| By Business Wire | Article Rating: |
|
| February 1, 2013 02:18 PM EST | Reads: |
510 |
Celebrating the technology industry’s key players and innovations in style, the sixth annual Crunchies Awards honored winners across 20 categories from Best New Startup to Founder of the Year last night.
Co-hosted by TechCrunch and partners GigaOM and VentureBeat and emceed by actor and comedian John Oliver, the annual ceremony recognized top tech industry accomplishments of 2012. San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall was a packed house of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, acknowledging the achievements of peers during the show and into the industry’s best after party.
“In this industry, we all move forward at a break-neck pace, all of the time,” said Ned Desmond, chief operating officer of TechCrunch. “At the Crunchies, we take an evening to look back at tech’s remarkable victories, and celebrate them accordingly.”
Chosen by public voting, this year’s winners included Fab, Reddit, Pinterest and Mark Zuckerberg. Full list of winners include:
Best Technology Achievement
Mars
Curiosity (Winner)
Google Glass (Runner Up)
Best Collaborative Consumption Service
Airbnb
(Winner)
Uber (Runner Up)
Best E-Commerce Application
Fab
(Winner)
Karma/Facebook Gifts (Runner Up)
Best Mobile Application
Google
Maps (Winner)
Evernote (Runner Up)
Fastest Rising Startup
Snapchat
(Winner)
Stripe (Runner Up)
Best Content Discovery Application
Pinterest
(Winner)
Flipboard (Runner Up)
Best Design
Paper by Fifty
Three (Winner)
Square (Runner Up)
Best Bootstrapped Startup
Techmeme
(Winner)
Instapaper (Runner Up)
Sexiest Enterprise Startup
Box
(Winner)
Cloudera (Runner Up)
Best International Startup
Soundcloud
(Winner)
Spotify (Runner Up)
Best Education Startup
Codecademy
(Winner)
Coursera (Runner Up)
Best Hardware Startup
Makerbot
(Winner)
Raspberry Pi (Runner Up)
Best Time Sink
Buzzfeed (Winner)
Letterpress
(Runner Up)
Biggest Social Impact
Reddit (Winner)
Indiegogo
(Runner Up)
Angel of the Year
Chris Dixon
(Winner)
Paul Graham (Runner Up)
VC of the Year
Peter Thiel
(Winner)
Jim Goetz (Runner Up)
Founder of the Year
Kevin
Systrom (Winner)
Elon Musk (Runner Up)
CEO of the Year
Mark
Zuckerberg (Winner)
Larry Page (Runner Up)
Best New Startup of 2012
Coursera
(Winner)
Lyft (Runner Up)
Best Overall Startup of 2012
Github
(Winner)
Palantir (Runner Up)
ABOUT TECHCRUNCH
TechCrunch is a
leading technology media property, dedicated to obsessively profiling
startups, reviewing new Internet products and breaking tech news. The
TechCrunch community includes more than two million friends and
followers on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google and other social media.
ABOUT THE CRUNCHIES
The Crunchies (http://techcrunch.com/events/crunchies-2012/),
founded by TechCrunch
and co-hosted by GigaOm and VentureBeat, honor the most deserving
startups, founders and investors across 20 categories from Best New
Startup to Founder of the Year to Sexiest Enterprise Startup. Each year,
community luminaries come together to celebrate a new year in tech with
an award ceremony and after party.
Published February 1, 2013 Reads 510
Copyright © 2013 SYS-CON Media, Inc. — All Rights Reserved.
Syndicated stories and blog feeds, all rights reserved by the author.
More Stories By Business Wire
Copyright © 2009 Business Wire. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Business Wire content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Business Wire. Business Wire shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon.
- Cloud People: A Who's Who of Cloud Computing
- Cloud Expo New York Speaker Profile: Dave Linthicum – Cloud Technology Partners
- Windows Azure IaaS Reaches General Availability
- Enterasys Spotlights SDN's Impact on Traditional Networking in Upcoming Webinar
- New Relic Q1 2013 Blazes Past Growth Targets and Reaches 40,000 Active Customer Accounts
- NASA's Twitter Account Wins Back-To-Back Shorty Awards
- Big Data Isn’t About the Database, It’s About the Application
- BEA Updates WebLogic SOA Portal for Web 2.0 Era
- Cloud Expo New York | Danger Ahead: Why File Sync Is NOT Endpoint Backup
- Symphony EYC Appoints New Account Manager to Drive Global Opportunities
- AWS Going into a New Line of Work
- Cloud Expo New York: Basics of SSD Technology and Its Use in Cloud
- Cloud People: A Who's Who of Cloud Computing
- Cloud Expo New York Speaker Profile: Dave Linthicum – Cloud Technology Partners
- Cloud Expo New York Speaker Profile: Jill T. Singer – NRO
- Cloud Expo New York: How to Use Google Apps Script
- Windows Azure IaaS Reaches General Availability
- Enterasys Spotlights SDN's Impact on Traditional Networking in Upcoming Webinar
- Upcoming Domino's Pizza Investor Events
- New Relic Q1 2013 Blazes Past Growth Targets and Reaches 40,000 Active Customer Accounts
- Rackspace Hosting Named “Platinum Plus Sponsor” of Cloud Expo New York
- Scripps Networks Interactive’s Popular Lifestyle Shows from HGTV, DIY Network, Food Network, Cooking Channel and Travel Channel Coming to Prime Instant Video and Amazon Instant Video
- NASA's Twitter Account Wins Back-To-Back Shorty Awards
- Small Cancers, Big Data, and a Life Examined
- The Top 150 Players in Cloud Computing
- Who Are The All-Time Heroes of i-Technology?
- Where Are RIA Technologies Headed in 2008?
- Success, Arrogance, Rise and Fall
- AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo Kicks Off in New York City
- Personal Branding Checklist
- The Top 250 Players in the Cloud Computing Ecosystem
- i-Technology Viewpoint: Attack of the Blogs
- Exclusive Q&A with Jeff Haynie, Co-Founder & CEO, Appcelerator
- Web 2.0 News and Wrapping Up "Real-World AJAX" Seminar
- Passing Parameters to Flex That Works
- i-Technology Viewpoint: It's Time to Take the Quotation Marks Off "Web 2.0"





















