In collaboration with GigaOm and TechCrunch, VentureBeat is excited to announce the finalists for the 2013 Crunchies awards!
We combed through thousands of your submissions and put them together with the vast expertise of our three sites' editors to come up with this list. The nominees on this list are some of the most impressive companies and people the tech world had to offer in the past year.
Check out our finalists in all 20 categories below, ranging from Fastest Rising Startup to CEO of the Year. And congratulations to every one of them for making it to this exclusive list.
Now we need you to vote on the finalists! Head over to the 2013 Crunchies voting page and tell us which is your favorite in each category. Keep in mind that you may only vote once per day per award category until voting closes on Sunday, January 26, 2014, at 11:59 p.m. PST.
Winners will be announced onstage at the 7th Annual Crunchies.
The award show will take place on Monday, February 10, at 7:30 p.m. followed by the after party from 9:00pm to 11:30 p.m. at Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco. You can purchase tickets here. Be sure to act fast!
We hope to see you there!
Best Technology Achievement
Apple A7 Processor Bitcoin node.jsPlanet Labs low-cost satellites Project Loon
Best Collaborative Consumption Service
AirbnbCrowdtiltDogVacayHomejoyLyft
Best E-Commerce Application
BarkBoxGood EggsPolyvoreWarby ParkerWanelo
Best Mobile Application
MailboxSnapchatTinderVSCO CamWhatsApp
Fastest Rising Startup
LuluQuizUpTinderUpworthyWhisper
Best Health Startup
FitbitMyFitnessPalOne Medical Group Oscar Practice Fusion
Best Design
Exposure by ElepathNest ProtectPencil by FiftyThreeSayHiYahoo Weather
Best Bootstrapped Startup
GrammarlyImgurNerdWalletSmugMugTaskUs
Sexiest Enterprise Startup
BoxClearSlideNew RelicOptimizelyZendesk
Best International Startup
BlaBlaCarHuddleSupercellWazeXiaomi
Best Education Startup
Code.orgCreativeLIVEDuolingoKhan AcademyTreehouse
Best Hardware Startup
3D RoboticsOculus VRSmartThingsSonosSquare
Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop
Candy Crush SagaNetflixTinderVibeaseVine
Biggest Social Impact
Code.orgCrowdtiltEdward Snowden’s NSA Revelations StopWatching.UsWatsi
Angel of the Year
Steve AndersonMichael DearingKeith RaboisNaval RavikantChris 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 & Lee Holloway (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)