As part of Chattanooga Startup Week 2016, the Chattanooga Startup Awards event Oct. 6 was presided over by Bellhops' Co-founder and President Cameron Doody and that firm's Communications Director David Martin.

Awards categories, finalist and winners:

• Business to Business: AudiencePoint (Winner), Management Cleaning Services, and Randall Stappenbeck
• Business to Customer: Pass it Down (Winner), Get Seated, Run Chattanooga, and CPR Lifewrap
• Education: Tech Goes Home Chattanooga (Winner), i-kin-sit, and Center Centre
• Bootstrapper: The Bitter Alibi (Winner) , Hutton and Smith Brewing Company, and Bread and Butter Bakery
• Startup Advocate of the Year: Mike Bradshaw (Winner), Kristina Montague, and Alexis Willis
• Startup of the Year: Collider (Winner), Pass it Down, and Roots Rated

Judges for the 2016 Startup Awards:

• Matt McLelland, innovation Research Manager, Kenco Innovation Labs
• Mariano Cebrián, owner, Panoram Imports
• Dan Gilmore, attorney, Squire Strategies
• Beverly K. Brockman PhD., head marketing and entrepreneurship dept., University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
• Allie O'Connell, project manager, Carbon Five [###]

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