Chelsea Peretti headlines 'Crunchies' awards

Hosting an awards show for the kind of celebrities that spend most of their time behind their computers rather than on the red carpet sounds tough, but comedian Chelsea Peretti said she was ready for tonight’s "Crunchies."

TechCrunch’s annual Crunchies award show, which dubs itself "the Oscars of startups and technology," showcases the best in pioneering tech startups, entrepreneurs and investors.

"I am excited to talk about Postmates and Uber, just to get some things off my chest," Peretti joked. "So that will be personally therapeutic.”

Tonight's show, which took place at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, gave awards including Best New Startup, Best Mobile App, Best Technology Achievement, Hardware of the Year, CEO of the Year and, the newest honor, the Include Diversity Award for an organization or individual that has advanced diversity in tech.

Ned Desmond, COO of TechCrunch, said this year’s Crunchies were planned to be unlike the eight that came before.

"It’s a very different atmosphere,” Desmond says, noting that the Crunchies' board was kept secret until yesterday, physical ballots were tallied by an outside law firm and video production will be stepped up from last year. "We don’t know who has won at all until they open the envelope on stage … It will feel a bit more like an awards show that is produced for TV."

Here are the nominees for the categories, and the winners that were announced:

Slack took home the fastest rising startup award, and a team of women of color accepted it.

Slack's Steward Butterfield also won the founder award, with Tristan Walker of Walker and Co. as runner-up.

Kimberly Bryant of Black Girls Code took home this award. She used the stage to give a shout-out to the other nominees.

Winner: Samsung Gear VR.

Winner: SpaceX Falcon 9. The runner-up was Tesla's over-the-air autopilot, another Elon Musk achievement.

Winner: Bill Gurley, Benchmark partner who's been sounding the alarm on tech bubbles.

Scott and Cyan Banister took home the award for best angel investor. The couple, according to TechCrunch, is "an investment power couple with money in Uber, SpaceX and many other high-profile startups."

Uber took it home.

Facebook Messenger head David Marcus took the stage to accept the best mobile app award.

Honor, an app and service that matches at home caregivers with patients, took home the award. Recently, it made news for switching the classification of its workforce to employees from independent contractors. 

CEO of the year went to Mark Zuckerberg.

Code.org won "best social impact."