It was a night for the ages. At the 7th Annual Crunchies Award show, Kickstarter beat out CloudFlare, Snapchat, Twitter and Uber, and walked away with the Crunchie for Best Overall Startup. Chris Sacca won the Crunchie For Angel Of The Year, Dropbox's Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi won Founder of the Year, and Tinder took home Best New Startup.
At the start of the show, John Oliver proclaimed, partly in jest, there are no losers at the Crunchies. "All the companies nominated are not losers," Oliver states as only he can, "there are only companies that just failed to win." We're proud of all the nominees and applaud all the crazy innovations that startups and founders are constantly developing.
Best Technology Achievement
Apple A7 Processor - Runner-up
Bitcoin - Winner
Node.js
Planet Labs low-cost satellites
Project Loon
Best Collaborative Consumption Service
Airbnb - Winner
Crowdtilt
DogVacay
Homejoy
Lyft - Runner-up
Best E-Commerce Application
BarkBox
Good Eggs
Polyvore - Runner-up
Warby Parker
Wanelo - Winner
Best Mobile Application
Mailbox
Snapchat - Winner
Tinder
VSCO Cam
WhatsApp
Vsco Cam - Runner-up
Fastest Rising Startup
Lulu
QuizUp - Runner-up
Tinder
Upworthy - Winner
Whisper
Best Health Startup
Fitbit
MyFitnessPal
One Medical Group - Winner
Oscar - Runner-up
Practice Fusion
Best Design
Exposure by Elepath
Nest Protect
Pencil by FiftyThree - Winner
Hi
Yahoo Weather - Runner-up
Best Bootstrapped Startup
Grammarly - Runner-up
Imgur - Winner
NerdWallet
SmugMug
TaskUs
Sexiest Enterprise Startup
Box
ClearSlide
New Relic - Runner-up
Optimizely
Zendesk - Winner
Best International Startup
BlaBlaCar - Runner-up
Huddle
Supercell
Waze - Winner
Xiaomi
Best Education Startup
Code.org - Runner-up
CreativeLIVE
Duolingo - Winner
Khan Academy
Treehouse
Best Hardware Startup
3D Robotics - Runner-up
Oculus VR - Winner
SmartThings
Sonos
Square
Can't Stop, Won't Stop
Candy Crush Saga - Winner
Netflix - Runner-up
Tinder
Vibease
Vine
Biggest Social Impact
Code.org - Runner-up
Crowdtilt
Edward Snowden's NSA Revelations - Winner
StopWatching.Us
Watsi
Angel of the Year
Steve Anderson
Michael Dearing
Keith Rabois
Babak Nivi & Naval Ravikant - Runner-up
Chris Sacca - Winner
VC of the Year
Peter Fenton (Benchmark) - Winner
Jim Goetz (Sequoia Capital)
Reid Hoffman (Greylock Partners)
Bill Maris (Google Ventures)
Bijan Sabet (Spark Capital) - Runner-up
Founder of the Year
Arash Ferdowsi & Drew Houston (Dropbox) - Winner
David Karp (Tumblr)
Aaron Levie (Box) Lee Holloway , Matthew Prince & Michelle Zatlyn(CloudFlare) - Runner-up
Deena Varshavskaya (Wanelo)
CEO of the Year
Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
Dick Costolo (Twitter) - Winner
Travis Kalanick (Uber) - Runner-up
Marissa Mayer (Yahoo!)
Elon Musk (Tesla Motors & SpaceX)
Best New Startup of 2013
Anki
Coinbase - Runner-up
Glow
Tinder - Winner
Whisper
Best Overall Startup of 2013
CloudFlare
Kickstarter - Winner
Snapchat
Twitter
Uber - Runner-up