Buffalo Startup Weekend 2018

by Peter Cimino on Monday, September 17th, 2018

Our very own InfoTechWNY Chairman, Peter Cimino's team wins this years competition.

The annual event aims to develop ideas for new businesses over a 54-hour span, culminating in pitches to judges. T.I.L.T. (short for This is Like That) consisted of Dan Gigante, Luke Jezioro, Peter Cimino and Nicholas Cimino. The concept involves recommending new places to try, such as bars and restaurants, based on familiar places someone already knows and loves.

The second-place entrant was Quic, is a solar-powered, wireless navigation buddy that works with smart phone maps apps. Third place went to Uncoded, which merges coding skills and good communication.

The top teams won prize packages designed to help encourage them to pursue their ideas beyond the weekend.

Judges for the event were:

Bethany Deshpande, Chief Executive Officer of Soma Detect
Alex Gress, Executive Director of 43N
Jenae Pitts, Managing Partner of OneTen Capital

IT WNY GOLD Sponsors

As Upstate New York’s largest member services organization, AAA Western and Central New York provides nearly 900,000 members with travel, insurance, financial and automotive related services. Since its founding in 1900, AAA has been a leading advocate for the safety and security of all travelers. Visit AAA at www.AAA.com.
Making Web Development More Accessible To You.

Our mission is to provide web solutions in such a way that small and mid-size companies have an affordable option, without sacrificing the quality and expertise that is usually associated with large, diverse and expensive agencies.
Advance2000 is a full-service managed IT service provider specializing in Private Cloud Computing. From our high performance Cloud Computing to our comprehensive IT solutions, Advance2000 is renowned for streamlining customer’s cumbersome IT infrastructure while helping them optimize their business performance.
At AT&T, we’re bringing it all together. We’re helping people connect with advanced mobile services, next-generation TV, high-speed Internet services and smart solutions for businesses.

Fast, highly secure and mobile connectivity – to everything on the Internet, everywhere, at every moment and on every device – is what drives us at AT&T.
We strive to provide better healthcare to our members, offer greater value to our customers, and improve the health of our communities.
At M&T Tech, we’re a team of makers, doers, and builders working to create the most advanced technology solutions in banking. We’re not your stereotypical suit and tie bankers: we’re an innovative team of leading tech experts, pushing boundaries, and taking risks. Join us and be part of something new as we build tomorrow’s bank today.
View Daily Local Business News, Resources & more in Buffalo, New York.
The Beckage Firm, PLLC is an exclusive law firm that counsels select organizations and high-net-worth individuals on incident response, innovation, business strategy, crisis preparedness, crisis management, and other tech and data security and privacy matters.
Rich Products