MUMBAI: Mobile platform, Line, has bagged the 2015 Crunchies Award for Best International Startup at the 8th Annual Crunchies Awards organised by Tech Crunch and VentureBeat.

The Annual Crunchies Awards is a ceremony to congratulate startups that achieved the most buzz that year, as well as praise the latest IT innovations. The 8th hosting of the event brought together the hottest startups at the Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on 5 February, 2015.

As a startup active on the global stage, Line was nominated for ‘Best International Startup’ from among 20 categories, beating out other nominated favourites like Kik, Spotify, Citymapper, EyeEm and more for the title of The 2015 Crunchies Award for Best International Startup.

Line spokesperson Damandeep Singh Soni said, “We are extremely proud to receive such an illustrious award, and would like to express our deepest gratitude to all users and everyone else supporting Line who voted for us. I look forward to sharing the joy of this award with all our employees, users, and fans. We hope to take this success and use it to provide an even more revolutionary and superior service in the future, and look forward to your continued support.”