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Watch the Crunchies live stream here

Tom Krazit — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 01:00:39 +0000

If you want to watch the Crunchies tonight, you’re going to have to tune in, as tickets have sold out for the annual awards show co-hosted by GigaOM, Techcrunch, and Venturebeat.

The livestream below should kick off around 7pm, and the event starts at 730pm at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. Most of our San Francisco-based crew will be in attendance, probably just to get a chance to hear comedian John Oliver of Daily Show fame host the show.

A list of nominees follows below.

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Best Technology Achievement
Baumgartner Jump
Google Glass
Mars Curiosity
SpaceX docks with International Space Station
Tesla Supercharger Network

Best Collaborative Consumption Service
Airbnb
Get It Now/Postmates
Lyft
TaskRabbit
Uber

Best E-Commerce Application
Fab
Hotel Tonight
Karma/Facebook Gifts
Warby Parker
Zulily

Best Mobile Application
Evernote
Google Maps
Grindr
Instagram
Square

Fastest Rising Startup
Exec
Lyft
Pinterest
Snapchat
Stripe

Best Content Discovery Application
Flipboard
Instapaper
Pinterest
Prismatic
Tumblr

Best Design
Facebook Timeline
Medium
Paper by FiftyThree
Square
Svbtle

Best Bootstrapped Startup
FreshBooks
Instapaper
Nimbus
Techmeme
Upverter

Sexiest Enterprise Startup
Asana
Box
Cloudera
Plexxi
Zendesk

Best International Startup
Hailo
Rovio
Soundcloud
Spotify
Xiaomi

Best Education Startup
Codecademy
Coursera
Edmodo
Khan Academy
Udacity

Best Hardware Startup
Lit Motors
Lockitron
Makerbot
Nest
Raspberry Pi

Best Time Sink
Angry Birds Star Wars
Buzzfeed
Letterpress
Pinterest
WhatsApp

Biggest Social Impact
Donors Choose
Indiegogo
Kickstarter
Kiva
Reddit

Angel of the Year
Michael Arrington
Chris Dixon
Paul Graham
David Lee
Chris Sacca

VC of the Year
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz
Matt Cohler
Jim Goetz
Michael Moritz
Peter Thiel

Founder of the Year
Nathan Blecharczyk, Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia (Airbnb)
Kevin and Julia Hartz (Eventbrite)
Elon Musk (SpaceX, Tesla)
Kevin Systrom (Instagram)
Nir Zuk (Palo Alto Networks)

CEO of the Year
Dick Costolo (Twitter)
Phil Libin (Evernote)
Marissa Mayer (Yahoo!)
Larry Page (Google)
Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)

Best New Startup of 2012
Coursera
Crowdtilt
Lyft
Snapchat
Waze

Best Overall Startup of 2012
Fab
Github
Instagram
Palantir
Square

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More tickets released for the 2013 Crunchies — and don’t forget to vote

Om Malik — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:49:37 +0000

It is that time of the year – where you go shopping, eat a lot more than you should, party way too much and of course, gear up for the new year. And the new year brings you the technology industry’s annual celebration of innovation and entrepreneurship: the Crunchies, an event we co-host with our colleagues over at TechCrunch and VentureBeat. In other words, it is time for you to snag the tickets that are up for grabs. Today, we are releasing the second batch of tickets and of course, vote for all your favorite startups. And yes, there is an after-party!

Submit nominations for your favorite startups, apps, cloud services and more in the 20 categories now through December 6. (Do that here!), and don’t forget to buy your tickets now. Nominations close at 11:59pm PT on December 6, 2012. We’ll announce the finalists on January 3, 2013, and open up the final round of voting then. (You’ll find all the rules here.)

