awards in Salt Lake City, with global, regional and category-based honours across its marketplace.
The partner awards recognised companies and individuals across a range of operating models and regions, including global, franchise, nonprofit and social impact categories. Vendor awards spanned regional and product-focused distinctions, alongside honours for innovation, collaboration, startup and agentic offerings.
Among the partner winners, Sourcepass took Global Partner of the Year, while Lyra, an Evergreen Company, won Partner of the Year in the decentralised category. TeamLogic IT received the franchise award, Betterworld Technology won the nonprofit partnership award, and GTIA took the social impact award.
Shield Technology Partners was recognised for MIP transformation, while Mary Summerell of Revenge Technologies received the Women in Tech Champion award. In the Asia-Pacific group, Otto IT was named Pax8 Champion, ADITS entered the Hall of Fame, and Kaine Mathrick Tech won both Peak Performance and Most Valuable Player for Security.
Other APAC partner winners included Umbrellar Technology Group for Infrastructure, Lucid Labs for Productivity, ADITS for Continuity, Connected Platforms for Operations, and Server Today for Network and Communications.
On the vendor side, Microsoft won global Vendor of the Year as well as the Partner's Most Valuable Vendor Award. SentinelOne was named Most Valuable Vendor in EMEA, Google took the APAC equivalent, and Check Point won the NAMER category.
Additional vendor awards went to Guardz for breakthrough performance, Acronis for collaboration, Upic Solutions for social impact, and Proofpoint for innovation. Cork won both Startup Vendor and Agentic Vendor Award. Category-based global vendor honours went to CrowdStrike for Security, Foxit for Productivity, Comcast for Network, RingCentral for Communications, NinjaOne for Continuity, FlexPoint for Operations, and Nerdio for Infrastructure.
The awards were intended to recognise work carried out over the past year in support of small and medium-sized business customers through the Pax8 marketplace. Pax8 describes itself as a global AI and cloud marketplace serving SMBs through a network of IT service providers and technology vendors.
According to the company, more than 47,000 IT partners and 800,000 SMBs use its platform, giving the awards a broad commercial footprint across channel partners, software vendors and service providers that sell and manage technology for smaller business customers.
Partner network
The range of categories reflects Pax8's effort to capture different types of channel relationships within its ecosystem. Alongside conventional top-partner awards, it included categories tied to social impact, nonprofit work, operational performance and specialist technology areas.
Regional distinctions were especially visible in APAC, where several awards recognised both overall performance and category leadership. Kaine Mathrick Tech was one of the most prominent names in that group with two awards, while ADITS also appeared multiple times.
Vendor lineup
The vendor results show the continued presence of large, established technology groups within the Pax8 marketplace, with Microsoft taking two major awards and Google, Comcast and RingCentral also receiving category recognition. At the same time, smaller or newer vendors such as Cork and Guardz were recognised in startup and breakthrough categories.
That mix suggests Pax8 is balancing large-scale supplier relationships with newer entrants seeking distribution through the channel. The inclusion of a separate Agentic Vendor Award also points to a growing focus on AI-related products within partner marketplaces, although no winner was listed in the announcement.
Lane Brannan, EVP and General Manager of the Americas at Pax8, commented on the awards during the ceremony.
"These awards are a reflection of the incredible work our partners and vendors are doing to drive real impact for SMBs every day," said Lane Brannan, EVP and General Manager of the Americas at Pax8. "We're proud to celebrate this year's winners for their innovation, dedication and continued commitment to success with Pax8. Their achievements speak to the momentum we're building together across the ecosystem, and we're excited to keep pushing the channel forward as we create even more opportunities in the years ahead."