This year’s fifth annualCrunchies Awards has just finished up at the classy Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and it was a smashing success. We poked fun #humblebraggers, got cussed at by Siri, honored former TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde, and gave wild monkey trophies to tech’s greatest innovators. If you missed the event or ourlivestream, check out the full list of nominees and winners below.
The world owes a thank you to Jack Dorsey, the “Founder Of The Year” and leader of Twitter, winner of “Biggest Social Impact”. His poise and dedication helped keep the microblogging service online so it could aid revolutions. And a big congrats to Dropbox on its win for “Best Overall Startup”. The company’s young founders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi (from right to left below) demonstrated the power of the freemium model, and had the guts to turn down a 9 figure acquisition bid.
Here are the nominees and winners:
Best Technology Achievement
Lytro (Runner Up)
NFC
OnLive
Siri (Winner)
Tesla Flat Pack Battery
Best Social Application
Facebook Timeline
Instagram (Runner Up)
Google+ (Winner)
The New New Twitter
Path 2.0
Best Shopping Application
Birchbox
Fab (Winner)
Gilt Groupe
Lot18
Warby Parker (Runner Up)
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Best Mobile Application
Evernote (Winner)
Flipboard (Runner Up)
Pandora
Spotify
Square
TaskRabbit
Best Location Application
Airbnb
Foursquare
Grindr (Winner)
RunKeeper (Runner Up)
Uber
Best Tablet Application
djay
Eventbrite At the Door
Fotopedia (Winner)
GarageBand
Netflix (Runner Up)
StumbleUpon
Best Design
Gojee
Orchestra
Path 2.0 (Winner)
Pinterest (Runner Up)
Quora
Best Bootstrapped Startup (2010 winner: addmired)
Github (Runner Up)
Imgur (Winner)
Instapaper
Onesheet
Tap Tap Tap (Camera+)
Best Cloud Service
Asana
Box (Runner Up)
CloudFlare
Dropbox (Winner)
Okta
Twilio
Best International Startup
Badoo
Klarna (Runner Up)
Peixe Urbano (Winner)
Rovio
SoundCloud
Wonga
Best Clean Tech Startup
Alta Energy
Array Power (Runner Up)
EcoATM (Winner)
EcoMotors
Hara
Best New Device
Galaxy Nexus
iPad 2
iPhone 4S
Kindle Fire (Runner Up)
Nest (Winner)
Best Time Sink
Modern Warfare 3
Quora
Skyrim (Runner Up)
Turntable.fm
Words With Friends (Winner)
Biggest Social Impact
Charity: Water (Runner Up)
Khan Academy
Kickstarter
Practice Fusion
Twitter (Winner)
Angel of the Year
Ron Conway
Paul Graham
Reid Hoffman (Winner)
Keith Rabois
Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi (Runner Up)
Kevin Rose
VC of the Year
Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz (Winner)
Matt Cohler (Runner Up)
Vinod Khosla
Aileen Lee
Yuri Milner
David Sze
Founder of the Year
Leah Busque (Task Rabbit)
Brian Chesky (Airbnb)
Jack Dorsey (Square, Twitter)(Winner)
Susan Feldman & Ali Pincus (One Kings Lane)
Drew Houston (Dropbox) (Runner Up)
CEO of the Year
Dick Costolo (Twitter)
Daniel Ek (Spotify) (Runner Up)
Phil Libin (Evernote)
Mark Pincus (Zynga)
Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn)(Winner)
Best New Startup of 2011
Codecademy (Runner Up)
Fab
Nest
Pinterest (Winner)
Turntable.fm
Best Overall Startup of 2011
Dropbox (Winner)
Instagram
Gilt Groupe
Spotify
Square (Runner Up)
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