Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Twitter Takes Best Startup Of 2010


This year’s fourth annual Crunchies Awards have just concluded, and we’re happy to say that it was an overwhelming success. For those who weren’t at the event or watching our livestream, we’ve included the list of nominees and winners below. Our most sincere congratulations to the winners and to all of the nominees as well. It was an incredibly tight race for many of the categories, and it’s safe to say that everyone on this list is at the top of their field.


We’d like to take a moment to point out Twitter’s win for “Best Overall Startup Or Product”, the first time the company has won a Crunchie in this category. Twitter has become an indispensable part of social communication and a key ingredient in the fabric of the web. And congratulations to Groupon’s Andrew Mason, who won for CEO of the Year; Mark Pincus, who took Best Founder of the Year, and Quora, which took Best New Startup in 2010.


Best Internet Application

Chartbeat

Greplin

Pandora (winner)

Rdio (runnerup)

Ujam


Best Social App

Cityville

Dailybooth (winner)

Foursquare

GroupMe

Twitter (runnerup)


Best Social Commerce App

Blippy

Groupon (winner)

Jetsetter

LivingSocial

One Kings Lane

ShopKick (runnerup)


Best Mobile App

Bump

Chomp

Google Mobile Maps for Android (winner)

Hashable

Instagram (runnerup)


Best Location Based Service

Facebook Places (runnerup)

Foursquare (winner)

Gowalla

SimpleGeo

Uber


Best New Device

Boxee Box

Google Chrome Notebook

iPad (winner)

iPhone 4

Kno

Xbox Kinect (runnerup)


Best Technology Achievement

Blekko

Google Self-driving Cars (winner)

Hunch

Palantir

Qwiki (runnerup)

Word Lens


Best Design

1000memories

about.me (runnerup)

Airbnb

Flipboard

Gogobot (winner)

Qwiki


Best Touch Interface

Flipboard (winner)

Fotopedia Heritage iPad app (runnerup)

Osmos

Pulse News Reader

Sencha Touch

Swype


Best Bootstrapped Startup

Addmired (iMob) (winner)

Beluga

Easel

Fast Society

Instapaper (runnerup)

Techmeme


Best Enterprise

37 Signals

Buddy Media (winner)

CloudApp

inDinero

Millennial Media (runnerup)

Salesforce


Best International

Crivo

PCH International

Soluto (runnerup)

ViKi (winner)

VNL

Wonga


Best Clean Tech

Coolerado

Kopernik (runnerup)

MicroGreen

Puralytics

Smith Electric Vehicles

SolarCity (winner)


Best Time Sink Application

Angry Birds (runnerup)

Cityville (winner)

Netflix streaming

Quora

StumbleUpon


Angel of the Year

Jeff Clavier, SoftTech VC

Ron Conway, SV Angel (runnerup)

Michael Dearing, Harrison Metal Capital

Chris Dixon, Founder Collective

Mike Maples, FLOODGATE

Paul Graham, Y Combinator (winner)


VC of the Year (individual)

Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz

Roelof Botha, Sequoia Capital

Jim Breyer, Accel Partners

John Doerr, Kleiner Perkins

Yuri Milner, DST (winner)

Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures (runnerup)


Founder of the Year

Julian Assange, WikiLeaks

Dennis Crowley, Foursquare

Jack Dorsey, Square (runnerup)

Kevin and Julia Hartz, Eventbrite

David Karp, Tumblr

Mark Pincus, Zynga (winner)


CEO of the Year

Dick Costolo, Twitter

Reed Hastings, Netflix

Drew Houston, Dropbox

Andrew Mason, Groupon (winner)

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook (runnerup)


Best New Startup or Product of 2010

Flipboard

GroupMe

Instagram

Quora (winner)

Square (runnerup)

Uber


Best Overall Startup or Product of 2010

Facebook

Groupon (runnerup)

Quora

Twitter (winner)

Zynga


And a special thanks to our sponsors, including Tagged, Microsoft, MailChimp, SecondMarket, Red Bull and Ustream.