PayrollHero was invited to pitch at the Startup Riot event in Seattle, WA last week.  Along with 29 other startup PayrollHero co-founder Stephen Jagger had 3 minutes on stage, with maximum 4 slides to pitch the judges on the merits of PayrollHero.

After all 30 startups pitched, the judges met to decide on the “Judges Choice” for the top 5 startups.  After a few minutes of deliberation, the judges announced that PayrollHero was their choice as one of the “Top 5” startups at Startup Riot 2012 Seattle.

If your interested in seeing the pitch, you can see the video below:

(You will notice I get a bit of a laugh at the start of the pitch.  I was lucky to be 26th up to pitch, so had a benefit of watching others and seeing how the judges reacted.  Most of the feedback was around the judges wanting to see more of the product.  The problem is, none of us could change our slides as they were submitted a week earlier.  So when I got on stage, I brought the PayrollHero TimeClock (iPad) with me and handed it to the judges.  One of the judges jokingly commented that it was cheating, where I responded saying I thought it was smart)

The Top 5 Startups included:

– https://www.microryza.com – “Give Money To Research That You Care About”
– http://www.quoterobot.com – “Multi-Page Proposals In Moments”
– http://www.vendscreen.com – “Vending Machine Technology”
– http://www.trell.is – “On-Demand Android App Testing”
– http://www.payrollhero.com – “Optimizing Work Productivity With Happiness”

And 2 of them have Canadian roots!