Firstly, we want to thank all of our amazing applicants (and we had quite a few!), our phenominal judges, the invaluable help of all of our volunteers , and Digitas + Mullen for letting us use their beautiful (respective) spaces for our judging.
Without further ado, the Finalists for the 2012 MITX Innovation Awards are...
Best “Doing Good” Innovation
- Academic Room
- Gazelle
- Participatory Culture Foundation
- Practically Green
- ScreenRetriever
- Temperature@lert
Best Bootstrapped Start-Up
- Bluetrain Mobile
- CraveLabs, Inc.
- KangoGift
- Raizlabs
- Temperature@lert
- ZOORA
Business Operations Simplifier
- aPriori Inc.
- DynamicOps
- LaunchSquad for OfficeDrop
- LiquidPixels, Inc.
- Locately
- TraceLink Inc.
Best Commerce Transformer/Game Changer
- Cartera Commerce, Inc.
- LiquidPixels, Inc.
- Modiv Media, Inc.
- Privy
- SCVNGR, Inc
- Zmags
Best Consumer Tech that Makes Life Easier
- Lifeables
- SavingStar
- Springpad
- True Fit
- Tymefly
- Ziptr
Best Contribution to Innovation by a University/College
- Boston College
- Harvard Innovation Lab
- Northeastern Entrepreneurs Club
Best Customer Engagement Driver
- Affinnova, Inc.
- HubSpot Inc.
- Pangea Media/ SnapApp
- TalkTo
- Vsnap
- WordStream, Inc.
Best Mobile App
- Brainshark, Inc.
- EverTrue
- Kaon Interactive
- Nuance Communications
- Springpad
- TripAdvisor
Best Mobile Solution
- Brainshark, Inc.
- Crashlytics
- Modo Labs, Inc.
- Nexage
- SCVNGR, Inc
- Staples, Inc.
Best Use of Game Mechanics
- Alleyoop
- Bullhorn
- Practically Green
- The Tap Lab
Best User Experience
- Apperian, Inc.
- Brass Monkey
- fresh tilled soil
- HubSpot Inc.
- Nuance Communications
- TripAdvisor
Best Wellness Innovation
- Ginger.io
- GymPact
- ScreenRetriever
- Segterra
Most Insightful: Analytics/ Business Intelligence
- Crashlytics
- InsightSquared
- Locately
- True Fit
- WordStream, Inc.
- Yieldbot