HoneyBook Celebrates Winners of Inaugural HoneyBook Awards

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HoneyBook Celebrates Winners of Inaugural HoneyBook Awards

2025-06-02 22:03 Last Updated At：22:11

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun 2, 2025--

HoneyBook, the leading AI business platform for small business owners, today announced the winners of the first-ever HoneyBook Awards; a program that celebrates the resilience, creativity, and impact of service-based businesses within their communities.

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With a thriving community of over 100,000 members across the U.S. and Canada, HoneyBook helps small business owners streamline their operations, elevate client experiences, and confidently grow their businesses. The inaugural HoneyBook Member Award winners were selected from a highly competitive pool of over 1,600 applicants. Chosen for their creativity, resilience, and community impact, these entrepreneurs stood out for their ability to innovate through economic shifts, overcome personal challenges, and drive meaningful success in their industries..

The winners of the award include:

“Our members carve their own path to success and deserve to be celebrated,” shares Oz Alon, CEO of HoneyBook. “The HoneyBook Awards winners exemplify authentic leadership and a genuine embodiment of our core values. They don’t just run businesses — they set trends, shape culture, and make headlines. That’s why our team at HoneyBook has mobilized our community to honor the entrepreneurs who are shaping the future of work.”

As a part of the HoneyBook Awards program, winners received an all-expenses paid trip to HoneyBook’s headquarters in San Francisco, a $2,000 cash prize, and a private awards ceremony.

Recognizing technological innovation as central to the award winners’ success, the winners also participated in a collaborative hackathon, where co-creation took center stage. During this event, HoneyBook engineers worked alongside the winners, contributing their technical expertise and gathering real-time feedback on new and exciting upcoming features. Additionally, the HoneyBook team offered the winners an inside look at recently launched features and updates, including HoneyBook AI, launched in March 2025, and expanded financial toolkit with HoneyBook Finance and HoneyBook Capital.

Learn more about the HoneyBook Award Winners here.

About HoneyBook

HoneyBook is the leading AI-powered business management platform for small business owners. Designed to bring speed, clarity, and confidence to daily operations, the platform supports everything from capturing leads to managing client communication, contracts, and payments. With AI embedded throughout, members benefit from actionable insights and automation that streamline work and unlock growth. Since its founding in 2013, HoneyBook has powered over 25 million client relationships and processed more than $12 billion in transactions, helping independent businesses grow faster and smarter.

Video captures Minneapolis immigration arrest in a city on edge after shooting of Renee Good

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal agents carrying out immigration arrests in Minnesota's Twin Cities region already shaken by the fatal shooting of a woman rammed the door of one home Sunday and pushed their way inside, part of what the Department of Homeland Security has called its largest enforcement operation ever.

In a dramatic scene similar to those playing out across Minneapolis, agents captured a man in the home just minutes after pepper spraying protesters outside who had confronted the heavily armed federal agents. Along the residential street, protesters honked car horns, banged on drums and blew whistles in attempts to disrupt the operation.

Video of the clash taken by The Associated Press showed some agents pushing back protesters while a distraught woman later emerged from the house with a document that federal agents presented to arrest the man. Signed by an immigration officer, the document — unlike a warrant signed by a judge — does not authorize forced entry into a private residence. A warrant signed by an immigration officer only authorizes arrest in a public area.

Immigrant advocacy groups have conducted extensive “know-your-rights” campaigns urging people not to open their doors unless agents have a court order signed by a judge.

But within minutes of ramming the door in a neighborhood filled with single-family homes, the handcuffed man was led away.

More than 2,000 immigration arrests have been made in Minnesota since the enforcement operation began at the beginning of December, said Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News on Sunday that the administration would send additional federal agents to Minnesota to protect immigration officers and continue enforcement.

The Twin Cities — the latest target in President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement campaign — is bracing for what is next after 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed by an immigration officer on Wednesday.

“We’re seeing a lot of immigration enforcement across Minneapolis and across the state, federal agents just swarming around our neighborhoods,” said Jason Chavez, a Minneapolis city councilmember. “They’ve definitely been out here.”

Chavez, the son of Mexican immigrants who represents an area with a growing immigrant population, said he is closely monitoring information from chat groups about where residents are seeing agents operating.

People holding whistles positioned themselves in freezing temperatures on street corners Sunday in the neighborhood where Good was killed, watching for any signs of federal agents.

More than 20,000 people have taken part in a variety of trainings to become “observers” of enforcement activities in Minnesota since the 2024 election, said Luis Argueta, a spokesperson for Unidos MN, a local human rights organization .

“It’s a role that people choose to take on voluntarily, because they choose to look out for their neighbors,” Argueta said.

The protests have been largely peaceful, but residents remained anxious. On Monday, Minneapolis public schools will start offering remote learning for the next month in response to concerns that children might feel unsafe venturing out while tensions remain high.

Many schools closed last week after Good’s shooting and the upheaval that followed.

While the enforcement activity continues, two of the state’s leading Democrats said that the investigation into Good's shooting death should not be overseen solely by the federal government.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and U.S. Sen. Tina Smith said in separate interviews Sunday that state authorities should be included in the investigation because the federal government has already made clear what it believes happened.

“How can we trust the federal government to do an objective, unbiased investigation, without prejudice, when at the beginning of that investigation they have already announced exactly what they saw — what they think happened," Smith said on ABC’s "This Week."

The Trump administration has defended the officer who shot Good in her car, saying he was protecting himself and fellow agents and that Good had “weaponized” her vehicle.

Todd Lyons, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, defended the officer on Fox News Channel’s “The Sunday Briefing.”

"That law enforcement officer had milliseconds, if not short time to make a decision to save his life and his other fellow agents,” he said.

Lyons also said the administration’s enforcement operations in Minnesota wouldn't be needed “if local jurisdictions worked with us to turn over these criminally illegal aliens once they are already considered a public safety threat by the locals.”

The killing of Good by an ICE officer and the shooting of two people by federal agents in Portland, Oregon, led to dozens of protests in cities across the country over the weekend, including New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Oakland, California.

Contributing were Associated Press journalists Giovanna Dell’Orto in Minneapolis; Thomas Strong in Washington; Bill Barrow in Atlanta; Christopher Weber in Los Angeles; and John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio.