Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Dropbox Is The Best Overall Startup

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This year's fifth annual Crunchies Awards has just finished up at the classy Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, and it was a smashing success. We poked fun #humblebraggers, got cussed at by Siri, honored former TechCrunch CEO Heather Harde, and gave wild monkey trophies to tech's greatest innovators. If you missed the event or our livestream, check out the full list of nominees and winners below.

The world owes a thank you to Jack Dorsey, the "Founder Of The Year" and leader of Twitter, winner of "Biggest Social Impact". His poise and dedication helped keep the microblogging service online so it could aid revolutions. And a big congrats to Dropbox on its win for "Best Overall Startup". The company's young founders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi (seen below) demonstrated the power of the freemium model, and had the guts to turn down a 9 figure acquisition bid.

Here are the nominees and winners:

Best Technology Achievement

Lytro (Runner Up)

NFC

OnLive

Siri (Winner)

Tesla Flat Pack Battery

Best Social Application

Facebook Timeline

Instagram (Runner Up)

Google+ (Winner)

The New New Twitter

Path 2.0

Best Shopping Application

Birchbox

Fab  (Winner)

Gilt Groupe

Lot18

Warby Parker (Runner Up)

Best Mobile Application

Evernote (Winner)

Flipboard (Runner Up)

Pandora

Spotify

Square

TaskRabbit

Best Location Application

Airbnb

Foursquare

Grindr (Winner)

RunKeeper (Runner Up)

Uber

Best Tablet Application

djay

Eventbrite At the Door

Fotopedia (Winner)

GarageBand

Netflix (Runner Up)

StumbleUpon

Best Design

Gojee

Orchestra

Path 2.0  (Winner)

Pinterest (Runner Up)

Quora

Best Bootstrapped Startup (2010 winner: addmired)

Github (Runner Up)

Imgur (Winner)

Instapaper

Onesheet

Tap Tap Tap (Camera+)

Best Cloud Service

Asana

Box (Runner Up)

CloudFlare

Dropbox (Winner)

Okta

Twilio

Best International Startup

Badoo

Klarna (Runner Up)

Peixe Urbano (Winner)

Rovio

SoundCloud

Wonga

Best Clean Tech Startup

Alta Energy

Array Power (Runner Up)

EcoATM (Winner)

EcoMotors

Hara

Best New Device

Galaxy Nexus

iPad 2

iPhone 4S

Kindle Fire (Runner Up)

Nest (Winner)

Best Time Sink

Modern Warfare 3

Quora

Skyrim (Runner Up)

Turntable.fm

Words With Friends (Winner)

Biggest Social Impact

Charity: Water (Runner Up)

Khan Academy

Kickstarter

Practice Fusion

Twitter (Winner)

Angel of the Year

Ron Conway

Paul Graham

Reid Hoffman (Winner)

Keith Rabois

Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi (Runner Up)

Kevin Rose

VC of the Year

Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz (Winner)

Matt Cohler (Runner Up)

Vinod Khosla

Aileen Lee

Yuri Milner

David Sze

Founder of the Year

Leah Busque (Task Rabbit)

Brian Chesky (Airbnb)

Jack Dorsey (Square, Twitter) (Winner)

Susan Feldman & Ali Pincus (One Kings Lane)

Drew Houston (Dropbox) (Runner Up)

CEO of the Year

Dick Costolo (Twitter)

Daniel Ek (Spotify) (Runner Up)

Phil Libin (Evernote)

Mark Pincus (Zynga)

Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn) (Winner)

Best New Startup of 2011

Codecademy (Runner Up)

Fab

Nest

Pinterest (Winner)

Turntable.fm

Best Overall Startup of 2011

Dropbox (Winner)

Instagram

Gilt Groupe

Spotify

Square (Runner Up)

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Thanks to everyone who watched, voted, or attended the Crunchies. This award show is about the tech community, and we're honored to have you as our readers.



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