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Florida team makes final 3 in StartupBus competition
Hyve, a tech company formed last week by a StartupBus Florida team, made it to the final three spots in the StartupBus final pitch competition Sunday.
Hyve creates disposable emails, according to a Twitter post by Joey deVilla, a self-described tech author and video instructor from Tampa.
#HyveEmail’s simple interface gets you disposable virtual email addresses that you can use to buy online, subscribe to services, and be contacted by people you don’t know well — and cut them off when they get spammy. Find out more at https://t.co/b8qtR0MdLB!#StartupBus2019 pic.twitter.com/vcnjDGU5Qn
— 🎹 Joey deVilla (@AccordionGuy) July 26, 2019
StartupBus is an annual competition that is equal parts boot camp and road trip and designed to empower the tech community by challenging top-tier talent to conceive, build and launch a startup in 72 hours. The Florida bus left Tampa early Wednesday and joined others from Mexico, Silicon Valley, New York, Northeast Ohio and Washington, D.C. — as well as a StartUp Bus for black entrepreneurs — in New Orleans for the weekend pitch competition.
DeVilla tracked Hyve’s progress through a series of tweets.
We’re quite happy with our pitch for #HyveEmail, and we hope you were too! Congrats to Rina and Tracy on excellent sales pitches, Justin and David for a stunning tech preso, and Joey for accordion power! pic.twitter.com/ey4LXEKqBj
— Hyve (@HyveEmail) July 27, 2019
Three teams from StartupBusFlorida made it to the finals.
Yes! #HyveEmail made it to the #StartupBus2019 finals! And so did our bus-mates HospitalFee and OfficePE! pic.twitter.com/DkhSGoDrs0
— 🎹 Joey deVilla (@AccordionGuy) July 28, 2019
Here’s a glimpse of Hyve’s pitch to the judges.
@HyveEmail ends their pitch with some live music!#StartupBus2019 pic.twitter.com/L9xdHE2aiu
— StartupBus (@TheStartupBus) July 28, 2019
The judges picked three winners.
Final score: #HyveEmail made.the top three, and will be featured on the #StartupBus2019 site. We did it! pic.twitter.com/rsnstvq3uV
— 🎹 Joey deVilla (@AccordionGuy) July 28, 2019
Although it was created in three days on a bus, Hyve is a working product, deVilla wrote in a blog post.
