Hike Nation was first-place winner Sunday at the 3rd Annual North Dallas Startup Weekend: Fitness event that was held at NoD Coworking in Dallas.
Event judge Ken Tabor, a software architect, announced Hike Nation’s win, making the group eligible for a $1,000 Dev Mountain Scholarship, three months of office space at NoD Coworking, and a chance to pitch to Seed Sumo, a highly competitive College Station, Texas-based startup accelerator, for $50,000 in seed money.
Hike Nation finished ahead of second place group Senior Fit, introduced by Brian Sullivan, director of user research and usability at Sabre; and third place winner FitNav, which was introduced by judge Mai Lyn Ngo, a Dallas fitness and food blogger.
On Sunday, teams presented their ideas to a panel of judges, who after a 30-minute break, returned to begin the awards ceremony. The awards culminated 54 hours of fitness, technology, and entrepreneurship mentoring to develop new startup ideas and business plans.
Senior Fit was honored with the award for Best UX Design, and Intelligent Interval was voted the crowd favorite.
Check our photo gallery of award winners below. For more scenes from the event, go here.
PHOTO GALLERY
Photos by Chase Mardis
Senior Fit – 2nd place winners
FitNav – 3rd place
Brian Sullivan speaks to the Senior Fit group as they accept their 2nd place trophy.
The Hike Nation team
Joey Arora announces the crowd favorite award.
Joey Arora with crowd favorite award winners Intelligent Interval.
Mai Lyn Ngo announces the 3rd place winner.
Members of the Senior Fit team accept their 2nd place trophy.
Ken Tabor announces winners Hike Nation.
R E A D N E X T
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The hybrid event in August will take place in person at SMU and virtually. The seventh annual Dallas Startup Week powered by Capital One is Dallas-Fort Worth's largest event focused on driving entrepreneurial success, economic impact, and innovation in the region.
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"It’s just cool that a Texas-based AI and robotics company can help a Texas-based burrito company expand in ways we could only imagine just a few years ago," says Alex Eagle, Chief Executive Officer for Freebirds World Burrito.
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Nonprofit BUiLT is hosting the event to highlight the success and possibilities of Black tech talent in the region. “There is no talent pipeline problem,” says Peter Beasley, co-founder of the Blacks United in Leading Technology International. “Black tech talent is widely available, especially in North Texas.”
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