Kudos to iMedix for winning the Crunchies award for Best New Startup at Herbst theater San Francisco . iMedix has beaten some impressive contenders in the process: Hulu, Tumblr, Joost and Ribbit.
I fist wrote about iMedix in December, when they officially launched WebMd on steroids. iMeidx was founded by Amir Leitersdorf and Iri Amirav to enable users to find and share medical information in a single platform.
The rest of the Israeli finalists didn’t bring home the award, but the nomination itself puts these early stage startups on the global internet map.
Below is the full list of Crunchies winners in the various categories:
Best Overall: Facebook
Best technology innovation / achievement: Earthmine
Best Clean Tech Startup: Tesla Motors
Best video startup: Hulu
Best user-generated content site: Digg
Best mobile start-up: Twitter.
Best International startup: Netvibes
Best consumer startup: Meebo
Best enterprise startup: Zoho
Best design: SmugMug
Best new gadget/ device: Apple iPhone
Best business model: Zazzle
Best bootstrapped startup: Techmeme.
Best Startup Founder: Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)
Best Startup CEO: Toni Schneider (Automattic)
Best new startup: iMedix
Most likely to succeed: Automattic (WordPress)
Best use of viral marketing: StumbleUpon
Best time sink site:Kongregate
He is a former General Partner at Google Ventures (GV) in Europe, former head of Google for Entrepreneurs in Europe, and founding head of Campus London, Google's first startup hub. Eze writes on Israeli tech, venture capital, artificial intelligence, and founder strategy.
He is also the founder of Techbikers, a nonprofit that brings together the startup ecosystem on cycling challenges in support of Room to Read.
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