After three weeks of public and members-only voting, over 100 startups nominated and 6,000 votes cast, we have our Top 5 Finalists of the TechAviv Peer Awards. Face.com, my6sense, 5min, Colnect and 6rounds will compete live on Wednesday, Dec 30th, 7:00pm for the right to claim the crown of Top Israeli Startup of 2009. The event will be broadcast live by TechAviv member LiveU.

UPDATE: 5min Wins!

CLICK HERE FOR LIVE EVENT BROADCAST (Dec 30th, 7:00PM Israel Time)

TechAviv Peer Awards Finalists:

The finals competition is a closed, members-only event of the TechAviv Founders Club in Israel which includes 600 Israeli hi-tech startup founders and investors. In typical TechAviv fashion, we’re crowdsourcing the competition. Rather than have a panel of so-called experts pick the winner, Israel’s founders and investors will select the winner via live SMS vote after the startups get 10 minutes each on stage to impress their peers. See who’s coming here.

Congrats to all of the great startups that were nominated and best of luck to our finalists!

It’s important to note, as many have commented, that many fine Israeli startups outside our mainly Internet, web and mobile software and services membership were not nominated. We may include different category awards next year as a result.

On March 17th, about 100 Israeli hi-tech founders and investors came out to see and discuss demos by my6sense, attracTV and TicTacTi at the IDC Herzliya.  Here’s a short writeup about each. Thanks to TechAviv member LiveU for providing this archived version of our live broadcast. Click the white dots in the timeline to skip ahead to the startup presentations.

And here are still-sober TechAviv bloggers @EzraButer and @OrenTodoros chatting about the event immediately afterwards.

TechAviv’s Israel-based Founder’s Club meets Tues March 17th at 6:30pm at the IDC Herzliya. 100 member founders and investors are coming out to see and discuss demos by @my6sense, @attracTV, and @TicTacTi. This is a closed event but we’ll be streaming the demos live and holding an open web chat session starting at 7PM Israel time thanks to members LiveU and AttracTV.

CLICK HERE FOR LIVE BROADCAST & CHAT (7PM Israel Time)

Here’s a quick blurb about the presenting startups:

my6sense is pioneering a new tech category they call “digital intuition.” Founder and CEO Avinoam Rubinstain and his team believe we need to re-think the way information is presented on mobile phones. The company develops a solution for intelligently ranking and serving mobile info, media and interactions that match the user’s personal preferences. Avinoam wil share his digital intuition with us live.

attracTV will not only be facilitating our live event chat, but founder and CTO Guy Tomer, the tech brains behind the young “vidget” platform, will demo all the other cool live in-video interactivity they can power, including comments, polls, Facebook integration and even ordering a pizza. Not a typo. I have a feeling developers are going to get really creative with their open API. You’ll never watch a web video the same again.

TicTacTi does many things to help you monetize videos and games. Maybe too many. These guys are churning out new in-video and in-game ad technology faster than most of us dream up a new idea. Their robust T3 ad platform opens up a world of creative possibility for video and game publishers to monetize available real estate within their videos and games. Eyal Margalit will demo their latest tool, TicTacTi widgets.