Tonight is the annual startup award event The Crunchies, which is hosted by TechCrunch. We thought it would be fun to see which finalists Mattermark would pick as the winner in each category, using our proprietary Mattermark Growth Score. Have fun at the awards, and best wishes to all the finalists!
Best On-Demand Service
Lyft
Best E-Commerce Application
Flipkart
Best Mobile Application
Yik Yak
Fastest-Rising Startup
Yik Yak
Best Health Startup
Zenefits
Best Design
Airbnb
Best Bootstrapped Startup
Grammarly
Best Enterprise Startup
Slack
Best International Startup
Spotify
Best Education Startup
Coursera
Best Hardware Startup
Oculus VR
Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop
BuzzFeed
Biggest Social Impact (I’m picking, because we don’t measure this)
Internet.org
Best Technology Achievement (another one where I’m just picking, since we don’t measure it)
Rosetta Mission’s Comet Landing
Angel of the Year
Kickstarter Backers of Oculus VR
VC of the Year
Peter Fenton (Benchmark)
Founder of the Year
Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos)
CEO of the Year
Tim Cook (Apple)
Best New Startup of 2014
Slack
Best Overall Startup of 2014
Uber
I guess we’ll see how we do!