It's finally here: The Crunchies nominees are in, and you can finally vote for your favorites.
Next month, VentureBeat and TechCrunch will be co-hosting the Crunchies, our annual celebration of tech and startups. On February 5, after rounds of nominations and voting, we'll announce the winners at a ceremony held at 7:30 p.m. at the Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. Per the rules, you may vote once per day per award category until voting closes on January 27 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific.
This year, we'll have T.J. Miller, who plays the nutty-yet-sadly-realistic incubator owner Erlich Bachman in HBO's show Silicon Valley, as our host. It's sure to be a night of hilarious jokes and some uncomfortable realizations about our industry's very real absurdity.
If nothing else, it’ll be a hell of a night: The Crunchies are a gala affair and some of the leading lights of Silicon Valley will be there. Want to attend? You can buy Crunchies tickets here. Or, if you’re interested in sponsoring the event, talk to our sales team at sales@venturebeat.com.
As for the voting, there are 20 categories with a handful of finalists in each. Check out the full list below, and head here to cast your votes.
Best Technology AchievementApple Pay The Blockchain Rosetta Mission’s Comet Landing SpaceX Lateral Booster Stella Solar-Powered Car
Best On-Demand ServiceHotel Tonight Lyft Postmates Shyp Uber
Best E-Commerce ApplicationCasper Flipkart Honest Company Instacart Warby Parker
Best Mobile ApplicationAcorns Storehouse Strava Venmo Yik Yak
Fastest-Rising StartupLending Club Product Hunt Reddit Slack Yik Yak
Best Health StartupFitbit Misfit Wearables Rise Theranos Zenefits
Best Design1Password Airbnb Manual Camera App Medium Monument Valley
Best Bootstrapped StartupDaring Fireball Grammarly MailChimp Meadow Techmeme
Best Enterprise StartupCloudFlare Docker GitHub OpenDNS Slack
Best International StartupCitymapper EyeEm Kik Line Spotify
Best Education StartupAltSchool ClassDojo Coursera Kano Khan Academy
Best Hardware StartupDJI Fitbit GoPro Oculus VR Xiaomi
Can’t Stop, Won’t StopBuzzFeed Giphy Kim Kardashian’s Hollywood Threes Twitch
Biggest Social ImpactFireChat Girls Who Code Internet.org Tim Cook’s Brick Twitter
Angel of the YearCyan Banister Ashton Kutcher Alexis Ohanian David Tisch Kickstarter Backers of Oculus VR
VC of the YearMarc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz (Andreessen Horowitz) Peter Fenton (Benchmark) Jim Goetz (Sequoia Capital) Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures) Peter Thiel (Founders Fund)
Founder of the YearStewart Butterfield and Cal Henderson (Slack) John and Patrick Collison (Stripe) Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos) Brian Acton and Jan Koum (WhatsApp) Mikkel Svane, Alexander Aghassipour and Morten Primdahl (Zendesk)
CEO of the YearMarc Benioff (Salesforce.com) Tim Cook (Apple) Drew Houston (Dropbox) Travis Kalanick (Uber) Marissa Mayer (Yahoo)
Best New Startup of 2014Bellhops OnePlus Product Hunt Shyp Slack
Best Overall Startup of 2014GoPro Snapchat Stripe Tinder Uber