HackerNoon’s annual Startups ✨ of The Year 2024 is coming to an end 🎉 🎊 ✨ With over 4.1M votes aggregated and 151.4k startups nominated across 2.9k cities and 98 industries, this edition has been our largest yet!
What Does This Mean for Your Startup?
Being nominated among so many remarkable companies is an achievement in itself. Winning signifies that your startup ranks in the top 1%, making a significant impact globally and surpassing thousands of other contenders. You have every reason to brag!!!
⏰ Voting Deadline: March 31st, 2025
You have until March 31st, 2025, to cast your final votes and support your favorite startups.
Vote for your favorite startup now!
The winners will be announced in April 2025 after the HackerNoon team reviews the results. (yes – people cheat every.single.year 😤)
Our advice is to promote the sh*t out of this nomination (no, but really) to improve your startup’s chance of winning.
🏆 What Do Winners Get?
- Pride and validation from the HackerNoon team and community members.
Winner Interview .Evergreen Tech Company News Page.HackerNoon Merch for selected winners. Terms and conditions apply.
🗳️ Vote for the Best Startups
People can vote once per day per award. ✅
To find a company, industry or city, you can use the search bar on www.hackernoon.com/startups. You can also filter startups by industry and location. Within these filters, startups are ranked by the most votes received or most recent votes.
How does voting work?
- Vote for your favorite startup by clicking “Vote” next to the company name.
- Startups can belong to up to 3 industries but only 1 parent category and 1 location. Click Parent Category & Industry Guide below for more information.
- One True Vote: You can only vote for a company once. If you vote for a company using one filter (e.g., a specific industry), your vote will not count again if in the same session you vote for the same company using a different filter (e.g., another industry, or via location). Once you’ve voted for a company – it will become a universal vote regardless of how you find the company through different filters. The good news? The chances that a startup is discovered and voted for this year is increased 4 fold!
- We weigh votes to elevate the voice of our contributing writers further, reward verified expertise, and prevent spam. HackerNoon published writers’ votes count as 10, authenticated users’ votes count as 3, and unauthenticated visitors have their vote count as 1 (pending spam reviews).
The reasons for this are:
- The contributing writer, by publishing their words and expertise on Hacker Noon, has earned the right to have their voice count the most when it comes to who deserves HackerNoon rewards.
- Authenticated users have much lower spam rate so their vote should count more. We want to continue to ensure that anyone can vote. All users can vote once on each award in voting season.
Learn more on how to vote
Want to know who’s been leading the charge? Check it out here!
📣 Spread the Word!
Don’t keep this exciting news to yourself – share it with your friends, family, and colleagues. Encourage them to participate in the nominations and voting process, and let’s recognize the most innovative and impactful startups of 2024 together! Use the hashtag #startupsoftheyear or #soty2024 and tag us on social so we can find your post and reshare the love 💚
🚀Get Your Hands on a FREE HackerNoon Interview!
Because you were nominated, you have the exclusive opportunity to submit and publish a featured interview about your startup on HackerNoon—for FREE!
👉 All you need to do:
Last year, thousands of startups leveraged this opportunity to showcase their stories—gaining visibility among HackerNoon’s 5M+ monthly readers, industry leaders, and potential investors. See how they made their mark on HackerNoon.
⏰ Time is Running Out!
The clock is ticking, and the opportunity to support your favorite startup is slipping away.
Vote for your favorite startup now!
About HackerNoon’s Startups of The Year
Startups of The Year 2024 is HackerNoon’s flagship community-driven event celebrating startups, technology, and the spirit of innovation. Currently in its third iteration, the prestigious Internet award recognizes and celebrates tech startups of all shapes and sizes. This year, over 150,000 entities across 4200+ cities, 6 continents, and 100+ industries will participate in a bid to be crowned the best startup of the year! Millions of votes have been cast over the past few years, and many storieshave been written about these daring and rising startups.
The winners will get a free interview on HackerNoon and an Evergreen Tech Company News page.
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