Pitch In - March - Women's History Month Edition

Mar 14, 9:30 PM – Mar 15, 12:00 AM

Great Lakes Gaming, 100 South Clinton Avenue, Rochester, 14604

Grab a seat to join the monthly pitch-in and a grab a slice of pizza, come join us to socialize and make friends in the startup community of the Genessee Valley during International Women's History Month.

In-person event
PartyPitch Battle

About this event

A Pitch In is an event where anyone can pitch their startup to the crowd and the crowd gives feedback. This event will focus on local startups looking for awareness and feedback.

AGENDA

5:30pm - Meet and greet

6:00pm - Pitches

6:45pm - Cocktail hour

PITCH FORMAT

Startup Pitch - 10 minutes

Open Q&A - 5 minutes


MEET THE STARTUPS

A Place to Go
Rohini, Sabrina, Shreya
Winners of RIT's Women in Computing Hackathon (WiCHacks) 2024 for "Best Women and Gender Hack." A Place to Go is a mobile application that helps improve campus navigation and inclusivity by providing tailored support for gender minorities and women, offering easy access to gender-neutral restrooms and other safe spaces (resource centers, lactation rooms, low-sensory rooms, etc.).

TagTeams
Sarah and Bob

Sarah and Bob are working on solving operating room downtimes by streamlining the post-op clean and prep of each room, using a software platform for the necessary teams to plug in and know when they are “tagged” in. 


Aveisha and Kaveri
Aveisha and Kaveri are founders from the University of Rochester's Biomedical Engineering department. They are working on a device that assists with the removal of dura from the skull.


APPLY NOW TO PITCH

Want to present your startup or any interesting topic or do a fireside chat? Sign up to pitch in our next pitch in here


Your support helps our team run these events! Startup Grind Rochester is a volunteer-led community organization. We operate the Pitch In events free of charge, however, if you would like to support our community and help us grow please consider one of the paid ticket options! Thank you and we look forward to seeing you all soon!

Check out what happened

When

When

March 14 – 15, 2024
9:30 PM – 12:00 AM UTC

Organizers

  • Michael Thaney

    Startup Grind

    Director

  • Joshua Batres

    CivicPulse

    Community Outreach Lead

  • Dustin Doucette

    Upstate Venture Connect

    Director of Operations

  • Carolyn Spencer

    CoPivot

    Founder Relations

  • Ananth Prajval Tallavajhula

    SchoolQuizz

    Community Manager

  • Eric Leinberg

    Founder @ InfoPreserve

  • Nate Thomas

    Advisor

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Dell Technologies logo

Dell Technologies

Partners

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Great Lakes Gaming

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CoPivot

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