The votes are finally in for the Summer of Innovation $2k to $25k Competition.
Sixty startups joined the competition, which kicked off in early August. The event ended on August 31st, with the Service Jobs Now leading the pack with 67 votes. But as in many of the Vator-hosted competitions, the popular vote is only counted as one vote.
(Note: SJN founders - Alex Roizen and Jonathan O'Bierne - are in the video presenting their company.)
The other judges - Bernard Slede, HP Ventures, Chris Redlitz, Trans Media Capital, Joy Tang, One Village Foundation, Ed Lambert, Bridge Bank, Tyler Rorabaugh, Semantic Seed, Ed Lucero, IPEVO, David Fleck, Wild Pockets, Quincy Jones Jr, III, Ehustle.com, QD3 Entertainment, Howard Hartenbaum, August Capital and Eghosa Omoigui, Director Strategic Investments at Intel Capital, weighed in with their votes as well.
Each judge voted for their six favorite startups. We then combined their votes with the popular vote, and here is the final standing for the six winners.
No. 1 Service Jobs Now
No. 2 Truevert
No. 3 Calinda Software
No. 4 DialPlus
No. 5 LendingKarma
No. 6 FightLaunch
So, what does Service Jobs Now win?
SJN will receive between $2,000 - $5,000 cash and prizes to build a protype or "alpha" version of your application or services, and the opportunity to demo your winning application or service at a Semantic Seed specified event this fall to angel investors and venture capitalist from Silicon Valley. The winner will also become one of the six finalists, competing for the chance to win the Grand Prize of $25,000 or 2nd place of $15,000. Click here for more on the awards.
Be sure to check out Vator's other competitions. Vator and TheFunded are hosting their very first co-produced event, called Juice Pitcher. If you want to be one of the eight to 10 startups pitching, join the Juice Pitcher competition in which we will select the presenting companies.
Also see the 8KMiles $15k competition.
