Winners of the 2012 Canadian Startup Awards

For a second year in a row, TechVibes hosted The Canadian Startup Awards. After two months of nominations and voting by readers, the winners of the 2012 awards, presented by KPMG, were announced last week. Here they are:

• BEST OVERALL CANADIAN STARTUP OF 2012 –  Indochino

• BEST NEW CANADIAN STARTUP OF 2012 –  Frank & Oak

• CANADIAN ENTREPRENEUR OF 2012 –Ryan Holmes (HootSuite)

• CANADIAN ANGEL OF 2012 – Dan Martell

• CANADIAN VC FIRM OF 2012 – iNovia Capital

• MOST SIGNIFICANT ACQUISITION of 2012 – Summify Acquired by Twitter

This year, 18,000 votes were cast – this is up 60% from last year! On behalf of the firm, we want to congratulate our client Frank & Oak on their big win. An honourable mention also goes out to clients Shopify, Vidyard, and GoInstant.