Due to a technical glitch that may have prevented some people from voting in the final round of San Antonio Business Journal's Inno Madness, we're extending the voting deadline to Monday, April 25, at 11:59 pm. After a tight race, the pool of 16 candidates have been narrowed down to two finalists: JellyBird HOA Management and Easy Expunctions.
To vote in the final, now closing on April 25 at 11:59 p.m., click here.
These two companies beat out some stiff competition, including Chargify, Betty's Co., Allosense Inc., Astroport Space Technologies, Leapt-ran Inc., Grain4Grain, Irys Technologies, Modern Managed IT, Wholesome Meats, Turn Medical, Orchid Crew, Curate, Jobward, FloatMe.
Now, with only two companies left, it's up to you to decide the overall 2022 Inno Madness winner.
Here's a closer look at the two finalists.
JELLYBIRD HOA MANAGEMENT
JellyBird HOA Management is a new app designed to make membership in a homeowners association more accessible — and to make HOA responsibilities easy to fulfill. Its mission is to simplify life for both small-budget homeowners associations and the homeowners who are members of them.
The JellyBird management platform and accompanying app tool lets homeowners pay their HOA dues, look at interesting events and deadlines coming up on HOA community news and calendars, or make specific requests regarding their property, routed easily to their designated HOA architectural committees.
The startup was incorporated in 2020 by Chade Nelson.
EASY EXPUNCTIONS
Easy Expunctions, founded by St. Mary's Law and Trinity University alum and attorney Yousef Kassim in 2015, is a software-driven service company and legal tech startup. Last year, it raised more than $6 million in equity funding for its unique concept.
Easy Expunctions aims to help those who face challenges due to old criminal convictions use technology to easily expunge their former charges. Since criminal convictions can lead to housing or job insecurity, Easy Expunctions enables users to create a free account to check their own record or pay a small fee to request a report on their expunction eligibility.
After that, they can choose from different packages to expunge or seal their own court records — or even purge them from online database records.
Kassim told the Business Journal he's passionate about his startup because it affects customers in a real, hands-on way.
"It is important work that is personal to many of us who have either been arrested or know somebody close to us who has been arrested," he said. "We love taking a difficult and expensive process and making it simple and affordable."
