The best startups and entrepreneurs in the Central Europe region were awarded last week at the CESA Grand Finale (Central Europe Startup Awards) in Vienna, with Romania winning three prizes.

Romanian Melania Galea, co-founder of Catwalk15, won the Most Influential Woman award. She is a passionate programmer graduated from Computer Science in Babes-Bolyai University. She is also a master of Machine Learning and Robotics. Melania Galea built a robot out of an iRobot body and a Lego NXT arm that would wipe the dust on a plain surface and detect obstacles.

Romanian company Mira Rehab also got the Best Social Impact Startup award. Mira Rehab is a company with the mission to motivate people to get better in a faster, easy and fun way. Mira is a product designed to make physical therapy fun and convenient for patients recovering from surgery or injury. The system transforms existing physical therapy exercises into video-games and uses an external sensor to track and assess patient compliance.

The People’s Choice award went to Romanian company Hub Onerezo, a mixture of co-working space, event venue & start-up incubator in Brasov, central Romania.

The other winners of the competition are: Loffice Budapest (Hungary) – Best Coworking Space, Codeship (Austria) – Best Cloud/Data Application, Oradian (Croatia) – Best Fintech Startup, Vitastiq (Croatia) – Best User Experience, Speedinvest (Austria) – Best Investor, and Runtastic (Austria) – Startup of the Year 2015.

CESA is the biggest no-pitch, no-conference startup festival in Central Europe, with the collaboration of 10 countries and more than 30 volunteers from the ecosystem. This year, more than 1,000 startups and entrepreneurs were nominated for the awards, which received over 20,000 votes from the public.

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Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com

(Photo source: Central European Startup Awards on Facebook)