Deadline: 24-Feb-23
The Inventures Startup Pitch Competition is now open for applications to pitch the product or service to the audience of venture capitalists, angel investors, entrepreneurs, early adopters, business educators and service providers.
Categories
They are currently accepting applications for startups focused on the following categories:
- The Metaverse: Living virtually could generate up to $5T in value by 2030. What’s involved? Who’s setting the pace? Where’s investment flowing? It varies by industry, region, and demographics. Those already leveraging the metaverse are gaining an edge, impacting everything from cybersecurity, to travel and entertainment.
- Future of Work: Hybrid norms are reshaping workplaces into workspaces as digital nomads turn ‘here and now’ into ‘anywhere and anytime’. Work and life are blending into empowering experiences that put social entrepreneurship and conscious consumerism at the heart of sustainable local and global ventures.
- Ag/Food Tech: Grow local, feed global is the new refrain as climate and geopolitics impact food security worldwide. Enter an arsenal of technologies – from artificial intelligence and machine learning to weather, water, and soil sensors, to robotics – intersect to reshape community needs and nutritional norms.
- Health Innovation: Life expectancy is increasing steadily due in part to leaps in medical science. Putting ‘healthy’ at the heart of a longer life has medical and other disciplines collaborating to transform lifelong care networks based on genomics, social determinants, precision medicine, pharma advancements and interconnected data trusts.
- Clean Tech: Pathways to net zero are being paved globally with a a range of renewables, carbon-based and clean energy solutions. Advanced materials that are stronger and lighter, new and natural chemical applications and polymers, and novel processes that underpin the future economy are adapting and borrowing lessons from sustainable natural systems.
- Computing Infinity: Fueled by artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data, quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize industries. Quantum technology is set to drive breakthroughs in fintech and blockchain applications, while simultaneously enabling space tech exploration of far reaches of the universe.
Eligibility Criteria
- Companies must have launched/be planning to launch their product or service within 24 months of June 1, 2023
- Companies must not have raised more than $10 million in funding
- Companies may only enter one product or service for Inventures Startup Pitch
- The submitted product or service must fall under one of the Inventures Startup Pitch categories
- Prior Inventures Startup Pitch finalists are not eligible to participate
What are the Inventures Judging Criteria?
Inventures Startup Pitch Judges will focus on these five critical elements:
- Creativity – the originality and uniqueness of the idea
- Potential – the longevity, actualization and profitability of the idea
- Goodness – how does the product or service impact/improve the world?
- Traction – sales, users, marketing exposure, etc.
- Team / People – how will the team help the startup succeed?
For more information, visit Inventures.