Awards Coordinator
Centralized awards program and submission management software.
The founders
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The company
Awards Coordinator is a B2B SaaS platform that runs the entire awards lifecycle — from customised submission forms and application fee collection to judging via configurable scoring rubrics, reviewer assignments and blind reviews, plus admin reporting dashboards.
Plenty of associations, publishers, corporates and non-profits still stitch together spreadsheets, email inboxes and payment tools to run their awards programmes; a centralised platform replaces that patchwork with one system built for the job.
Founded in 2026 by Jennifer Orabona, the company is tackling the operational mess organisations hit when they scale up competitions, grants and recognition events.
It's early days and a solo-founder build, so the proof will be in shipping; the platform's focus on the unglamorous specifics — fee processing, blind reviews, reviewer assignments — suggests a founder who knows where awards programmes actually break.
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