Crunchies Winners: GitHub Wins Best Startup Overall
The 6th Crunchies Annual Award Show has ended with TechCrunch, GigaOm and Venture Beat handing out 20 awards to the best startups, founders and venture capitalists.
The big winner of the 2012 Crunchies is the GitHub, which is the Best Startup overall.
Congratulations to all the winners:
Best Technology Achievement (2011 winner: Siri)
Mars Curiosity – winner
Best Mobile Application (2011 winner: Evernote)
Google Maps – winner
Best Collaborative Consumption Service (New for 2012)
Airbnb – winner
Best E-Commerce Application (New for 2012)
Fab – winner
Best Design (2011 winner: Path 2.0)
Paper by FiftyThree – winner
Fastest Rising Startup (New for 2012)
Snapchat – winner
Best Content Discovery Application (New for 2012)
Pinterest – winner
Best Bootstrapped Startup (2011 winner: Imgur)
Techmeme – winner
Best Education Startup (New for 2012)
Codecademy – winner
Sexiest Enterprise Startup (New for 2012)
Box – winner
Best International Startup (2011 winner: Peixe Urbano)
SoundCloud – winner
Best Hardware Startup (New for 2012)
Makerbot – winner
Biggest Social Impact (2011 winner: Twitter)
Reddit – winner
Best Time Sink (2011 winner: Words With Friends)
Buzzfeed – winner
Angel of the Year (2011 winner: Reid Hoffman)
Chris Dixon – winner
VC of the Year (2011 winner: Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz)
Peter Thiel – winner
Founder of the Year (2011 winner: Jack Dorsey)
Kevin Systrom (Instagram) — winner
CEO of the Year (2011 winner: Jeff Weiner)
Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) — winner
Best New Startup of 2012 (2011 winner: Pinterest)
Coursera – winner
Best Overall Startup of 2012 (2011 winner: Dropbox)
GitHub – winner
Do you agree these are the top startups? Which one do you think is the best startup overall? Leave your opinion below.






