Startups of The Year 2024 is HackerNoon’s flagship community-driven event celebrating startups, technology, and the spirit of innovation. This year, in its third iteration, the prestigious internet award recognizes and celebrates tech startups of all shapes and sizes, with over 150,000 entities across 4,200+ cities, 6 continents, and 100+ industries participating in a bid to be crowned the best startup of the year! Millions of votes have been cast over the past few years, and many more stories have been written about these daring and rising startups.

Startups of The Year 2024 is brought to you by HackerNoon, Wellfound, Notion, Hubspot, Bright Data, and Algolia!

The event goes live on September 30th, 2024, allowing the Internet to nominate and vote for their favorite startups. The nomination period ends 1 month after the event begins, on October 31st, 2024. The voting period ends 6 months later, on March 31st, 2025 and winners will be announced in April 2025.

Startups of The Year 2023 received three times as much votes than in 2021 and concluded with 623k+ total votes, up from 215k+ votes in the inaugural startup competition. Check out last year’s winners below:

North America || Europe || Africa || Asia || South America || Oceania