ABA TECHSHOW kicked off in Chicago final week with its conventional opening occasion, the Startup Alley pitch competitors, wherein 15 authorized tech startups current three-minute pitches in pursuit of prime honors.
The winners of the competitors (which I set up and emcee) are chosen by standard vote of these in attendance within the viewers, which votes registered by way of an app.
This yr, the first-place winner was Universal Migrator, a software for transferring regulation agency information from one follow administration software to a different.
In his pitch, founder Tony Valenti instructed the viewers that Common Migrator helps migrations between greater than 60 functions. It will probably additionally help upgrades and consolidations.
Second place honors went to Decision Vault, a client-intake portal designed to streamline the consumption course of and simply switch shopper information right into a case administration or doc automation system.
Profitable third place was Fidu, a follow administration platform particularly designed to help legal professionals offering authorized providers on a subscription foundation. (Fidu founder Kimberly Bennett is pictured above throughout her Startup Alley pitch.)
The 15 corporations that competed have been chosen from a area of greater than 60 that initially utilized. A panel of judges narrowed the sphere right down to 40 semifinalists, who have been then put out for public voting. We acquired virtually 81,000 votes on over 16,000 ballots to resolve on the ultimate 15.