Bridgit, the Kitchener startup that improves communication on construction sites, has won the Google for Entrepreneurs Demo Day for female-led startups.
The company was the only Canadian entry in the competition, in which 11 finalists from around the world were selected from among 450 applicants.
It’s the third prize that Bridgit, co-founded by Mallorie Brodie and Lauren Hasegawa, have won since the beginning of September. They have also won the inaugural C100 Startup Challenge in Toronto in September, and days later won a $25,000 prize at the demo day for Communitech’s Rev accelerator.
Google for Entrepreneurs announce that Bridgit had won its event on Wednesday.
Read our Coverage of the Rev Demo Day
Bridgit’s product is Closeout, an app that helps project managers with deficiency management – which means making sure that all the little jobs in a construction project are completed to perfection.
In a highrise condo project, there are probably about 50 subcontractors. So assigning and checking up on all these odd jobs is a pain for someone overseeing a multi-million-dollar project.
Closeout is a cloud-based mobile app that lets the site manager take a smart-phone picture of the deficiency and assign the task of fixing it to a subcontractor. They can write a description, the location and deadline. Once the job is done, the subcontractor can report back to the site manager, even send a photo of the completed job.
As of last summer, the app was being used in 10 high-rise projects in seven cities in the U.S. and Canada, including two in Seattle.