Pitch Competition

Running a successful pitch competition stems from executing early preparation well. We will walk you through setting up and managing to have the most successful competition possible. It is best to pair a pitch competition with a panel to help broaden the audience and increase attendance. A panel of high-profile…

Three things you should definitely watch out for when pitching at a startup competition, and three things you might want to avoid. Pitching your startup in front of an expert jury, potentially even consisting of potential investors and industry leaders, can be a nerve-wracking experience, but it can also be…

Written by Monica Garza On Thursday, October 27th, 2022, four student founded startup teams from The University of Texas at Austin pitched their business concepts to a panel of judges in competition for $35,000 in cash and prizes at the 2022 DisrupTexas Undergrad Pitch Competition Finals. DisrupTexas is an annual…

With the second CBK Ventures Pitch Competition coming on November 18, we caught up with two of our past winners, Cody Eddings and Amy Felix, to talk about how their companies have grown and their advice to the new applicants. Can you give us an overview of your business? CE: SnapRefund empowers insurance businesses with a digital payment platform…

One thing that VC Twitter (and the broader news cycle) hasn’t been dancing around is the need for founders to conserve cash in an uncertain market. Unfortunately, many of the earlier stage businesses I’ve chatted with have grown accustomed to the easy money approach VCs took in 2021. …

Are you a founder of a blockchain project looking for more exposure? Is the bear market draining your treasury and making capital raising difficult? Have you built the foundations for a great web3 project but are now unsure how to take your project to the next level? …

👉 Are you ramping up for a startup pitch competition? 👉 Do you want to create beautiful pitch deck slides, but don’t know where to start? If you said yes to either of the above questions, then you might just be interested in watching my video here (https://youtu.be/Hbk_KTQjlAk) …

The Nairobi Pitch Competition Tour was an exciting affair that happened on 29th January 2022. 10 projects were pitched by different contenders, each offering solutions to Kenyan based challenges that can be built on blockchain and NEAR Protocol. Truth is, all the projects were brilliant and viable, and even the…

If you walk down Nairobi streets, you wouldn’t imagine how well mentally endowed the Kenyan youth are, particularly in solving challenges facing Kenya. It is only until you sit down in a pitch competition, where the young generation airs out their solutions to challenges facing the country, that you will…