TECH PITCH BATTLE

MARL Startup Studio, Metro Collective, and Startup Grind Rochester are partnering to bring you another round of pitch battles. The top tech startups in our community will come together and online pitch for all the glory.

CONGRATS TO THE WINNERS

FIRST PLACE Jake Downie and Matt London founder of JDocs

SECOND PLACE Conrad Niedzielski & Josiah Faison Tale

THIRD PLACE Ndidi Chimah The Blackbook

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD from our twitter post Ndidi Chimah and The Blackbook. Check out the NFT!

HOW IT WORKS

APPLY by August 10th (8/10)

5 Finalists will be selected by August 15th (8/15)

Pitch Battle will be streamed on August 18th (8/18) at 5 PM

STARTUPS APPLY HERE

PRIZES

1st Place – $100 Amazon gift card, $10,000 in AWS service credits and MARL mentoring for 1 hour with a Managing Partner

2nd Place – $10,000 in AWS service credits

3rd Place – MARL mentoring for 3 hours with a Managing Partner

APPLY TO PITCH

MEET THE JUDGES

Prakash Goswami - Managing Partner of MARL Accelerator & Startup Studio

Steve Smith - FLX AI

George Adams - Founder of RocDev

MEET THE STARTUPS

Meet the Tech Startup finalists:

1. Brandy Young Certainty Analytical Labs - Pitch Video
2. Jamar Watkins Rampant - Pitch Video
3. Conrad Niedzielski & Josiah Faison Tale
4. Jake Downie JDocs - Pitch Video
5. Ndidi Chimah The Blackbook

HOSTS

Maureen Ballatori - founder of Metro Collective & 29 Designs

Jennifer Sertl - Director Community at MARL Startup Studio