Startup Weekend Omaha concludes tonight with a whopping 18 teams pitching their products to a panel of four judges and the crowd gathered at the University of Nebraska at Omaha‘s Mammel Hall. Doors open at 6 p.m. for dinner, followed by presentations at 7. And if you can’t be among the crowd at Mammel Hall? Not to worry; we have you covered. We’ll stream tonight’s presentations live here.
The presentation order is still being ironed out, and we’ll update this post when we get final confirmation of that. In the meantime, get the scoop on the judges and teams below and get a glimpse of the proceedings on Twitter by following the hashtag #SWOmaha.
Tonight’s judges are:
- William E. Fisher, Treetop Ventures
- Karen Linder, Nebraska Angels
- Jeffrey Meese, Invest Nebraska
- Tom Chapman, Nebraska Global
The 18 teams (links to website, Twitter and Facebook when available; listed in alphabetical order) are:
- BedChair – A collapsable chair for your bed; thebedchair.squarespace.com
- The Bob – Edible food skewer vendor
- CabGetter (formerly Drink More Beer) – Service providing geo-locational dispatch for people to get rides; cabgetter.com
- Chipinabit – A social fundraising platform to help people with everyday economic stresses; chipinabit.com, @chipinabit
- ChronoFlow – Time-based social media network; chronoflow.com, @chrono_flow, Chrono Flow on Facebook
- CollegeStartr – Platform for crowd-sourced college scholarships; collegestartr.com, @collegestartr, CollegeStartr on Facebook
- CornFinger – A website to communicate, organize and show support for special causes; givetranscanadathecornfinger.com, @cornfinger, CornFinger on Facebook
- Craniak – Courseware gamification platform for educators; craniak.com, @craniakedu
- DJEveryone – Allows the DJ to mix up the party by receiving feedback from guests in real-time; djeveryone.com, @djeveryone
- Feed Reply – Direct messaging aggregator and dashboard; feedreply.com, @feedreply
- Gossip Closet – Social game that involves scanning of bar codes on clothing and sharing the items with your friends – gossip-closet.kickofflabs.com, @gossipclosetapp, Gossip Closet on Facebook
- Paper or Plastic – Mobile game to break the ice at social outings; paperorplasticapp.com, @paperplasticapp, Paper or Plastic on Facebook
- PhotoPig – Social photography game based off the basketball game pig; photopiggame.com
- Slouch Couch Studios – HTML5 video game studio; slouchcouch.co, @slouch_couch
- SonaSeek (formerly UnUn) – Website for creating customized resumes on personalized domains; sonaseek.com, @sonaseek
- ThoughtTalk – A platform for online counselors; thoughttalktherapy.com, @thoughttalk
- TweetPull – Analyzes tweets using data mining methods; tweetpull.com
- Your Happy Plate (formerly Eat Your Peas) – Mobile app for people with special dietary needs; yourhappyplate.com, @yourhappyplate, Your Happy Plate on Facebook