A joint Gigaom/Techcrunch/Venturebeat production is hosting 7th annual Crunchies on 14th February at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. This is annual celebration of the best what technology had to offer in 2013. Here are the finalists:
Best Technology Achievement:
Apple A7 Processor
bitcoin
node.js
Planet Labs low cost satellites
Project Loon
Best Collaborative Consumption Service:
Airbnb
Crowdtilt
DogVacay
Homejoy
Lyft
Best E-Commerce Application:
BarkBox
Good Eggs
Polyvore
Warby Parker
Wanelo
Best Mobile Application:
Mailbox
Snapchat
Tinder
Vsco Cam
What’s App
Fastest Rising Startup:
Lulu
QuizUp
Tinder
Upworthy
Whisper
Best Health Startup:
Fitbit
My Fitness Pal
One Medical
Oscar
Practice Fusion
Best Design:
Exposure by elepath
Nest Protect
Pencil by FiftyThree
Say Hi
Yahoo Weather
Best Bootstrapped Startup:
Grammarly
Imgur
Nerd Wallet
SmugMug
TaskUs
Sexiest Enterprise Startup:
Box
ClearSlide
New Relic
Optimizely
Zendesk
Best International Startup:
BlaBlaCar
Huddle
Supercell
Waze
Xiaomi
Best Education Startup:
Code.org
CreativeLIVE
Duolingo
Khan Academy
Treehouse
Best Hardware Startup:
3D Robotics
Occulus
SmartThings
Sonos
Square
Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop:
Candy Crush Saga
Netflix
Tinder
Vibease
Vine
Biggest Social Impact:
Code.org
Crowdtilt
Edward Snowden’s NSA Revelations
StopWatching.Us
Watsi
Angel of the Year”
Steve Anderson
Michael Dearing
Keith Rabois
Naval Ravikant
Chris Sacca
VC of the Year:
Peter Fenton (Benchmark)
Jim Goetz (Sequoia Capital)
Reid Hoffman (Greylock Partners)
Bill Maris (Google Ventures)
Bijan Sabet (Spark Capital)
Founder of the Year:
Drew Houston (Dropbox)
David Karp (Tumblr)
Aaron Levie (Box)
Matthew Prince & Michelle Zatlyn (CloudFlare)
Deena Varshavskaya (Wanelo)
CEO of the Year:
Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
Dick Costolo (Twitter)
Travis Kalanick (Uber)
Marissa Mayer (Yahoo)
Elon Musk (Tesla Motors & SpaceX)
Best New Startup of 2013
Anki
Coinbase
Glow
Tinder
Whisper
Best Overall Startup of 2013:
CloudFlare
Kickstarter
Snapchat
Twitter
Uber
Via: gigaom