Mark it on your calendars:
Thursday, January 31, 2013
7:30pm – 11:30pm
Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall
201 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco

This year’s categories (and last year’s winners):
Best Technology Achievement (2011: Siri)
Best Collaborative Consumption Service (New for 2012)
Best E-Commerce Application (New for 2012)
Best Mobile Application (2011: Evernote)
Fastest Rising Startup (New for 2012)
Best Content Discovery Application (New for 2012)
Best Design (2011: Path 2.0)
Best Bootstrapped Startup (2011: Imgur)
Sexiest Enterprise Startup (New for 2012)
Best International Startup (2011: Peixe Urbano)
Best Education Startup (New for 2012)
Best Hardware Startup (New for 2012)
Best Time Sink (2011: Words With Friends)
Biggest Social Impact (2011: Twitter)
Angel of the Year (2011: Reid Hoffman)
VC of the Year (2011: Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz)
Founder of the Year (2011: Jack Dorsey)
CEO of the Year (2011: Jeff Weiner)
Best New Startup of 2012 (2011: Pinterest)
Best Overall Startup of 2012 (2011: Dropbox)

Check out additional coverage from our partners: Techcrunch and VentureBeat.

Get your tickets now for the Crunchies

Tom Krazit — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:00:10 +0000

Tickets are now on sale for the Crunchies, the sixth annual gathering of Silicon Valley around cocktails and awards for the best tech on the planet. Don’t miss your chance to see the best and brightest minds and products our industry has to offer this coming January in San Francisco.

We’re proud to be part of the Crunchies along with our friends at Techcrunch and Venturebeat, and can’t wait to see the rest of you too. Nominations opened up last week in a number of important categories — such as Best New Startup of the Year, CEO of the Year and Best Technology Achievement.

So don’t forget to nominate your favorites (do that here!), and don’t forget to buy your tickets now. Nominations close at 11:59pm PT on December 6, 2012. We’ll announce the finalists on January 3, 2013, and open up the final round of voting then. (You’ll find all the rules here.)

Mark it on your calendars:
Thursday, January 31, 2013
7:30pm – 11:30pm
Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall
201 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco

Check out more coverage from our partners Techcrunch and Venturebeat.

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It’s Crunchies time again! Get your nominations in

Nicole Solis — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:00:31 +0000

The movie industry has the Oscars. The music industry has the Grammys. And tech, of course, has the Crunchies.

Once again, GigaOM is cohosting the annual awards show, along with our friends at TechCrunch and VentureBeat, to celebrate the world of startups and technology. And we need your help.

We need you — the founders, VCs, technologists, and all our readers — to help us find the most innovative companies, the savviest investors, the technologies that will actually change our world. Nominations are now open for all 20 categories — including old standbys like Best Overall Startup and VC of the Year as well as new ones like Best Collaborative Consumption Service and Sexiest Enterprise Startup (it’s only an oxymoron if you don’t know the space).

Get your picks in soon. Nominations close at 11:59 pm PT on December 6, 2012. We’ll announce the finalists on January 3, 2013, and open up the final round of voting then. (You’ll find all the rules here.)

Mark it on your calendars:
Thursday, January 31, 2013
7:30pm – 11:30pm
Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall
201 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco

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Vote now for the Crunchies!

Nicole Solis — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:00:22 +0000

The Iowa caucuses are over, but we’re facing another important vote this month. After receiving thousands of submissions for the Crunchies nominations, we have our finalists for the annual tech awards. And it’s up to you to vote for the winner.

Siri got a lot of attention from both the mainstream and tech media, but do you think that it deserves best technology achievement over Lytro, NFC, OnLive and Tesla Flat Pack Battery? Some huge updates to social applications — the new new Twitter, Path 2.0 and Facebook Timeline — are battling it out with Google+ and Instagram for best social application. In addition to the familiar categories such as best mobile application and best startup, you can also vote on three new categories: best location app, best cloud service and biggest social impact.

We’re also releasing a new block of tickets. Act fast to make sure you get a seat at the awards show, which will be held on Tuesday, January 31, at Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, Calif.

