LAUNCH Festival 2012 Winners

[ Space Monkey won Best Overall in the 1.0 competition. LAUNCH founder Jason Calacanis (far left) and Brad Gerstner, founder of LAUNCH '11 winner Room 77 (far right) presented the award. More photos of the LAUNCH Festival here. ]

The LAUNCH Festival Grand Jury chose 12 winners in all on March 8 -- six in the 1.0 competition, five in the 2.0 competition, and one overall winner from the DEMO Pit. Here they are by category.

For a complete list of official competitors, check out our spreadsheet.


1.0  WINNERS
These are brand-new companies that received no press or blog coverage prior to launching at the LAUNCH Festival. 

Best Overall   
Space Monkey

Best Design   
Minbox

Best Technology   
Captricity

Best Business Model   
Appstack

Best Presentation   
That's Suspicious Behavior

Diamond in the Rough   
Copper
   

2.0 WINNERS
These are existing companies that launched a new product, a new version of their product or pivoted.
  
Best Overall
Alltuition

Best Design   
Wanderfly

Best Technology   
YouEye

Best Business Model   
Docstoc

Best Presentation   
Vocre
    
    
DEMO PIT
The DEMO Pit -- which had 200 companies this year, including the 42 official competitors -- was open to all startups that were less than 18 months old. Some startups launched in the DEMO Pit while others promoted their existing product.

Best Overall
Scoot Networks