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Congrats to the winners of our 30-second video-pitch contest at SxSW!

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Along with reporting on whatever interesting tech happenings we find in Austin, Texas during the annual South by Southwest festival, the VentureBeat team and Buzzstarter also set out to find a new set of Win30s champions.

In case you need a refresher on our contest, startups pitched our official Win30s team with short video pitches, and we’ve been selecting the best and most shared ones throughout the contest.

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And now, we’ve finally selected the winners of this year’s 30-second video pitch contest in partnership with Buzzstarter, and we’d like to share the results and give them all a huge round of cyber-applause.

The contest judging, by the numbers:

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  • 190 teams interviewed
  • 1,900,000 views of the Win30s.com site, both mobile and desktop
  • 210,000 votes
  • 160,000 social shares
  • 2 weeks in which all of this happened

Here are the winners:

Best Consumer: Brandicted

Brandicted enables people to visually explore and purchase branded products based on current, popular, and relevant real-life images.

Best Bootstrapped: Rbutr

Rbutr provides access to “the best critical response” to any given webpage.

Best Mobil: Peepsqueeze

Peepsqueeze brings your family and friends together with ease.

Best Enterprise: Partender

Partender is help you do bar inventory in 15 minutes.

VentureBeat Pick: Tethr

Tethr reimagines Web meetings and business collaboration using real-time voice-to-text transcription.

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Investor’s Pick: Wefunder

Wefunder operates a crowdinvesting platform for startups.

Buzzstarter Pick: SwitchVideo

SwitchVideo makes the best explanatory videos for the best companies in the world

Overall Winner: Partender

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