Voting closes Sunday, January 29, at 11:59 PM PST.

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More Crunchies tickets go on sale today

Nicole Solis — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:08:38 +0000

The second batch of 250 tickets to the Crunchies, the annual tech awards show hosted by GigaOM, TechCrunch and VentureBeat, are going on sale right now. The last batch sold out within hours, so act fast if you want to get in on this round of tickets.

The Crunchies, now in its fifth year, highlights the most forward-thinking startups, innovative technologies and best VCs. This year, it will be held on January 31, 2012, in a new venue, Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco.

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Crunchies tickets go on sale today

Nicole Solis — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:00:38 +0000

Updated. The first round of 200 tickets to the Crunchies go on sale today at 10 a.m. The Crunchies, the annual tech innovation awards show hosted by GigaOM, TechCrunch and VentureBeat, will be held January 31, 2012, at Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco.

Update: And the first batch is already sold out. We’ll post an announcement when the next round goes on sale.

After you get your ticket, make sure you nominate your favorite startup, angel investor and VC. Nominations close at midnight tonight. The finalists will be revealed in early January.

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Get ready for the Crunchies!

Nicole Solis — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:18:14 +0000

Hard to believe, but we’re already gearing up for the 2011 Crunchies. Once again, GigaOM is co-hosting the annual event, which celebrates innovation and new technology, with our colleagues over at TechCrunch and VentureBeat.

The award ceremony and after-party will be held Tuesday, January 31, 2012, at a new venue — Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. We’ll have twice the capacity of previous shows. As usual, tickets will be released in batches, starting in early December.

Submit nominations for your favorite startups, apps, cloud services and more in the 20 categories now through December 13. (Read all the rules here.) Finalists will be announced in early January.

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It’s Time to Get Your Vote On for the Crunchies Finalists

Edit Staff — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:05:57 +0000

The nominees are out for the 2010 Crunchies awards with contenders like Mark Zuckerberg and Dick Costolo duking it out for the title of CEO of the Year or Quora and Flipboard for Best Startup or Product. Oh, and Groupon is in there too, because you can’t turn down a rumored $6 billion offer from Google without getting noticed. So, in only two weeks we’ll gather at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco to celebrate the 2010 Crunchies Award Winners — but before we do we need you guys to click on over to check out the full list of nominees and vote.

The event will be held on January 21, 2011 at the Palace of Fine Arts. The awards ceremony is at 7:30 pm at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater, after which we’ll hit the Exploratorium for an after party that starts at 9 pm and lasts until 11:30. We’re also using the nominations as a reason to get wild and release a new batch of tickets for the event, so hustle on over to Eventbrite (another nominee) and shell out the $75 to come party with our co-hosts VentureBeat and TechCrunch. We’ve been doing this for four years now, so we know how to throw an exciting party.

So check out the nominees and cast your vote for the 2010 Crunchies Award. Everyone is eligible and encouraged to vote. You may vote once per day, in each of the 20 award categories, until voting closes on January 19, 2011 at 11:59pm PST. We hope to see y’all there.

More Crunchies Tickets on Sale Today

Sebastian Rupley — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:00:22 +0000

The second batch of tickets for the third annual Crunchies awards ceremony — scheduled to be held on Jan. 8 at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco — goes on sale today, here, starting at noon PST. You can also still vote for the tech people, products and companies that are finalists.

We will once again be co-hosting the Crunchies awards, with VentureBeat and TechCrunch. The awards ceremony, which will kick off at 7:30 p.m. on the 8th, will be followed by an after-party at San Francisco’s City Hall’s Grand Rotunda.

You can vote for your favorite finalists from each of this year’s 18 award categories here. You can also find the rules here. Everyone is eligible and encouraged to vote once per day, per award category, through Wed., Jan. 6 at midnight PST. Orchestra seats are sold out at this point, and and balcony tickets are $45, so get your tickets now if you want to attend the ceremony.

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