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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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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