Watch the 16 final pitches of Startup Weekend Des Moines (Video)

To wrap up our coverage of Startup Weekend Des Moines, we’ve edited down our video of Sunday’s three-hour final pitch session to an hour and fifteen minutes, presenting all 16 team pitches and the award ceremony to top it off. Here are winners of the weekend, as selected by judges Ben Milne of Dwolla, Mike…

Note: The date of the event is incorrectly represented in the video as February 4, it should be March 4.

To wrap up our coverage of Startup Weekend Des Moines, we’ve edited down our video of Sunday’s three-hour final pitch session to an hour and fifteen minutes, presenting all 16 team pitches and the award ceremony to top it off.

Here are winners of the weekend, as selected by judges Ben Milne of Dwolla, Mike Colwell of Business Innovation Zone, Milt Milloy of Springboard Consulting & Capital, and Tej Dhawan and Christian Renaud of StartupCity Des Moines on the criteria of business model, customer validation and execution:

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  1. doodle cloud. An iPhone and iPad app that allows children to snap a photo of a cloud, draw and decorate it with stickers, then send it to loved ones.
  2. myKitchenGenie. A reverse recipe app that gives you meal suggestions based on the ingredients already in your home.
  3. Roadrageo.us. A web app that allows you to leave “rage tickets” for bad drivers based on their license plate numbers.

For more on the winning team, see our post: “Kid-friendly doodle cloud wins Startup Weekend Des Moines“.

Here’s the order and times of the team pitches in the video above:

For more on Startup Weekend, see our roundup of coverage from SPN, the Des Moines Register, the Iowa State Daily and the Des Moines Business Record:

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This story is part of the AIM Institute Archive on Silicon Prairie News. AIM gifted SPN to the Nebraska Journalism Trust in January 2023. Learn more about SPN’s origin »

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