Over 54 hours from Friday evening to Sunday evening, 50+ entrepreneurship-curious innovators gathered at the Carlsen Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Sac State to participate in Startup Weekend. 10 brand new companies were formed  and the experience culminated in Demo Night Sunday evening where the Top 3 were crowned! Drum roll please….and the winners are:

  • First Place: CampusMart –E-commerce marketplace for students can post/sell their services on campus 
  • Second Place: StemGym — Hands on STEM “gymnasium” for youth
  • Third Place: ShopSmart –A web extension to help buyers find products that align with their values
  • Audience Favorite: The Predictive Pantry — Kitchen inventory management system

Congratulations to all the teams–you worked so hard and it was a challenge to select the winners! You can see the list of all the teams here. And you can watch or relive Demo Night by viewing the livestream video here.

If you’re bummed that you missed participating, there are two Startup Weekends happening the last weekend in March in the Bay Area. Startup Weekend Latinx in Oakland and Startup Weekend Silicon Valley Womxn in Atherton. Check them out!

In other Startup News, last week’s Sweet 16 for Kings Capitalize was narrowed down to the Elite 8 who will be competing to make the Final 4 in a private pitch event this afternoon. Good luck to all the Startups pitching today!

The Elite 8

  • ComplyFit is the first of its kind state-level license monitoring solution for national and regional fintech companies who must maintain licenses across multiple states.
  • Drinjk Wines is a company that sells single-serve 6.3-ounce bottles of handcrafted wine from around the world, without the commitment of opening a full bottle.
  • Humanly is a hiring platform that screens and schedules job candidates while reducing time to hire and providing the best possible candidate experience for all applicants.
  • PHIXED is a pH monitoring system that disrupts cost-effective and sustainable biomanufacturing and food production by leveraging advanced analytics.
  • RedDoor is an online mortgage broker that is powered by tech, driven by humans and is innovating the mortgage experience.
  • Sama Learning’s Marketplace for virtual reality courses puts the power of VR, artificial intelligence and education science into the hands of instructors to unlock the learning potential inside every learner.
  • Soma Loans is a peer-to-peer lending and investing app available on smartphones.
  • Sparck is an employee engagement and recognition platform that equips companies to personalize every experience at the right time, in the right way and with the right reward to make it most meaningful. 

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