The Sixth Annual Crunchies Awards are now behind us. The awards have been extensively regarded to be a massive achievement.  They were held this year at the sophisticated Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco.  It was hosted this year by John Oliver, a writer and correspondant on Comedy Central’s The Everyday Show. It was a evening of laughter, element comedy show and component roast.

The 2012 Crunchies Review

In attendance at the event have been some of tech’s biggest stars, including Melissa Mayer, Larry Web page, Mark Zuckerberg, who also happened to win the award for CEO of the Year.  The Crunchies are regarded as to be the most influential technologies awards ceremony.  The Crunchies, according to the event internet site, “celebrate the most compelling startups, net and technologies innovations of the year.”

Twenty awards are handed out in the course of the night.  Recipients consist of a wide selection of commence ups, venture capitalists, and founders. The competitors contains such categories as Best Content material Discovery Application, Ideal Bootstrapped Startup, and Greatest Mobile Application, to name a couple of.  The 2012 Crunchie winners are as follows:

  • Best Technology Achievement: Mars Curiosity
  • Best Collaborative Consumption Service: Airbnb
  • Ideal E-Commerce Application: Fab
  • Very best Mobile Application: Google Maps
  • Fastest Increasing Startup: Snapchat
  • Ideal Content material Discover Application: Pinterest
  • Ideal Design and style: Paper by FiftyThree
  • Very best Bootstrapped Startup: Techmeme
  • Sexiest Enterprise Startup: Box
  • Best International Startup: SoundCloud
  • Best Education Startup: Codecademy
  • Ideal Hardware Startup: Makerbot
  • Ideal Time Sink: Buzzfeed
  • Most significant Social Effect: Reddit
  • Angel of the Year: Chris Dixon
  • VC of the Year: Peter Theil
  • Founder of the Year: Kevin Synstrom (Instagram)
  • CEO of the Year: Mark Zuckerberg
  • Best New Startup of 2012: Coursera
  • Greatest All round Startup of 2012: Github

It will be exciting to see how some of the new startups fare in the coming years.  For instance, Github, which won Very best Overall Startup of 2012, also won in 2009 for Ideal Bootstrapped Startup.

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