Results Opera Startup Awards

So, the Opera Startup Awards competition that lasted for more than six months was successfully completed. Let me remind you that one of the main tasks of the competition was to help young talented developers to create real projects with good commercial prospects based on Opera Software technologies. As a result, Opera Startup Awards fully met expectations: the teams showed good results, some projects launched their services into real work, while one of the participating teams was even able to make a small profit from the work of their service in test mode before the final.

There were five teams in the list of finalists; according to the results of jury assessments, the places were distributed as follows:

There were five teams in the list of finalists; according to the results of jury assessments, the places were distributed as follows:
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1 place
Good Roads (St. Petersburg) - a map service that collects information about the quality of road surface based on data from mobile devices.

2nd place
E-Cook (Krasnodar) is a service for online ordering food at a restaurant (“electronic menu”) or at home.

3rd place
They divided the two teams:
Kwenda (Moscow) is a travel planning service that answers the question, for example, “How to get from Murmansk to Vladivostok and see the most interesting along the way?”
proFeedback (St. Petersburg) is a browser extension that allows users to publicly comment and rate any site, linking short text messages to websites as a whole or to individual pages.

In addition, the teams that most actively used Opera technologies in their projects received money grants from Opera Software, which they can spend on developing their services. In this nomination, the places were distributed as follows:

1 place
E-cook (Krasnodar)

2nd place
proFeedback (St. Petersburg)
This team also received an invitation to take a summer internship at Opera Software.

3rd place
Drugovod (St. Petersburg) is a service that allows you to upload friends' contacts from social networks to your mobile phone and set up automatic greetings.

I can say that, despite the end of the competition, we will continue to actively cooperate with some of the participating teams in the future to help them create truly powerful and popular services.

Let me remind you that the organizers of this competition were the QD business incubator and Opera Software ASA with the support of the MTE master program .

Details on the official website of the competition .