Ah, the Crunchies Awards the glitz, the glamour, the tech innovation. This awards demonstrate gathers the finest and brightest startups and tech companies from 2011 tocelebrate their achievements and incredible engineering.
VentureBeat, GigaOm, and TechCrunch hosted the celebration, which took spot Tuesday evening at the glamorous Davies Symphony Corridor in San Francisco. The function was crammed with tech celebs and entertaining personalities, including host Harris Wittels, a “Parks and Recreation” alum and #humblebrag curator, and San Francisco’s mayor Ed Lee, who spoke about his tech jobs initiative for the City of San Francisco.
The votes have been tallied, the judges have spoken, and without even more ado, right here are the 2011 Crunchies Award winners!
Finest Technological innovation Accomplishment (2010 winner: Google Self Driving Automobiles)
Lytro
NFC
OnLive
Siri
Tesla Flat Pack Battery
Apple’s common voice recognition personal assistant took the 2011 Finest Technological innovation Achievement Crunchies award.
Best Social Program (2010 winner: DailyBooth)
Fb Timeline
Instagram
Google+
The New New Twitter
Route 2.
Google’s breakout social network snagged the award in the Finest Social App classification.
Very best Searching Program (2010 winner: Groupon)
Birchbox
Fab
Gilt Groupe
Lot eighteen
Warby Parker
Greatest Cellular App (2010 winner: Google Cellular Maps for Android)
Evernote
Flipboard
Pandora
Spotify
Sq.
Process Rabbit
Greatest Spot App (New category for 2011)
Airbnb
Foursquare
Grindr
RunKeeper
Uber
Finest Tablet Software (2010 winner: Flipboard)
djay
Eventbrite At the Door
Fotopedia
GarageBand
Netflix
StumbleUpon
Very best Style (2010 winner: gogobot)
Gojee
Orchestra
Route two.
Pinterest
Quora
Best Bootstrapped Startup (2010 winner: addmired)
Github
Imgur
Instapaper
One Sheet
Faucet Tap Faucet (Digital camera+)
Finest Cloud Provider (New group for 2011)
Asana
Box
CloudFlare
Dropbox
Okta
Twilio
Very best Global Startup (2010 winner: Viki)
Badoo
Klarna
Peixe Urbano
Rovio
SoundCloud
Wonga
“Groupon for Brazil” Peixe Urbano took the Very best Intercontinental Startup Crunchies award.
Finest Thoroughly clean Tech Startup (2010 winner: SolarCity)
Alta Energy
Array Energy
EcoATM
Eco Motors
Hara
Finest New Gadget (2010 winner: iPad)
Galaxy Nexus
iPad 2
iPhone 4S
Kindle Hearth
Nest
The coolest thermostat created therefore much, Nest, nabbed the Greatest New System Crunchies award.
Greatest Time Sink (2010 winner: Cityville)
Present day Warfare 3
Quora
Skyrim
Turntable.fm
Words With Buddies
Zynga’s addictive term video game won the Very best Time Sink Crunchies award.
Largest Social Influence (New category for 2011)
Charity: Water
Khan Academy
Kickstarter
Follow Fusion
Twitter
Angel of the Calendar year (2010 winner: Paul Graham)
Ron Conway
Paul Graham
Reid Hoffman
Keith Rabois
Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi
Kevin Rose
VC of the 12 months (2010 winner: Yuri Milner)
Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz
Matt Cohler
Vinod Khosla
Aileen Lee
Yuri Milner
David Sze
Founder of the 12 months (2010 winner: Mark Pincus)
Leah Busque (Job Rabbit)
Brian Chesky (Airbnb)
Jack Dorsey (Sq., Twitter)
Susan Feldman & Ali Pincus (A single Kings Lane)
Drew Houston (Dropbox)
CEO of the Year (2010 winner: Andrew Mason)
Dick Costolo (Twitter)
Daniel Ek (Spotify)
Phil Libin (Evernote)
Mark Pincus (Zynga)
Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn)
Very best New Startup of 2011 (2010 winner: Quora)
Codeacademy
Fab
Nest
Pinterest
Turntable.fm
Best Overall Startup of 2011 (2010 winner: Twitter)
Dropbox
Instagram
Gilt Groupe
Spotify
Sq.
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