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Pitch Pit and Showcase Presentations
Celer Energy and AgriDynamics
Showcase Presentation
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Kyle Lammers with AgriDynamics. AgriDynamics builds physical AI for specialty crops to address critical farm labor shortages. The company’s goal is to transform agriculture with intelligent robots that protect every harvest and enable a more sustainable future.
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 receive the opportunity to receive a Business Readiness Assessment coaching session with New Enterprise Forum coaches. Interested in pitching your own idea? Apply here!
Participants
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Sierra Lambert with Gig-L
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Caitlyn Chen with Imgo
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Maria Haugen with Foxx Health
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Suhan Park with Oprones
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Judges
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Steve Tokarz of Cantilever Investors. Steve is an experienced C-level entrepreneur, fundraiser and business developer and has been active in early-stage company and product development for the past 30 years. He is founder of Cantilever Investors, a blend of the best of Venture Capital and Private Equity to invest in and provide support to early-stage companies. Cantilever acts as both investor and, for the select few, operators in the company. Cantilever also has close relationships with several Michigan based universities successfully spinning out five university companies, raising over $7M in nondilutive capital.
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Stephanie Morley, DVM, iis a veterinarian-turned-entrepreneur with clinical roots in small animal and laboratory animal medicine. After practicing for the first few years of her career, she led operations at MPI Research and functioned as AD of business development at U-M’s Fast Forward Medical Innovation. In her first start-up she was the cofounder and COO of Zomedica where she built the business that supported its TSXV listing (2016) and NYSE American crosslist (2017) and launched its first product. Since leaving, she has advised startups on strategy, IP commercialization, and founder support, launched Purgo Scientific’s device into veterinary markets, and now serves as President of Vetlen, their veterinary division.
Networking
Come join us in person to enjoy food and drink and conversation with members of the local startup community.