Best Technology Achievement
Mars Curiosity winner | |
Google Glass runner-up
Baumgartner Jump, SpaceX docks with International Space Station, Tesla Supercharger Network finalists
Best Collaborative Consumption Service
Airbnb winner |
Uber runner-up
Get It Now/Postmates, Lyft, TaskRabbit finalists
Best E-Commerce Application
Fab winner |
Karma/Facebook Gifts runner-up
Hotel Tonight, Warby Parker, Zulily finalists
Best Mobile Application
Google Maps winner |
Evernote runner-up
Grindr, Instagram, Square finalists
Fastest Rising Startup
Snapchat winner
Stripe runner-up
Exec, Lyft, Pinterest finalists
Best Content Discovery Application
Pinterest winner |
Flipboard runner-up
Instapaper, Prismatic, Tumblr finalists
Best Design
Paper by FiftyThree winner |
Square runner-up
Facebook Timeline, Medium, Svbtle finalists
Best Bootstrapped Startup
Techmeme winner |
FreshBooks runner-up
Instapaper, Nimbus Data, Upverter finalists
Sexiest Enterprise Startup
Box winner |
Cloudera runner-up
Asana, Plexxi, Zendesk finalists
Best International Startup
SoundCloud winner |
Spotify runner-up
Hailo, Rovio, Xiaomi finalists
Best Education Startup
Codecademy winner |
Coursera runner-up
Edmodo, Khan Academy, Udacity finalists
Best Hardware Startup
Makerbot winner |
Raspberry Pi runner-up
Lit Motors, Lockitron, Nest finalists
Best Time Sink
Buzzfeed winner |
Letterpress runner-up
Angry Birds Star Wars, Pinterest, WhatsApp finalists
Biggest Social Impact
Reddit winner |
Indiegogo runner-up
Donors Choose, Kickstarter, Kiva finalists
Angel of the Year
Chris Dixon winner |
Paul Graham runner-up
Michael Arrington, David Lee, Chris Sacca finalists
VC of the Year
Peter Thiel winner |
Jim Goetz runner-up
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Matt Cohler, Michael Moritz finalists
Founder of the Year
Kevin Systrom (Instagram) winner
Elon Musk (SpaceX, Tesla) runner-up
Nathan Blecharczyk, Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia (Airbnb), Julia Hartz, Kevin Hartz and Renaud Visage (Eventbrite), Nir Zuk (Palo Alto Networks) finalists
CEO of the Year
Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) winner
Larry Page (Google) runner-up
Dick Costolo (Twitter), Phil Libin (Evernote), Marissa Mayer (Yahoo!) finalists
Best New Startup of 2012
Coursera winner |
Lyft runner-up
Crowdtilt, Snapchat, Waze finalists
Best Overall Startup of 2012
Github winner |
Palantir runner-up
Fab, Instagram, Square