Startup Spotlight: Columbia Startup Weekend closes fifth year
Columbia’s fifth startup weekend closed over the weekend. The entrepreneurs started a handful of new businesses and exchanged even more great ideas!
The first place prize, which comes with $2,000 in seed money and a package of startup resources, went to StaffedUp, a web platform for small and midsize businesses to recruit and compete for talented employees. The company is tailored to retail and service employers and wants to provide efficiency and user-friendliness in staffing.
The second and third place prizes respectively went to Tenant Loop and eSportsBooth. Tenant Loop provides mobile communication between tenants and landlords to make property management easy and personal; eSportsBooth is an online sportswear marketplace for the gaming community.
By design, Startup Weekend participants brought different strengths to their teams. The official participant breakdown:
– 71 non-technical
– 55 developers
– 14 designers
Congratulations to all the Startup Weekend folks! We can’t wait for year six.
Photos provided by Alyssa Patzius/Columbia Startup Weekend.