It's crunch time for startups competing in Atlanta Inno's inaugural Tech Madness.
What’s Tech Madness, you ask? It’s our reader-driven bracket competition in the spirit of March Madness highlighting some of the local startup scene’s biggest, brightest and most exciting technology companies.
Throughout the month, 32 Atlanta-based startups have been going head-to-head in the bracket, and readers like you are deciding who goes on to the next round.
With more than 7,600 total votes this round, we saw some serious close calls in Round 3.
The closest call we've seen all season comes from PadSplit, which barely beat out Trackter by just five votes. Talk about a three-point shot at the buzzer.
OnPay just squeezed out a win over Flourish Software, with a 63 votes difference. This winner received the most votes total at 226, while FoodFinder raked in 164 votes and 2ULaundry snagged 167 votes.
So what does our Final Four look like? FoodFinder, a bootstrapped startup that helps connect food insecure users to food pantries, goes head-to-head with OnPay, a software company with a payroll platform for small businesses. 2ULaundry, a door-to-door laundry and dry cleaning startup that's raised $2.9 million total, will face off against PadSplit, an affordable housing startup and Techstars Atlanta Class of 2018 graduate.
When voting, we want you to ask yourself this question: Who would you invest in? Whether you answer that question based on who you think would garner the highest return, the safest investment or which startup really reflects your mission in life is entirely up to you. The startups selected are private, venture-backed or bootstrapped businesses we seeded based on funding and other growth metrics.
The winning company of Tech Madness will win total bragging rights for the rest of the year, and maybe even another little prize to go with it.
The third round of Tech Madness ends Thursday, March 28, at 11:59 p.m. Vote for your favorite companies then share with friends and colleagues to help us determine a winner.
