Pitch Night – You get to be an Investor, for free!

When you arrive, we’ll spot you $1000 monopoly money, but you proceed as if you are making a real investment. We’ll settle in to hear 60-second pitches.

Founders will move to individual tables around the room, you go to work. You have 30 minutes to talk with the founders. You ask questions, just as you would if you were making a real investment. When you are ready, you invest your money in the most promising startup(s).

We will pass the hat and ask you to consider making a TOTALLY voluntary contribution of real cash. We’ll count the investments. The one raising the most money walks with the real cash.

You’ll have tons of fun and our companies will gain incredibly valuable insights into the effectiveness of their pitch.

Pitch Competitors:

– Adder Mobile Technologies, Inc. – Collin Taylor, Co-Founder & COO
Our app pays everyday drivers like YOU to host magnetic, vehicle-based advertisements for the businesses you love and support. For Clients, Adder Mobile is delivering real-time, Out of Home campaign analytics & audience measurement like never before!

– Thermal Wall Technologies, LLC – Mike Sandefur
Thermal Wall Technologies is a start-up company initiated to develop and market a new construction technology which enables a structure to come very close to heating and cooling itself

– Pick Your Flip – Casey McCoy
A new real estate marketplace that streamlines the custom home buying experience by removing the administrative overhead, buyers remorse, and high commission costs. The team, collectively, has 10 years real estate and software development experience.

– Nudget – John Pena
We want to bring a sense of harmony to your family. Along with simplifying household tasks, we’re also going to help you save money on your future electricity bills and help you adapt to new, connected devices in your home.

– Hydro Grow, LLC – Scott Massey, CoFounder and CEO
Hydro Grow provides consumers with the Gropod, an aeroponic appliance the size of a dishwasher that uses machine learning to grow a head of leafy greens on a daily basis with 95% less water and no pesticides. Hydro Grow​ ​has​ ​three​ ​(3)​ ​distinct​ ​competitive​ ​advantages:​ ​a​ ​revolutionary​ ​design protected by an mechanical utility PCT patent,​ ​food​ ​safety,​ ​and​ ​a​ ​recurring revenue​ ​model of subscription based seed pods similar to keurig k-cups.​ The Gropod will establish a new precedent for food quality by eliminating food waste, and a user’s dependence on grocery stores for most produce.

Plus Time – Joe Doyle
Plus Time is a web-based service that provides teachers the ability to easily schedule office hours. We make scheduling supports easy so teachers can focus on making sure all students are learning.

Quarion Technology – Aric Pryor
Every year, nearly 100 workers are killed and 20,000 are injured in forklift accidents. We help companies improve the safety of their workers with Real Time Location technology. Our system slows or stops forklifts before they enter areas that are unsafe for the driver or workers on foot. We also know where everyone is in case of an emergency. We just received our first purchase order from a global Fortune 500. Track, Measure, and Manage the safety and production of your employees with technology from Quarion.

TravelAbode – Jake Weis
TravelAbode answers the question, “Where to next?” TravelAbode recommends travel destinations based upon social media content. TravelAbode’s mission is to personalize travel.

ArrowImagery LLC. – Aaron Begle & Blake Schulthies
Utilizing the latest in drone & sensor payload technology, ArrowImagery provides some of the safest and most efficient surveying, mapping, and aerial inspection solutions on the market. ArrowImagery is currently developing a proprietary drone innovation for the power utility industry that will aid in drastically reducing power outages.