April 15, 2016
Update: Go Code Colorado - Mentor Weekend
We've sponsored Go Code Colorado for three years, and since it's a sponsorship that extends across a number events over a few months, here's a quick update. Mentor Weekend is awarded to the ten finalist teams that emerge from the Challenge Weekend (two from each location). The organizers have brought together the best and brightest minds of the entrepreneurial and tech community to mentor the finalist teams as they prepare for the Final Event. The sponsored stickers for 2016 feature three different shapes (see above): a teardrop with a code-based design, a circle with all of the participating cities, and colored gradient on a rounded square.The finalists are:
Colorado Springs- Hively is a platform that connects employee personalities with business cultures. Hively is a fresh approach to the employment process that enables businesses to make better hiring “fits” without spending costly time and resources.
- Get Routed is an app that creates safe and effective cycling routes for Colorado athletes. Get Routed correlated bear sighting data with bike trails.
- Foodcast wants to help food trucks find the best location to park by informing food truck owners of street sweeping days, the amount of foot traffic the area gets, and other beneficial tips through its mobile app.
- Locavore is an application that connects local farmers with consumers. It is helping to solve the food desert problem by identifying locations with little access to healthy food using data from the state of Colorado.
- StartUpIn.co is a simple-to-use web portal that allows anyone to create a new business in Colorado. It has contextual and relevant advice driven by the user’s input.
- HomePowerDirect is a solar marketplace with education and guided data-gathering for customers, system sizing, automated bidding, and market intelligence for equipment providers.
- SWO is an application mapping verified women-owned businesses using data from the Business Entities and Trade Names databases.
- Energy Tech is a surface regulation navigator for oil and gas drilling sites.
- Help a Rider Out connects riders with current information about conditions so they have a safe, enjoyable ride.
- dID (digital ID) reinvents the business card for the digital age through an app with endless customization and huge opportunities for businesses.
