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Cosign Awards 2026

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The people, companies and products that were the most impactful in 2026.

46 awards

Cosign up to five nominees per award. Cosigns are anonymous.

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People

18 awards

Future Founders

16 nominees

Rising Stars

57 nominees

Engineering

48 nominees

FDE

40 nominees

Product

47 nominees

Design

59 nominees

AI Researchers

42 nominees

Marketing

44 nominees

Comms

55 nominees

Growth

50 nominees

Chief of Staff

31 nominees

Operations

51 nominees

Talent

38 nominees

Finance

40 nominees

Public Intellectuals

49 nominees

Podcaster of the Year

44 nominees

Newsletter Author of the Year

45 nominees

Poster of the Year

33 nominees

Companies

10 awards

Rising Stars

40 nominees

Best Place to Work

32 nominees

Founder Mafia

27 nominees

Talent Density

31 nominees

Highest Aura

41 nominees

Biotech Startup of the Year

10 nominees

Energy Startup of the Year

6 nominees

Robotics Startup of the Year

9 nominees

Defense & Space Startup of the Year

6 nominees

Healthcare Startup of the Year

7 nominees

Products

18 awards

Products show community cosign counts

Product of the Year

18 nominees

Launch of the Year

16 nominees

AI Assistant

16 nominees

AI Language Model

15 nominees

AI Coding

23 nominees

Dev Tools

23 nominees

Open Source

20 nominees

Consumer

18 nominees

Productivity

16 nominees

Creative & Media Tools

21 nominees

Product Design & UX

18 nominees

Enterprise B2B

20 nominees

Hardware

16 nominees

Robotics

17 nominees

Self-Driving

16 nominees

Healthcare

19 nominees

Vertical Fintech

18 nominees

Legal

15 nominees

The judges

21

Qasar Younis

Applied Intuition

Amjad Masad

Anish Acharya

Garry Tan

Scott Belsky

Josh Elman

Gagan Biyani 🏛

Andrew Chen

Shuo Wang

Avichal Garg - Electric ϟ Capital

Electric Capital

David Haber

Fidji Simo

Steven Sinofsky

Ryan Hoover

Justine Moore

Olivia Moore

Sriram Krishnan

Former White House

Packy McCormick

Gokul Rajaram

Ben Silbermann

Lenny Rachitsky

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