Announcing The 2013 Crunchies Finalists, Vote Now

After an onslaught of worthy nominations, TechCrunch and our partners GigaOm and VentureBeat, are proud to announce the the 7th Annual Crunchies Awards finalists. Best of all, you, our lovely readers, decide who will take home these honors. The full list is below and voting begins now.

There are 20 categories overall, ranging from Fastest Rising Startup and Sexiest Enterprise Startup to Founder of the Year. This year we’re introducing the Best Health Startup to the club, because the proliferation of sensors and mobile have taken fitness and health tracking to eleven.

The awards ceremony will take place on Monday, February 10, 2014, at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Davies is an elegant venue that has hosted some of the greatest musical performances in SF history. We’re excited to hold the Crunchies here for yet another year.

And then there’s the after party. As always there will be a hosted bar, hors d’oeuvres, interactive entertainment and other fun surprises including the chance to schmooze with the TC team at Davies. General admission tickets are now available and start at $80.

It’s going to be a tight competition with so start voting now. There are 20 award categories that, recognize the top accomplishments across a variety of fields and roles. Everyone is eligible and encouraged to vote. And we know you’re excited, but 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 on Monday, February 10, 2014, at the 7th Annual Crunchies. See you there!


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Best Technology Achievement
Apple A7 Processor (Related Posts)
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Best Collaborative Consumption Service
Airbnb (Related Posts)
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Best E-Commerce Application
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Best Mobile Application
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VSCO Cam
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Fastest Rising Startup
Lulu (Related Posts)
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Upworthy (Related Posts)
Whisper (Related Posts)

Best Health Startup
Fitbit (Related Posts)
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Best Design
Exposure by Elepath
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Best Bootstrapped Startup
Grammarly
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TaskUs

Sexiest Enterprise Startup
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Zendesk (Related Posts)

Best International Startup
BlaBlaCar (Related Posts)
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Best Education Startup
Code.org (Related Posts)
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Best Hardware Startup
3D Robotics (Related Posts)
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Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop
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Biggest Social Impact
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Angel of the Year
Steve Anderson (Related Posts)
Michael Dearing (Related Posts)
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Naval Ravikant & Babak Nivi (Related Posts)
Chris Sacca (Related Posts)

VC of the Year
Peter Fenton (Benchmark) (Related Posts)
Jim Goetz (Sequoia Capital) (Related Posts)
Reid Hoffman (Greylock Partners) (Related Posts)
Bill Maris (Google Ventures) (Related Posts)
Bijan Sabet (Spark Capital) (Related Posts)

Founder of the Year
Drew Houston & Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox) (Related Posts)
David Karp (Tumblr) (Related Posts)
Aaron Levie (Box) (Related Posts)
Matthew PrinceMichelle Zatlyn & Lee Holloway (CloudFlare) (Related Posts)
Deena Varshavskaya (Wanelo) (Related Posts)

CEO of the Year
Jeff Bezos (Amazon) (Related Posts)
Dick Costolo (Twitter) (Related Posts)
Travis Kalanick (Uber) (Related Posts)
Marissa Mayer (Yahoo!) (Related Posts)
Elon Musk (Tesla Motors & SpaceX) (Related Posts)

Best New Startup of 2013
Anki (Related Posts)
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Best Overall Startup of 2013
CloudFlare (Related Posts)
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