PANAJI
In the ninth year of its existence, StartupGoa.org launched its hackathon on Saturday where volunteers from multiple engineering colleges and startups showed up at GreyScale HQ and online to connect pandemic affected techies connect with companies and find jobs.
The two-day hackathon is accelerating development of StartupGoa.org job board, adding features to make it easier for students to create profiles, find companies and find internships.
Additionally, the platform is now expanding to make it easier for digital nomads moving into Goa post Covid, to find co-working space and quality internet.
The hackathon is a high pressure, time-limited event, with selected volunteers, split into six squads, racing to deliver design, code and content, by 10 pm on Sunday, November 1.
The community expects Goa’s technology scene to explode in the following months with Covid driven migration of talented individuals.
StartupGoa.org was founded nine years ago, when a group of local entrepreneurs and technology enthusiasts decided to do something themselves about the startup scene in Goa.
The idea was to support local technology startups. Tired of waiting for IT parks and keen on supporting each other, schoolmates Luke Sequeira and Caslino Pereira connected with fellow engineering student Aprup Shet, to form StartupGoa.org.
By 2015 it grew to become the go to source for tech community meet-ups and workshops. Startup entrepreneurs Canadian Chris Atkinson, Hannah Bain from the UK and Sweden’s Fabian Mossberg and Hampus Olsson, besides Indian nerds Siddharth Ashok and Jervis Pereira, joined a hackathon to build Goa’s first technology focused job board.
This StartupGoa job board is the go-to platform for nearly every one of Goa’s tech startups to hire and for talent to find jobs.
It was built by the community, with no external investment or regulatory support and over 72,000 applicants have used it till date.
