Winners

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, MediumSvbtle finalists

Best Bootstrapped Startup
Techmeme  winner |
FreshBooks  runner-up
Instapaper, Nimbus DataUpverter finalists

Sexiest Enterprise Startup
Box  winner |
Cloudera  runner-up
Asana, Plexxi, Zendesk finalists

Best International Startup
SoundCloud  winner |
Spotify  runner-up
Hailo, RovioXiaomi 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, LockitronNest finalists

Best Time Sink
Buzzfeed  winner |
Letterpres runner-up
Angry Birds Star WarsPinterest, WhatsApp finalists

Biggest Social Impact
Reddit  winner |
Indiegogo  runner-up
Donors ChooseKickstarter, 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 CohlerMichael 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