On December 31, 2012, The audience of Dutch online entrepreneurs magazine Sprout.nl voted for Scoupy as ‘best startup of 2012′
Sprout.nl made a shortlist of 12 start-ups and asked the audience to vote; in an online poll which ran from December 10 till December 30, Scoupy was able to gather 47% of all audience votes. Scoupy (and others) did use some creative ways to get more votes
Peerby, another SanomaVentures portfolio company, came in third after WakaWaka, the solar-powered led light for electricity deprived areas.