TiE NEW YORK PITCH COMPETITION

TiE New York is excited to open applications for its Women & Minority Founders Pitch Competition being held on March 17 in New York!

Five startups will be selected to pitch to a curated audience of potential investors from the TiE NY community. You can use this form to apply to be one of those five startups.

Qualifications:

To qualify, companies must meet the following criteria:

1. At least one woman or BIPOC founder/co-founder
2. Startup at the pre-seed, seed or pre-Series A stage
3. Actively fundraising or plan to be fundraising in 2023
4. Able to show traction through
   1. acquisition of one or more customers (if B2B), or
   2. 10k+ users (if B2C), or
   3. post-revenue for 6+ months, or
   4. previously raised $100k+

Timeline:

• Feb 10, 2023 – Applications Close
• Mar 17, 2023 – Pitch Competition

The TiE New York Pitch Competition allows founders to pitch to a room full of investors and other entrepreneurs. The TiE NY Pitch Competition in the context of the chapter’s Angel Investing program, TiE New York Angels.

TiE New York typically hosts 2 pitch competition events in a given year, one is TIE women pitch competition and other one is general pitch competition.

We select five startup finalists from all the applicants: a diverse group of entrepreneurs, some early stage and some late-stage companies from multiple different industries. Applicants are judged on the following criteria:

• 1. Value created by the new product/services.
  2. Attractiveness of the market opportunity globally
  3. Competitive advantage of the proposed venture.
  4. Operational and technology viability.
  5. Capability of the management team.
  6. Raise and exit strategy – please feel free to ask for this during the Q & A if it is not part of the presentation.
  7. Strength of the oratory and PowerPoint presentation.

Any individual company that receives $100,000 in investment from the Charter Members in the New York chapter will be nominated to pitch on the TiE Global Angels platform. The global platform gives startups the opportunity to pitch to 15,000 Charter Members from all 57 chapters in the TiE network around the world.

The 2023 event dates will be released soon with all details to apply. To learn more about the TiE Pitch Competition and other events, sign up for our mailing list. 

For more information contact:

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