Once again, The Nott Tuesday tech startup of the year competition was a huge success. Antenna was packed with more than 60 people and the evening had a fantastic atmosphere.
Planitt won this years award. The judges made a strong and rapid decision on Planitt after their excellent pitch. Planitt provides an event discovery service for students.
Zahid Mitha, co-founder of Planitt, winning it!!
Planitt has a strong business and monetization model. Zahid Mitha, co-founder of Planitt, said after winning the award:
“We’re ecstatic to receive recognition for our product so early, and really feel that this validates all the hard work we’ve been putting in over the last six months. Thank you again to the judges. Hopefully this is the first of many!”
This year Nott Tuesday introduced second and third places to the competition. The runners-up each receive sponsored prizes. In second place was Matt Manser with LeaveWatch, his cool absenteeism web app. In third place was SiteVersion with their website back-up service. This service offers huge potential if they can crack this market.
All the startups pitching at Nott Tuesday Awards
Honourable mentions also go to Testimonial Monkey with their online client testimonials app and Tyrox with their app which helps students move to a new City.
Our sincere gratitude go to the sponsors of this year’s event: Bildurn, ForLinux, Esendex, Shoosmiths, Skeleton Productions, Inndie Ventures, Aware Monitoring, Web Design Training and PCM Creative. Without the support of these companies the event wouldn’t have attracted such a high caliber of startup.
Nott Tuesday Startup Awards 2011 Sponsors
Our thanks also got to the judges: Adam Bird, Jason Watkins, Rob Wilmot, Stuart Ross and Michelle Sherwood, who did an excellent job at cross examining the startups and selecting a winner. Michelle Sherwood, Partner at Shoosmiths, and spokes person for the judges said:
“The judge and I were really impressed by the range and quality of creativity that it is happening in Nottingham in the technology sector. We have a fantastic skill set in our City/County and should be really proud of what our technology start-up companies are achieving.” Michelle Sherwood, Partner at Shoosmiths
Nott Tuesday Startup Awards 2011 judges
Finally we need to thank: Nick Walker from Walker Systems for once again providing the outstanding photography (All the photo’s on Flickr); Antenna for so warmly hosting the event; CJ for live streaming the event (watch it again here!) and helping the organisation on the night; and Simon Ling for the final event preparation during the final week.
This year’s Nott Tuesday startup competition has demonstrated the continued Tech talent Nottingham is producing!! Year-on-year startups in the region are going from strength to strength.