The Shortlists

From over 1,000 entries, to a longlist of 600, we can now present the shortlists of over 200 startups across more than 20 categories. A definitive list of the most innovative and exciting tech companies in Europe.

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Best Lightweight Startup
Best Middleweight Startup
Best Heavyweight Startup
Best Transport, Travel or Environmental Startup
Best Culture Startup
Best Commerce, Finance or Payments Startup
Best Education Startup
Best Gaming or Social Games Startup
Best Entertainment, Audio or Video Startup
Best Social, Mobile or Apps Startup
Best Business, Recruitment or Enterprise Startup
Best Advertising or Marketing Tech Startup
Best Recruitment and Jobs Startup
Best Product Startup
Best European Startup Accelerator/Incubator
Best Startup From Outside Europe
Best Startup Founder/Co-founders
Best Startup Advisor/Mentor of the Year
Best Exit of the Year
Best Service Provider to Startups
Best Angel or Seed Investor of the Year
Best VC of the Year (Individual)
Best VC of the Year (Company)
Best Journalist of the Year
Regional Awards

Lightweight (Less than 12 months and/or less than €100,000 in funding)
Changers.com / Blacksquared GmbH
Highly Commended: Infogr.am
Keeeb
LazyPub
Maily
Highly Commended: Memoto
Winner: Sketchfab
Snap Fashion Ltd
Substance
Teddle

Best Middleweight Startup (Less than 3 years and/or less than €2m in funding)
CurrencyFair
Duedil
Gidsy
GoSquared
Love Home Swap
Mobino
Pusher
Readmill
Highly Commended: Swiftkey
Tado
Tjobs S.A.
Winner: TransferWise

Best Heavyweight Startup (3+ years and/or more than €2m in funding)
DataHug
Datasift
Delivery Hero
HAILO
Housetrip
iZettle
Mind Candy
MyTaxi
Skillpages
Highly Commended: Supercell
Winner: Wonga
Wooga
Wrapp
Zalando

Best Transport, Travel or Environmental Startup
AlterGeo
Highly Commended: BlaBlaCar
Gidsy
Love Home Swap
Masabi
Milk The Sun
Powerkiss
Winner: Shutl
Wattics

Best Culture (Fashion, Art, Music, Media) Startup
Housebites
24symbols
Emphas.is
LiveMusicStage
Winner: Lyst
Ovelin
Scoopinion
Skoobe
Soundrop
Zoobe

Best Commerce, Finance or Payments Startup
Balluun
Commerce Guys
Highly Commended: Dashlane
Freespee
Lyst
Mobino
Nutmeg
Seedrs
Tictail
Winner: Toshl
Yotpo

Best Education Startup
Highly Commended: Memrise
24 symbols
Agile Education Technologies
BraveNewTalent
Busuu
Eedu
Examtime
Infogr.am
Lernstift
Winner: Scolibri

Best Gaming or Social Games Startup
Big Bite Games
BragBet
FanDuel
HitFox Group
Makie Lab
Highly Commended: Playmob
Plumbee
Swrve
Vescape
Winner: Zeptolab

Best Entertainment, Audio or Video Startup
Anghami
Car Throttle
Highly Commended: Crane.tv
FanDuel
Fixational
Winner: Intellitix
Magine
Pictarine
Sketchfab

Tape.tv
Wirewax

Best Social, Mobile or Apps Startup
Conversocial
Datahug
Highly Commended: Everplaces
EyeEm
Highly Commended: Infogr.am
Jolicloud
Qubulus
Scandit
SocialBro
Swiftkey
Winner: Zeebox

Best Business, Recruitment or Enterprise Startup
Babelverse
Bonusbox
Conversocial
Winner: Datahug
Dropifi
Highly Commended: Duedil
Geckoboard
Hojoki
Nutmeg
Qamine

Best Advertising or Marketing Tech Startup
Adeven
Adzuna
BonusBox
buyapowa
Highly Commended: Conversocial
Intellitix
PeerIndex
scrazzl Ltd.
Skimlinks
Winner: Socialbakers
SuperExpo
Teleportd
Zoopla

Best Recruitment and Jobs Startup
Highly Commended: Adzuna
BraveNewTalent
Concept Cupboard
GooodJob
Winner: Intern Avenue
JobandTalent
MBA&Co
Mercury Puzzle
The Needle Online
WYGU

Best Product Startup
13th Lab
Chirp.io
DashLane
Winner: EyeEm
Geckoboard
Infogr.am
Mendeley
Shutl
SocialBro
Tado
Tictail

Best European Startup Accelerator/Incubator
Fastlane Ventures
Le Camping
Munich Startup Accelerator
Winner: Seedcamp
TechHub
GammaRebels
Openfund
Highly Commended: Springboard
Startup Sauna
Startup Weekend
StartupBootCamp
Team Europe
Wayra

Best Startup From Outside Europe
Balluun
Folloyu
Licensario
Markafoni
Mikro Odeme AS | 3pay
Nutrino
Opara
Winner: Paymentwall
Highly Commended: WalkMe
Zapier

Best Startup Founder/Co-founders
DataHug - Connor Murphy & Ray Smith
Hailo - Caspar Woolley, Terry Runham, Russell Hall, Jay Bregman, Gary Jackson & Ron Zeghibe

Huddle - Andy McLoughlin & Alastair Mitchell
Winner: Mendeley - Jan Reichelt, Paul Foeckler & Victor Henning
Mind Candy - Michael Acton Smith
Poikos - Eleanor Watson
Songkick - Ian Hogarth, Michelle You & Pete Smith
Highly Commended: SoundCloud - Eric Wahlforss & Alexander Ljung
Tictail - Siavash Ghorbani, Carl Waldekranz, Birk Nilson & Kaj Drobin
Transferwise - Taavet Hinrikus & Kristo Kaarmann
Wonga - Errol Damelin & Jonty Hurwitz
Zoopla - Alex Chesterman and Simon Kain

Best Startup Advisor/Mentor of the Year
Alex Farcet
Chris Grew
Jeremie Berrebi
Lukasz Gadowski
Winner: Max Niederhofer
Neil Rimer
Nic Brisbourne
Highly Commended: Philipp Moehring
Sitar Teli
Stefan Glaenzer

Best Exit of 2012
Winner: Face.com to Facebook
Fizzback to NICE Systems
Llustre to Fab
Moonfruit to Yell
Nik Software to Google
OneDrum to Yammer
Podio to Citrix
Pulpfingers to 500px
Highly Commended: Qype to Yelp
Sparrow to Google
Viewdle to Motorola
We7 to Tesco

Best Service Provider to Startups
2Pears
Winner: 33Seconds
Highly Commended: Ballou PR
Berlin Partner GmBH
Brown and Rudnick
Mercury Global Partners, LLC
Orrick
Spark PR
Taylor Wessing
TechHub

Best Angel or Seed Investor of the Year

Winner: Christophe Maire

Fabrice Grinda

Robin Klein

Tom Hulme

Best VC of the Year (Individual)

Ben Holmes (Index)

Ciaran O'Leary (Earlybird)

Mark Tluszcz (Mangrove)

Winner: Neil Rimer (Index)

Rainer Maerkle (Holtzbrink Ventures)

Sonali de Rycker (Accel Partners)