Nominate your favorite companies, products, and people for one of our Crunchies Award categories below.
Everyone is invited to submit one nomination per category per day through Monday night, December 6th, 2012 at 11:59PM PST. Once you nominate in a category, you are able to share your nominations through Twitter and Facebook, or you can embed a badge or link to the nomination.
Best Technology Achievement
(2011: Siri) To recognize the most significant new technology achievement of 2012
Best Collaborative Consumption Service
(New for 2012) To recognize the best service built on social relationships
Best E-Commerce Application
(New for 2012) To recognize the best transaction based application
Best Mobile Application
(2011: Evernote) To recognize the best mobile application
Fastest Rising Startup
(New for 2012) Up and to the right in 2012
Best Content Discovery Application
(New for 2012) To recognize the best application to find entertainment, news, inspiration, etc
Best Design
(2011: Path 2.0) To recognize the best user-interface or product design, including special consideration for cross-platform design
Best Bootstrapped Startup
(2011: Imgur) To recognize a startup's impact that has raised less than $100k from individuals, angels or others
Sexiest Enterprise Startup
(New for 2012) To recognize the best enterprise startup making an impact in 2012
Best International Startup
(2011: Peixe Urbano) To recognize startup achievement outside the United States (company must be founded, headquartered & operated primarily outside the US)
Best Education Startup
(New for 2012) To recognize the best startup focused on education technology applications in 2012
Best Hardware Startup
(New for 2012) To recognize the best hardware startup for their achievements in 2012
Best Time Sink
(2011: Words With Friends) To recognize a favorite application to use when you're not working or to avoid thinking about work
Biggest Social Impact
(2011: Twitter) To recognize a service aimed at improving our world (does not need to be a charity)
Angel of the Year
(2011: Reid Hoffman) To recognize the most significant impact by an angel (individual) investor in 2012
VC of the Year
(2011: Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz) To recognize the most significant impact by a venture individual in 2012
Founder of the Year
(2011: Jack Dorsey) To recognize an exemplary startup founder or founding team for outstanding accomplishments in 2012
CEO of the Year
(2011: Jeff Weiner) To recognize an exemplary CEO for outstanding leadership in 2012
Best New Startup of 2012
(2011: Pinterest) To recognize the best new startup that launched to the public in 2012
Best Overall Startup of 2012
(2011: Dropbox) To recognize the best startup for its overall accomplishments in 2012
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