Pitch Contests

Winner

Avol, $5,000 cash prize

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Jared Ais, transportation planner and TikTok personality @TransitTalks

Judges

Dulcie Canton, CLIPbike
Judy Chang, itselectric
Dr. Jannie Gao, c2SMARTER
Phil Hwang, Dollaride
Patrick Knoth, Citibike/Lyft

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Winner

CarbonBridge, $5,000 cash prize

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Sabina Sethi Unni, Editor of Brooklyn Magazine

Judges

Greg Humphries, Vycarb
Griffin Reilly, ConEdison
Iben Falconer, itselectric
Sonam Velani, StreetlifeVentures
Tone Søndegaard, Offshore Wind Innovation Hub

Partners for this event included NYU Tandon School of Engineering and ConEdison.

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Winner

Barnwell Bio, $5,000 cash prize

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Brian Braiker, Editor of Brooklyn Magazine

Judges

Anna Castellani, founder of Local Culture Management
Nazli Parvizi, president of Museum of Food and Drink
Shorne Benjamin, founder and executive chef of Fat Fowl
Shad “The Brunch Guy” Ahmed, social media ‘foodie’ influencer
Theodora Fontas, managing director of Chefs for Impact

Partners for this event included NYU Tandon School of Engineering and City Point BKLYN.

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Winner

Libbie Health, $5,000 cash prize and in-kind legal services provided by Brooklyn Law School.

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Kathie Brill, Business and Innovation Community Manager, Downtown Brooklyn Partnership

Judges

Craig Wilson, Managing Director at NYU Tandon Future Labs
Etay Zwick, Design Director at Newlab
Jimmy Chen, Founder at Propel
Martha Norrick, Chief Technology Officer at NYC Office of Data Analytics

Partners for this event included Con Edison, Brooklyn Law Incubator and Policy Clinic (BLIP) at Brooklyn Law School, and The Gotham Organization.

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Winner

Meili Technologies, $5,000 cash prize, a co-working space package from Orchard Workspace by JLL, and in-kind legal services provided by Brooklyn Law School.

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Natasha Anderson, Founder and CEO, Natasha Knows Consulting

Judges

Adrianna Samaniego, Principal at Female Founders Fund
Eastin Rossell, Venture Associate at HearstLab
Shivika Arora, Product Manager at JP Morgan Chase
Faye Penn, Senior Vice President at NYC EDC
Erica Roseman, Founder and CEO of Concrete Communications

Partners for this event included NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Orchard Workspace by JLL, and Brooklyn Law Incubator and Policy Clinic (BLIP) at Brooklyn Law School.

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Winner

FoodFul, $5,000 cash prize, $20,000 in credits for Google Cloud storage, an interview with Big Idea Ventures, and a free strategy consulting session with EA Creative Consulting.

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Simon Sylvester-Chaudhuri, Executive Director, CIV:LAB

Judges

Ilia Papas, Angel Investor; Founder, Blue Apron
Abby Lyall, Program Director, Big Idea Ventures
Lily Bernicker, Venture Capital Investor, the Collaborative Fund
Henry Sztul, SVP of Science and Technology and first hire, Bowery Farming
Soo Choi, Startup Ecosystem Manager, Google

Partners for this event included Keystone Sponsors NYU Tandon School of Engineering and JPMorgan Chase & Co, as well as the NYC Ag Collective, EA Creative Consulting, Google, The Grid, and OCPNorth America.

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Winner

CLIP, $5,000 cash prize, two tickets to the Formula E Grand Prix in Red Hook, free strategy consultation with EA Creative Consulting, and in-kind legal services provided by the Brooklyn Law Incubator and Policy Clinic (BLIP) at Brooklyn Law School.

