Slate Wins Spring 2020 Virtual Pitch Competition
On Friday, April 17, 6 startups pitched their ideas to 3 local judges virtually for the first Virtual Pitch Competition produced by Startup Exchange. Tech Square ATL partnered up with the Georgia Tech student organization to help live stream the pitches. The competition was streamed to both Tech Square ATL’s YouTube page, and Startup Exchange’s Facebook page, allowing for the startups to also take questions from the viewing audience that was submitted via YouTube chat.
To minimize the occurrence of technical difficulties, each startup’s pitch was captured ahead of time, and the video was played during the live stream for the judges to see for the first time. The judge’s feedback and Q&A with the startup founders however, was live.
Deciding a winner was a difficult one, but Slate came through with the 1st place prize. Founder Kiandra Peart, is making us re-think the way we recycle paper, by using the prize money to prototype the first Reverse Printer. The device promises to take any piece of paper with ink or writing, and remove the printed ink, producing a clean sheet, ready to be printed on again immediately.
Winners:
1st Place: Slate
2nd Place: Gymsplat
People’s Choice: FastPath
Judges:
Seth Radman
Blanca Garcia
Rahul Saxena
Watch the full stream replay below: