Pitch Night Competition Champions Women Founders
On March 4, in honor of Women’s History Month, The Community Foundation Mission Investments Company hosted a Pitch Night celebrating entrepreneurship by and for women.
On March 4, in honor of Women’s History Month, The Community Foundation Mission Investments Company (TCFMIC) hosted a Pitch Night celebrating entrepreneurship by and for women.
More than 75 partners, investors, community leaders and entrepreneurs gathered at The Lab at ConnCORP as five women founders pitched their businesses to a panel of expert judges: Carlton Highsmith, ConnCORP founder and board chairman; Tanya Kelley, a financial business advisor with the Women’s Business Development Council; and Mostafa Analoui, director of M&T Bank Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship.
Jeanine DeFalco of Mixta AI won the first-place prize of $4,000 for her business that identifies and develops learning and training resources.
View photos from TCFMIC's Women's History Month Pitch Night.
Christina Phillips, who developed the organic lingerie business Puure, won second place and a prize of $2,500. Tiffany Yu won the third-place prize of $1,500 for her business GlowHopper, which maps Narcan availability.
“I don’t know a single business owner who isn’t focused on civics – on making communities better,” said Secretary of the State of Connecticut Stephanie Thomas.
Nupur Garg, the founder of Pro-Patient Tech and the winner of the pitch competition in September, spoke about the powerful impact of the top prize. “It’s just an amazing, transformational thing,” she said.
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