Na última segunda-feira, 10, o TechCrunch, VentureBeat e GigaOM realizaram a sétima edição do Crunchies Awards, premiação que pretende reconhecer as melhores startups do último ano. O evento aconteceu em San Francisco e já chegou a premiar startups brasileiras, com o Peixe Urbano. Nesta edição, o grande vencedor da noite foi o Kickstarter, a maior plataforma de crowdfunding do mundo (inclusive, já falamos que o financiamento coletivo ainda cresce a passos largos). Veja abaixo os vencedores de cada categoria:
Best Technology Achievement
Apple A7 Processor – Runner-up
Bitcoin – Winner
Node.js
Planet Labs low-cost satellites
Project Loon
Best Collaborative Consumption Service
Airbnb – Winner
Crowdtilt
DogVacay
Homejoy
Lyft – Runner-up
Best E-Commerce Application
BarkBox
Good Eggs
Polyvore – Runner-up
Warby Parker
Wanelo – Winner
Best Mobile Application
Mailbox
Snapchat – Winner
Tinder
VSCO Cam
WhatsApp
Vsco Cam – Runner-up
Fastest Rising Startup
Lulu
QuizUp – Runner-up
Tinder
Upworthy – Winner
Whisper
Best Health Startup
Fitbit
MyFitnessPal
One Medical Group – Winner
Oscar – Runner-up
Practice Fusion
Best Design
Exposure by Elepath
Nest Protect
Pencil by FiftyThree – Winner
Hi
Yahoo Weather – Runner-up
Best Bootstrapped Startup
Grammarly – Runner-up
Imgur – Winner
NerdWallet
SmugMug
TaskUs
Sexiest Enterprise Startup
Box
ClearSlide
New Relic – Winner
Optimizely
Zendesk – Winner
Best International Startup
BlaBlaCar – Runner-up
Huddle
Supercell
Waze – Winner
Xiaomi
Best Education Startup
Code.org – Runner-up
CreativeLIVE
Duolingo – Winner
Khan Academy
Treehouse
Best Hardware Startup
3D Robotics – Runner-up
Oculus VR – Winner
SmartThings
Sonos
Square
Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop
Candy Crush Saga – Winner
Netflix – Runner-up
Tinder
Vibease
Vine
Biggest Social Impact
Code.org – Runner-up
Crowdtilt
Edward Snowden’s NSA Revelations – Winner
StopWatching.Us
Watsi
Angel of the Year
Steve Anderson
Michael Dearing
Keith Rabois
Babak Nivi & Naval Ravikant – Runner-up
Chris Sacca – Winner
VC of the Year
Peter Fenton (Benchmark) – Winner
Jim Goetz (Sequoia Capital)
Reid Hoffman (Greylock Partners)
Bill Maris (Google Ventures)
Bijan Sabet (Spark Capital) – Runner-up
Founder of the Year
Arash Ferdowsi & Drew Houston (Dropbox) – Winner
David Karp (Tumblr)
Aaron Levie (Box) Lee Holloway , Matthew Prince & Michelle Zatlyn(CloudFlare) – Runner-up
Deena Varshavskaya (Wanelo)
CEO of the Year
Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
Dick Costolo (Twitter) – Winner
Travis Kalanick (Uber) – Runner-up
Marissa Mayer (Yahoo!)
Elon Musk (Tesla Motors & SpaceX)
Best New Startup of 2013
Anki
Coinbase – Runner-up
Glow
Tinder – Winner
Whisper
Best Overall Startup of 2013
CloudFlare
Kickstarter – Winner
Snapchat
Twitter
Uber – Runner-up
