St. John’s startup hub Genesis has announced the six teams that will vie for a $2,000 prize at this week’s Pitch & Pick competition.
There will also be a $1,000 second prize and a $500 Community Choice Award.
The Pitch & Pick events are held three times a year at the end of Evolution’s three annual cohorts. The last winner was Recimply, which is developing “smart receipt” software — a mobile application for consumers to store and organize digital receipts.
The event will be held at the LSPU Hall Theatre in St. John’s, with doors opening at 1:30 p.m. and pitches beginning at 2:00 p.m.
You can register to attend here for free.
Here’s a look at the six companies:
Jybe
Michael Tiller and Stephen Tiller
St. John’s
Jybe is a “buy now pay later platform” for digital subscriptions, allowing users to access the typically lower annual price for a subscription, but still pay monthly.
StepWise
Niloofar Zebarjad
St. John’s
StepWise is developing a mobile app to generate scientifically accurate shoe recommendation services for athletic footwear retailers.
Ramy Abdulzaher
Doha, Qatar
Bonocle is developing a braille controller for smart devices, as well as educational apps and games to teach braille literacy.
Bruno Okoliachu
St. John’s
SendNaa is a person-to-person currency exchange for sending money between Nigeria and Canada.
Data Farms
Heather Zurel
St. John’s
Data Farms is an agtech startup using internet-of-things sensors to monitor crops in real time and help farmers increase the efficiency of their operating practices, such as by better utilizing fertilizer, as well as offering custom alerts about rapidly changing weather conditions.
Craig Hannam and Ajay Pande
St. John’s
Veristart is working on software to make cloud-based keys for construction equipment, solving the security problem that results because each vehicle of a given model usually has an identical physical key.