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Mike Murphy, Technology Editor at Quartz

Judges

Jessica Schumer, Executive Director, Friends of the BQX
Natalia Quintero, Program Director, Tech Transit Lab
John Rapaport, Partner at Cyrus Capital Partners
Charlie O’Donnell, Founder, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures
Jason Cahill, Managing Partner, Carbon Ventures

Partners for this event included Keystone Sponsor NYU Tandon School of Engineering, as well as Goodie, EA Creative Consulting, and The Hall.

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Winner

Piecewise, $5,000 cash prize, a guaranteed meeting with the Entrepreneur’s Roundtable Accelerator investment team, and in-kind legal services provided by the Brooklyn Law Incubator and Policy Clinic (BLIP) at Brooklyn Law School.

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Annie McDonough, Tech Reporter at City & State NY

Judges

Victoria Cerullo, Director of Business Strategy, Bloomberg LP
Jeremy Harper, Principal, Entrepreneur’s Roundtable Accelerator
Kevin Siskar, Managing Director, Founder Institute New York
Hatice Uzun, Professor of Finance, LIU Brooklyn
Jon Zanoff, Managing Director, TechStars

Partners for this event included: NYU Tandon School of Engineering

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Winner

Food Period, $5,000 cash prize, a pitch to Whole Foods Market, plus in-kind legal services provided by the Brooklyn Law Incubator and Policy Clinic (BLIP) and the Center for Urban Business Entrepreneurship (CUBE) at Brooklyn Law School.

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Rachel Fleischer, Urban Future Lab

Judges

Henry Gordon-Smith, Co-Founder, AgTech X
Allison Kopf, Founder & CEO, Agrilyst
Christopher Manca, Whole Foods Forager, Whole Foods Market
Charlie O’Donnell, Partner, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures
Tinia Pina, Founder & CEO, Re-Nuble

Partners for this event included: NYU Tandon School of Engineering, AgTech X, and Agritecture

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Winner

BUPeriod, $5,000 cash prize, free flex space for two people at NYU Tandon’s Data or Digital Future Lab for one month in 2018, plus in-kind legal services provided by the Brooklyn Law Incubator and Policy Clinic (BLIP) and the Center for Urban Business Entrepreneurship (CUBE) at Brooklyn Law School.

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Kia Brooks, NY Media Center by IFP

Judges

Azita Ardakani, Partner, Honeycomb Portfolio
Jacquelyn De Jesu, Founder & CEO, SHHHOWERCAP
Angela Harrington, Vice President, Communications & External Relations, Berkeley College
Jennifer Iannolo, Founder & CEO, The Concordia Project
Deborah Zajac, Director, Touchdown Ventures

Partners for this event included: JP Morgan Chase, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, SixPoint Brewery, CUPER, Brooklyn Innovation Center

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Winner

Bixby $5,000 cash and in-kind legal services provided by the Brooklyn Law Incubator and Policy
Clinic (BLIP) and the Center for Urban Business Entrepreneurship (CUBE) at Brooklyn Law School.

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Tyler Woods, Technical.ly Brooklyn

Judges

Shaina Horowitz, Urban Tech Hub Director, New Lab
David Post, Global Enterprise Public Sector Leader, IBM
Miriam Roure, Program Director, URBAN-X
Joe Silver, Program Manager, Urban Future Lab, NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Jacob Yormak, Partner, Story Ventures

Partners for this event included:
JP Morgan Chase, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, NYU CUSP, SixPoint Brewery, Yaso Tangbao, REMIX Summits

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Winner

NeMedIO $5,000 cash and $15,000 worth of Design + Strategy Services from Berlin Cameron

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Dee Poku-Spalding, The Other Festival

Judges

Ishveen Anand, Founder of OpenSponsorship
Valerie Biberaj, Director, Kate Spade & Company Foundation / Director, Philanthropic Programming for
Kate Spade & Company
Jennifer DaSilva, President of Berlin Cameron
Alessandra Henderson, VP of Network at Human Ventures
Yao Huang, Founder and Managing Partner of The Hatchery

Partners for this event included:
JP Morgan Chase, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, City Point, The Other Festival, and Brooklyn Brewery.

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