Friday, June 20, 2014

[NEWS] 2014 @MoxieAwards Winners: Best of Chicago's Startup & Tech Scene

Congrats to all of the winners of last night's annual Moxie Awards event, produced by BuiltIn Chicago, who did a great job, as usual.  You are all well-deserving of your wins, and you are doing great things to make Chicago's startup and tech ecosystem world class.  Keep up the great work!

Best Consumer Web Startup:  SpotHero

Best B2B Startup:  TempoDB

Best New Startup:  Civis Analytics

Best Startup Co-Founders:  Jimmy Odom, Daniela Bolzmann & Kirk Lashley of WeDeliver

Best Service Provider:  VineSprout PR

Digital Agency of the Year:  Rise Interactive

Mentor of the Year:  Chuck Templeton of Impact Engine

Investor of the Year:  Stuart Larkins of Chicago Ventures

Tech Woman of the Year:  Kristi Ross at dough

CTO of the Year:  Aaron Rankin at Sprout Social

Best Software Company:  Signal (formerly BrightTag)

Startup of the Year:  Sprout Social

Best Company Culture:  Centro

Best Enterprise Web Company:  kCura

Breakthrough Digital Company of the Year:  GrubHub

CEO of the Year:  Amanda Lannert of Jellyvision


And a special shout-out to our Red Rocket client, ViaForensics; FireStarter Fund porfolio company, Hireology; and our Ensemble partners, Walker Sands and Ora Interactive, for your nominations.  The full list of nominees can be seen at this link.


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