PROVIDENCE – The Get Started Rhode Island pitch competition will take place on Oct. 4 at the WaterFire Arts Center, Cox Business announced Wednesday.
Entrepreneurs will compete for a chance to win a prize package valued up to $50,000, including $25,000 cash.
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Finalists for the competition are:
- Richard McDonald and Clemens Grave for Finnest, a prepaid debit card account and mobile app for kids
- Nico Enriquez for Farmer Willie’s, an alcoholic low-sugar craft ginger beer
- Linden Wyatt for Phlip Diagnostics, which utilizes a pH-Low Insertion Peptide platform to distinguish between healthy and cancerous tissue
- Vishnu Dantu for Predictive Optics, a continuous imaging system that integrates with surgical scopes
- Victor Ricci for Trend Pie, which connects companies’,social influencers and content specialists to drive new audience and downloads
- Alex Tavares for Tvar EdTech, with a flagship product Read Read, which is a phonics teaching device that allows both sighted and blind students to learn foundational reading skills without a teacher’s direct instruction
PBN Editor Mark S. Murphy is among the four panelist judges. Other judges include Melissa Withers, the managing director of Betaspring; James Ledbetter, editor at Inc. magazine; and Thorne Sparkman, managing director at the Slater Technology Fund.
Ken Kraft, the senior vice president of marketing and sales operations for Cox Business, is the events moderator.
The event is free to attend but requires registration at www.getstartedri.com.
