Pitchfest
Founded in 2015, Pitchfest was created to ensure the active-outdoor industries attract bold, visionary women with a passion for business and the outdoors, while driving industry-wide innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship.
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Women-led (companies must be 1/3 women founded and/or led) early stage start-ups apply to showcase their work and growth plans to some of the active-outdoor industry’s most influential CEOs, entrepreneurs, investors, and thought leaders.
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Finalists were chosen based on the strength of their application, involvement/impact on the outdoor experience, knowledge of their business, and understanding of growth hurdles.
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After 8 weeks of one-on-one and peer mentoring, each finalist had 5 minutes to articulate their business opportunity and hurdles followed by 7 minutes of rapid-fire questions and feedback from a panel of illustrious and influential judges.
Pitchfest 2018 marked the 4th year of the program, which supported 33 entrepreneurs and accelerated innovation and leadership in the active-outdoor industries