InTheCapital recaps its ‘50 on Fire’ awards

Despite the fierce competition, everyone seemed to be having a blast. InTheCapital threw a party at the Howard Theater last Thursday night for its second annual 50 on Fire awards.
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An electric crowd of visionary and trailblazing companies and individuals descended on the The Howard Theatre for the second annual 50 on Fire awards and the celebration was hotter than ever. If you’re just catching up now, you missed out on one amazing event but you can run through all of the fun photos below.
Leading up to the event, InTheCapital has covered the year’s disruptive innovators across 9 industries. We opened up nominations to our readers and received over 1,500 submissions. In October these nominations were narrowed down to 150 white hot finalists. Check them out here.

Below are the 2014 Technology Winners:

• Allen Gannett, TrackMaven
• Dan Berger, Social Tables
• DCFemTech
• HelloWallet
• 10 Pearls CEO Imran Aftab
• Video Blocks CEO Joel Holland
• Disruption Corporation founder Paul Singh
• RideScout
• Contactually CEO Zvi Band

Shoutout to Magpi cofounder Joel Selanikio, who was a 2014 Healthcare & Medicine Winner. He also deserves some tech recognition for developing a health data collection app with cofounder Rose Donna. Magpi is helping health workers track the outbreak of the Ebola virus and many other diseases. Here’s the app’s story.