Pitch Pit and Showcase Presentation
Feature Presentation
What does it take to turn mushrooms into a food business that grows? Join us to hear the story behind building a mushroom-based food business and get a glimpse of what it takes to bring an unconventional idea to market. Looking forward to seeing W.E. Da’Cruz and hearing about the Mushroom Angel Company.
Pitch Pit Competition
Selected entrepreneurs will each give a four-minute pitch of their business plan to a panel of investor judges in a “Shark Tank” format. PowerPoint slides are not permitted. Think of it as the proverbial “elevator speech.”
After all of the pitches are completed, the judges will give detailed feedback. At the end of the evening, the person with the highest score will have the opportunity to receive a Business Readiness Assessment coaching session with New Enterprise Forum coaches. Interested in pitching your own idea? Apply here!
Participants
Jay Offen with BioMEMS
David Frye and Chloe Duty with Ghostlure
Alicia Bettis with PermitSpark
Alison Smith, Director of the University of Michigan FUEL. Alison serves as Assistant Director at the University of Michigan’s Center for Entrepreneurship, where she is thrilled to empower students across campus pursuing their passions. After spending her career in the automotive industry, she now guides student innovators and directs U-M’s Fuel program, which delivered nearly $200,000 in non-dilutive funding to student ventures last academic year alone. Alison earned her BSE and MSE in Industrial and Operations Engineering from U-M.
Lee Gorman is the founder of Barton Consulting Services, LLC. For over fourteen years she has worked with SPARK’s Entrepreneurial Services to connect startups with the resources they need. She is the Managing Director of SPARK’s Entrepreneur Boot Camp and teaches their series of Customer Discovery Workshops. She also serves as an Expert in Residence at Centrepolis Accelerator at Lawrence Technological University, which she helped develop from a small entrepreneurial program. Lee holds both an MBA and a BBA from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and a BSME from Lawrence Technological University.
Lauren DeVries, Capital Programs Associate at Ann Arbor SPARK.
Networking
Come join us in person to enjoy food and drink and conversation with members of the local startup community.
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