Curalate wins Philebrity’s Business of the Year [Startup Roundup]

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WHO’S MAKING MOVES

Ticketleap [find our previous coverage here]: The Center City-based ticketing startup announced integration with Passbook on iOS 6, according to a release.

Solve Media [find our previous coverage here]: Center City advertising startup built a most epic Rube Goldberg machine for its holiday video. Check it out below.

WHAT’S AFFECTING STARTUPS

Tax policy [find our previous coverage here]: Councilman Bill Green introduced a bill last week that would tax software companies only on sales made inside the city, we reported this week. Find our analysis here.

WHO’S GETTING BUZZ

Whims [find our previous coverage here]: The local startup, which calls itself “Instagram for words,” gets featured in Geekadelphia.

Curalate [find our previous coverage here]: The Pinterest analytics firm based in University City won Philebrity’s award for Business of the Year. We’re not bitter at all. (Curalate also won the Philly Geek Award for Startup of the Year.) Also check out Curalate cofounders in the hilarious First Round Capital holiday video, which also features the cofounders of local startup Perceptual Networks and the Monetate team (in a barn).

SnipSnap [find our previous coverage here]: Keystone Edge and Nibletz cover the couponing app’s recent update to version 2.0, which we covered last week.

Monetate [find our previous coverage here]: An infographic by the Conshohocken ecommerce optimization company gets named as one of Econsultancy’s best infographics of 2012. In other news, Monetate cofounder David Bookspan, who also cofounded DreamIt Ventures, gets profiled in Keystone Edge.

Clutch: Try this new mobile shopping app that we covered this week. It was built by a startup based out of Lansdale, Pa.

Belly: A Chicago-based loyalty rewards app recently expanded to Philly, we reported this week.