A couple of Atlantic Canadian startups are looking for your vote in their quest for a global startup award.
Robin Hood and Holla! are winners of recent Startup Weekend events and now they are competing in the Global Startup Battle, in which the public chooses the best SUW winner in the world. Voting closes today at 11:59 pm PST (which technically is tomorrow at about 4 am AST).
Startup Weekend is an international organization that sanctions local events around the world bringing together people to form a business in a single weekend. In the past couple of months, Startup Weekends have been held in Fredericton, Halifax and St. John’s. Winners of local Startup Weekends have the right to go on to the Global Startup Battle, an annual event in which the general public chooses the best startup from Startup Weekends around the world.
Robin Hood is a New Brunswick company that produces web-based purchasing software that helps small businesses come together to bid as effectively as large organizations. The company, which won Startup Weekend Fredericton last month, helps them to get better deals from distributors and suppliers and compete more effectively.
“We are a small team of dedicated and passionate individuals with the right skill set to kick-start Robin Hood,” said team member Mahsa Kiani. “We're designers, developers, and business people with a "get it done" attitude.”
The Startup Weekend in St. John’s last month was won by Holla!, which is an anonymous social app that allows users to share and discover anonymous thoughts around them. “Think Twitter meets Snapchat with location and without the profiles,” said the company’s official description.
You can vote for Robin Hood here and Holla! here.
The winner at the event in Halifax in October was UNIfy, which helps university alumni connect with events are their alma maters.
