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More than 300,000 nominations. 20 categories. ‘The Crunchies’, sponsored by TechCrunch, GigaOm and VentureBeat, have announced the finalists for this year’s awards. Award categories recognize the top accomplishments in a variety of fields and roles, including Best Location App, Best Cloud Services and Biggest Social Impact, new categories just added this year.
Voting begins today!
Winners will be announced on January 31, live at the Crunchies at Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall (201 Van Ness Ave.) in San Francisco, beginning at 7:30 p.m. PST.
| Best Technology Achievement (2010 winner: Google Self Driving Cars) Lytro |
| Best Social Application (2010 winner: DailyBooth) Facebook Timeline |
| Best Shopping Application (2010 winner: Groupon) Birchbox |
| Best Mobile Application (2010 winner: Google Mobile Maps for Android) Evernote |
| Best Location Application (New category for 2011) Airbnb |
| Best Tablet Application (2010 winner: Flipboard) djay |
| Best Design (2010 winner: gogobot) Gojee |
| Best Bootstrapped Startup (2010 winner: addmired) Github |
| Best Cloud Service (New category for 2011) Asana |
| Best International Startup (2010 winner: Viki) Badoo |
| Best Clean Tech Startup (2010 winner: SolarCity) Alta Energy |
| Best New Device (2010 winner: iPad) Galaxy Nexus |
| Best Time Sink (2010 winner: Cityville) Modern Warfare 3 |
| Biggest Social Impact (New category for 2011) Charity: Water |
| Angel of the Year (2010 winner: Paul Graham) Ron Conway Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi (AngelList) |
| VC of the Year (2010 winner: Yuri Milner) Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz |
| Founder of the Year (2010 winner: Mark Pincus) Leah Busque (Task Rabbit) Brian Chesky (Airbnb) Jack Dorsey (Square, Twitter) Susan Feldman & Ali Pincus (One 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) |
| Best New Startup of 2011 (2010 winner: Quora) Codecademy |
| Best Overall Startup of 2011 (2010 winner: Twitter) Dropbox |