MSB Pitch Xi Night February 2018

Athula Bogoda
SiliconNews
Published in
3 min readFeb 4, 2018

Thanks to our newest sponsor Academy Xi, the February Pitch Night was held at Xi’s Melbourne campus. Here’s the video (apologies for the audio hiccups and the missing video of round 2 pitches — we aren’t perfect!)

MSB Pitch Xi Night Feb 2018 at AcademyXi.

The Sponsors
MC for the night — Tim, AcademyXi (Venue sponsor & Community Sponsor)
3:20 Athula, Melbourne Silicon Beach
7:15 Rugare, Simbisa Law (Food sponsor & Community Sponsor)

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The Partners
9:45 Bill, TwoSpace (Coworking Partner)

The Judges
Anna, That Startup Show
Bill, TwoSpace
Linda, Simpateco

The Pitches
12:45 Shaun, Cardeal2Me
16:45 Adrian, Project Eucalypt. Email
20:30 Corey, Mode. Email
24:05 Dee, Reputationire
27:35 Brian, Brandollo
31:15 Max, Zero Impact. Email
35:15 Chris, Miraar
38:50 Mack, QuoteNow
42:55 Balwant, VelixID
46:40 Dayaan, VanHack
50:15 Nigel, MyCME
52:55 Mike, Dottr
Apologies for the audio synching problem at this point. My phone started buffering during recording. Running low on power.
56:20 John, Shiftiez
1:00:00 Stuart, Better Bill Me

The Finalists

Sorry. The video of the three finalists pitching did not get saved. Probably the phone too low on power. Note to self: always have the battery pack connected when videoing and more than one volunteer recording the pitches.

The Winners!

Congratulations to all the winners!

The Thanks

Team AcademyXi
In alphabetical order ~ Alex, Charbel, Frank, Rick, Sam, Tim and others I’m yet to meet. A very big THANK YOU to all. Looking forward to working with Team Xi across Sydney & Melbourne on many more joint events.

Team Silicon Beach
All this is possible thanks to our hardworking team of volunteers. They are always on Slack and/or Zoom, ready to lend a hand.

Our Melbourne team In alphabetical order — Alexar, Alex, Bryan, Cullen, Dan, John, Linda & Michael.

We have Sydney based Gerhard & Stephen recently joining Team SB. They will help us with marketing, sponsorships, partnerships and events across Sydney, Melbourne & nationally.

Join us on Silicon Beach Oz Slack to see what Team SB gets up to and the ideas they come up with. If you feel inspired to help, please PM me or any other team member on Slack. Or you can do what Boris did on the night of this event. He came up to us and said “I love what you guys do on Silicon Beach, I want to volunteer”. He is already on Slack and will be part of the team soon.

See you on the Beach!

As of writing, our March Pitch Night has nearly 100 RSVPs. Don’t miss out. RSVP now!

Can’t wait till then? Checkout SiliconCalendar to see what else is happening in Melbourne.

Thanks to our sponsors for supporting the community.

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Athula Bogoda
SiliconNews

CEO : Silicon Beach Group, Lead Organiser: Melbourne Silicon Beach. Driving Australia to #2 startup nation in the world by 2025.