VOTING IS NOW CLOSED.

With so many talented entrepreneurs and innovative startups in Canada, Techvibes deemed it a necessity to recognize, honour, and celebrate these people and their companies. For four years now the Canadian Startup Awards have been doing just that.

This year, Techvibes received over 3,500 nominations across six categories via comments, email, tweets, and our nomination form. Finalists were determined by you, our readers, with guidance from the editorial team. Each category has either three or six finalists.

Voting is open until 11pm PST on Sunday, January 25 and the winners will be announced on Monday, January 26. One vote per person.

VOTING IS NOW CLOSED.

STARTUP of THE YEAR 2014

• Bench (Vancouver)

• Figure1 (Toronto)

• Gallop Labs (Toronto)

• OMsignal (Montreal)

• Slack (Vancouver)

• VarageSale (Toronto)

ENTREPRENEUR of THE YEAR 2014

• Allen Lau (Wattpad)

• Cameron Chell (Trace)

• LP Maurice (BusBud)

• Stephen Lake (Thalmic Labs)

• Stewart Butterfield (Slack)

• Stephen Ufford (Trulioo)

EMPLOYER of THE YEAR 2014

• Wattpad (Toronto)

• FreshBooks (Toronto)

• Shopify (Ottawa)

VENTURE CAPITAL FIRM of THE YEAR 2014

• Relay Ventures

• OMERS Ventures

• Version One Ventures

ANGEL of THE YEAR 2014

• Dan Debow (Toronto)

• Shafin Diamond Tejani (Vancouver)

• Martin-Luc Archambaut (Montreal)

ACCELERATOR GRADUATE of THE YEAR 2014

• BitLit of GrowLab

• Sciencescape of Extreme Startups

• Vanhawks of FounderFuel

• Control of Invoke Labs

• Blynk of The Next 36

• Uplette of Extreme Startups and 500 Startups

VOTING IS NOW CLOSED.

With so many talented entrepreneurs and innovative startups in Canada, Techvibes deemed it a necessity to recognize, honour, and celebrate these people and their companies. Presented by KPMG, the Canadian Startup Awards do just that.

This year, Techvibes received well over 1,200 nominations across the six categories via comments, email, tweets, and our nomination form. Finalists were determined by you, our readers, with guidance from the editorial team. In the case of the Best Overall Startup category, we allowed six finalists.

Voting is open until 11:59pm PST on Friday, January 25 and the winners will be announced on Monday, January 28. One vote per person.

Vote for your favourites below.

Voting has closed – stay tuned for the winners.

BEST OVERALL CANADIAN STARTUP of 2012

• Shopify (Ottawa)

• Indochino (Vancouver)

• 500px (Toronto)

• Payfirma (Vancouver)

• Wave (Toronto)

• Vidyard (Waterloo)

BEST NEW CANADIAN STARTUP of 2012

• Frank & Oak (Montreal)

• Hubba (Toronto)

• Cinemagram (Montreal)

CANADIAN ENTREPRENEUR of 2012

• Ryan Holmes (HootSuite)

• Tobias Lutke (Shopify)

• Jevon MacDonald (GoInstant)

CANADIAN ANGEL of 2012

• Randy Thompson

• Dan Martell

• Mike Edwards

CANADIAN VENTURE CAPITAL FIRM of 2012

• Real Ventures

• Omers Ventures

• iNovia Capital

MOST SIGNIFICANT ACQUISITION of 2012

• BufferBox acquired by Google

• GoInstant acquired by Salesforce

• Summify acquired by Twitter