Stand Up for the Champion Startups of the Year!

The wait is over! - it’s time to celebrate the champion startups of the world. Shout out to all of the participants in our 2023 Startups of the Year! You did a wonderful job showcasing your incredible startups and powering through another year.

Startups of the Year 2023 is a community-driven voting platform brought to you by HackerNoon that recognizes and celebrates tech startups changing technology and the world for the better. The award started on May 8th, 2023, where the internet nominated and voted for 30k startups around the world. The voting period remained open until December 31, 2023, and now we are here with the winner announcement after a comprehensive evaluation by the HackerNoon team.

From all of us at HackerNoon, thank YOU for your excellent campaign perseverance 🥺

This year has been awesome! Startups of the Year 2023 finished with 623k+ total total votes, up from 215k+ votes in the inaugural startup competition.

We look forward to seeing you again in the next campaign (stay tuned 😉)!

Without further ado, let us kick off the announcement by celebrating the cities with top votes per region for 2023 🎉

North America

1. Cleveland, Ohio (11,697 votes): Winner: Bloomfilter
2. Austin, Texas (8,835 votes) - Winner: SerpApi
3. San Francisco, California (5,564 votes) - Winner: Finch
4. SoMa, California (4,258 votes) - Winner: RELAYTO
5. Toronto, Canada, North America - (3339 votes) Winner: Windscribe
6. Seattle (3304 votes) - Winner: Vouched
7. Palo Alto, CA, North America (2716 votes) - Winner: Seccuri
8. Miami, FL, North America (2671 votes) - Winner: Salsa Valley
9. Manhattan, New York (2,613 votes) - Winner: Majhi Group
10. New York City, NY, North America (2423 votes) - Winner: Flieber, Inc.

Europe

1. London, UK (45,612 votes) - Winner: Algomo
2. Warsaw, Poland (2,344votes) - Winner: Data Lake
3. Bari, Italy (1,955 votes) - Winner: Hoken Tech
4. Amsterdam, Netherlands (1716 votes) - Winner: Not8
5. Frankfurt Am Main, Germany (1657 votes) - Winner: KYVE
6. Kyiv, Ukraine (1566 votes) - Winner: BazaIT
7. Tallinn, Estonia (1496 votes) - Winner: Unity Network
8. Ghent, Belgium (1,478 votes) - Winner: Volcaino
9. Dublin, Ireland (1,288 votes) - Winner: Owl Me
10. Paris, France (1198 votes) - Winner: Groover

Oceania

1. Melbourne (3,350 votes) - Winner: Sharepass

2. Perth, Australia (2,107 votes) - Winner: The Catfisher Project

3. Auckland, New Zealand, Oceania (220 votes) - Winner: Gemini AI Solutions

4. Wellington, New Zealand, Oceania (213 votes) - Winner: Nexustorage

5. Sydney (138 votes) - Winner: Coviu

6. Brisbane, Australia, Oceania (124 votes) - Winner: Bopple

7. New South Wales, Australia, Oceania (124 votes) - Winner: Regional CFO

8. Gold Coast, Australia, Oceania (106 votes) - Winner: Edit on the Spot

9. Canbera, Australia, Oceania (93 votes) - Winner: Knowledge Satnav

10. North Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Oceania (48 votes) - Winner: Peptalk360

    
    

Asia

1. Singapore (16,345 votes) - Winner: Serenity Shield

2. Telangana, India (13,588 votes) - Winners: QUIXY

3. Mumbai, India (10,168 votes) - Winner: HealthySure

4. Visakhapatnam, India (3,865 votes) - Winner: InterviewBuddy

5. Bengaluru, India (3,733 votes) - Winner: Omniflo

6. Tel Aviv (4589 votes) - Winner: MeNow

7. Dubai (3877 votes) - Winner: ForestVPN

8. Powai, Mumbai, India (2478 votes) - Winner: TechGraph

9. Ahmedabad, GJ, India (1004 votes) - Winner: Reelo

10. Hong Kong, China (875 votes) - Winner: Debt Hunter

    
    

Africa

1. Algiers, Algeria (8,179 votes) - Winner: GO PLATFORM

2. Accra, Ghana (767 votes) - Winner: Tudu

3. Lagos, Nigeria (415 votes) - Winner: Treford

4. Ogbomosho, Nigeria (265 votes) - Winner: Phalconwise

5. Cairo (157 votes) - Winner: AbuErdan

6. Lekki (151 votes) - Winner: Eazipay

7. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (144 votes) - Winner: Mazao Hub

8. Gauteng, South Africa (101 votes) - Winner: faceATT

9. Cape Town (79 votes) - Winner: Dimagi

10. Addis Ababa (71 votes) - Winner: Sabi

    
    

South America

1. Santiago, Chile (376 votes ) - Winner: UpGirl

2. Sao Paulo, Brazil (217 votes) - Winner: Klever

3. Buenos Aires, Argentina (191 votes) - Winner: Tributo Simple

4. Montevideo, Uruguay (127 votes) - Winner: Light-it

5. Antioquia, Colombia (87 votes) -Winner: Thousand

6. Lima (108 votes) - Winner: GetLavado

7. Medellin (101 votes) - Winner: Cogniflow

8. Bogota (73 votes) - Winner: TPAGA

9. Quito (73 votes) - Winner: Reliv

10. Cordoba (47 votes) - WInner: Quantex

    
    

Misc/Remote: Featured Startups

• Remote, Earth (1500 votes) - Winner: CIC Chain
• US Misc (1193 votes) - Winner: Reship Colony
• UK, Misc (146 Votes) - Winner: Partful
• British Virgin Islands Misc (116 votes) - Winner: GoMining
• Germany Misc (283 Votes) - Winner: tomorrowSpace
• Cayman Islands (225 votes) - Winner: Dtravel

Once again, HUGE CONGRATULATIONS and BIG PROPS to all of the top Startups of each region this year!

The whole team at HackerNoon would like to thank you for your perseverance in the campaign, and we look forward to seeing you in the next campaign.

About HackerNoon’s Startups Of The Year

Startups of The Year is HackerNoon’s Flagship community-driven event celebrating startups that survived and thrived in 2023. 30,000 startups across 4200+ cities and six continents participated this year to be crowned the best startup in their city.

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