Angels came away with two big awards at the MITX Innovation Awards dinner last week; honored were the Common Angels and Bill Warner.

The CommonAngels was named Investor of the Year based on having the most portfolio companies making it to the finalist stage. “This award is a great honor,” says Common Angels Managing Director Chris Sheehan. “As investors, it’s a privilege to have invested in five MITX finalists – Apperian, Crashlytics, Insight Squared, Practically Green, and Yieldbot.  All these teams are building really innovative companies here in Boston.”

Entrepreneur and angel investor Bill Warner was inaugurated into the MITX Innovation Hall of Fame. He is widely known in our angel community for creating the MassTLC Innovation unConference and for his role in bringing TechStars to Boston.

The MITX Innovation Awards are described as “a competition that celebrates the innovations powering the future of marketing and revolutionizing the way we work and play.”

 

The 2012 MITX Innovation Awards Winners Circle:
Best Bootstrapped Start-Up Temperature@lert
Best Business Operations Simplifier aPriori Inc.
Best Commerce Transformer/Game Changer Catalina Marketing
Best Consumer Tech that Makes Life Easier True Fit
Best Contribution to Innovation by a University/College Northeastern Entrepreneurs Club & IDEA
Best Customer Engagement Driver WordStream, Inc.
Best “Doing Good” Innovation Temperature@lert
Best Mobile App Springpad
Best Mobile Solution SCVNGR, Inc
Best Use of Game Mechanics Practically Green
Best User Experience Brass Monkey
Best Wellness Innovation Ginger.io
Most Insightful: Analytics/ Business Intelligence True Fit
Best of Show SavingStar
PwC Promise Award Crashlytics
PwC Promise Award Evertrue
Investor of the Year CommonAngels