MentorMint offers career mentoring from professionals that have the job you want. It provides an online marketplace connecting students to mentors for career coaching. Meanwhile, Cultivating Coders takes the coding bootcamp to rural, Tribal and unserved urban areas. We also announced that Parihug was the winner of our Readers Choice poll for Tech.Co’s SXSW Startup of the Year. The company offers pairable teddy bears that let you hug someone from anywhere in the world. All three winners will receive an invitation to Tech.Co’s global startup competition at this year’s Tech.Co Celebrate Conference. They’ll also receive the following prizes:
AA Business Extra Points from American Airlines;Copies of Steve Case’s new book The Third Wave;Hosting credits for 12 months from IBM;Routers from Belkin; andAn invitation to join Salesforce’s Salesforce for Startups.
