Start-ups from MIT and Stanford go head-to-head in an online pitch competition moderated by international VCs, and voted on by you! Two teams from Stanford and three from MIT will participate. A panel of top investors from around the world will view pitches from each of the teams and participate in an interactive Q&A feedback session with the start-ups. The audience and investors will vote for the top start-ups. In the end one start-up, and one school, will be crowned the winner! Check out the competition here.
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Deadline Past
Apply to Pitch:
Want to be one of the Stanford or MIT teams selected to participate? CLICK HERE TO APPLY
It is free to apply, but applications close at 11:59 PM on Thursday March 6th so apply now!
- Eligibility
- Each team must contain at least one current MIT or Stanford student
- Teams must have raised less than $50,000 in total funding
Why Pitch?
- Receive help creating your own pitch video
- Investor visibility and feedback (a preliminary list of investors is below)
- Receive pitch coaching from an experienced investor pitch/fundraising coaches (likely Mac Lipscomb orTodd Barrish)
- Company profile (i.e. a microwebsite for your company/idea)
- Great prizes (a list of prizes from past events is below)
- It’s FREE!
The following investors participated in the most recent Online Pitch Competition (Dec ’13):
- Emil Abirascid – Founder & CEO at Startupbusiness Italy
- Kirk Coburn – Founder & Managing Director at SURGE Accelerator
- Gabby Czertok – Managing Director at CleanIsrael
- Achiterdene Darambazar – President & CEO at Mongolia International Capital Corporation
- Ariella Grinberg – Associate at Israel Cleantech Ventures
- Gillian Isabelle – Executive Director at ACTION
- Les Neumann – Director at iCAN-Global
- Willem Rensink – GameChanger at Shell International
- Christopher Romer – Managing Director at ORRO.CO Renewable Energy
- Mike Shimazu – Associate Vice President at University at Albany
- Gelvin Stevenson – Founder at Greentech Investors Forum
- Ben Taube – Chairman of the Global Cleantech Cluster Association
Below are the prizes that have been distributed at past events (the prizes for this event are still being determined):
- The top 3 startups won prizes including:
- An automatic bid to pitch at New York Angels, New York’s oldest and largest angel investor network. New York Angels has invested over $45 million in more than 70 venture companies.
- Top three ULS winners would get a first round interview with StartFast Venture Accelerator. MDs Chuck Stormon and Nasir Ali. Both Chuck and Nasir are serial entrepreneurs and angel investors.
- $1,000 in Amazon Web Services credit to cover storage, compute, networking, and database costs
- 1 hour of free legal consultation with VLP Law Group LLP
- A $500 credit toward a professionally designed investor pitch deck, by New Haircut
- The top start-up received:
- An automatic first-round interview for the next class of Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator orDreamIt Ventures, two of New York’s top seed accelerator programs
- One hour of mentorship with super bootstrapper, Dennis Mortensen. Dennis founded and sold his last two companies to Yahoo and Outbrain.
- Two free hours of consulting with the organizers of the New York Inbound Marketing Professionals Meetup.
- An automatic first-round interview for the next class of Techstar’s NYC program, one of the top accelerators in the country.
- One month of free co-working at the NYU Poly Incubator at 137 Varick St.
Tentative Timeline
- Now – Mar 6th: Apply to participate in the online pitch competition
- Mar 6th – March 19: Crowdvoting for entrance into the competition (2 teams will be selected from Crowdvoting, and 6 from a selection committee)
- March 19 – March 21: 4 finalists from each school are identified
- March 21 – April 14: Finalists receive presentation coaching, produce slides, and are helped create a video about their idea.
- April 14 – 17: Competition begins, audience and investor vote, and winners are announced
Format of the Competition
(details may change slightly)
- Pre-Start (April 7 – April 14) – Microwebsite and video presentation for each participant completed and posted
- Day 1 (April 15) – Investors view start-ups sites/videos. Q&A begins between investors and start-ups
- Day 2 (April 16) – Investors provide final feedback to start-ups based on presentations and discussions
- Day 3 (April 17) – Audience votes for their favorite start-ups. Winning start-up is selected and awarded prizes
If you would like to view the most recent Online Pitch Competition visit: http://futureenergy.