Meet the finalists for the 2014 Crunchies

It’s almost time once again for the Crunchies, the annual celebration of the best that technology had to offer over the past year. A joint Gigaom/Techcrunch/Venturebeat production, this year’s event is scheduled to take place on February 14th at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and we’re proud to announce the following list of finalists following the nomination process.

Winners will be announced at the show, so make sure and grab a ticket here. Thanks for participating in the nomination process, and vote for your favorites in the final round here.

Best Technology Achievement:

Apple A7 Processor

bitcoin

node.js

Planet Labs low cost satellites

Project Loon

Best Collaborative Consumption Service:

Airbnb

Crowdtilt

DogVacay

Homejoy

Lyft

Best E-Commerce Application:

BarkBox

Good Eggs

Polyvore

Warby Parker

Wanelo

Best Mobile Application:

Mailbox

Snapchat

Tinder

Vsco Cam

What’s App

Fastest Rising Startup:

Lulu

QuizUp

Tinder

Upworthy

Whisper

Best Health Startup:

Fitbit

My Fitness Pal

One Medical

Oscar

Practice Fusion

Best Design:

Exposure by elepath

Nest Protect

Pencil by FiftyThree

Say Hi

Yahoo Weather

Best Bootstrapped Startup:

Grammarly

Imgur

Nerd Wallet

SmugMug

TaskUs

Sexiest Enterprise Startup:

Box

ClearSlide

New Relic

Optimizely

Zendesk

Best International Startup:

BlaBlaCar

Huddle

Supercell

Waze

Xiaomi

Best Education Startup:

Code.org

CreativeLIVE

Duolingo

Khan Academy

Treehouse

Best Hardware Startup:

3D Robotics

Occulus

SmartThings

Sonos

Square

Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop:

Candy Crush Saga

Netflix

Tinder

Vibease

Vine

Biggest Social Impact:

Code.org

Crowdtilt

Edward Snowden’s NSA Revelations

StopWatching.Us

Watsi

Angel of the Year”

Steve Anderson

Michael Dearing

Keith Rabois

Naval Ravikant

Chris Sacca

VC of the Year:

Peter Fenton (Benchmark)

Jim Goetz (Sequoia Capital)

Reid Hoffman (Greylock Partners)

Bill Maris (Google Ventures)

Bijan Sabet (Spark Capital)

Founder of the Year:

Drew Houston (Dropbox)

David Karp (Tumblr)

Aaron Levie (Box)

Matthew Prince & Michelle Zatlyn (CloudFlare)

Deena Varshavskaya (Wanelo)

CEO of the Year:

Jeff Bezos (Amazon)

Dick Costolo (Twitter)

Travis Kalanick (Uber)

Marissa Mayer (Yahoo)

Elon Musk (Tesla Motors & SpaceX)

Best New Startup of 2013

Anki

Coinbase

Glow

Tinder

Whisper

Best Overall Startup of 2013:

CloudFlare

Kickstarter

Snapchat

Twitter

Uber

via Gigaom http://gigaom.com/2014/01/06/meet-the-finalists-for-the-2014-crunchies/