Schedule

How It Works

• Submit an application.
• Submit your 1-2-page executive summary.
• Submit short answers to questions.
• 90-second video pitch
• Judging is based on video pitch, executive summary, pitch deck and short answers

• Semi-finalist teams selected, announced and invited to campus.
• Investor Challenge Begins. Each semi-finalist team is given a bracket with all competing semi-finalist ventures.
  • Watch the 90-second pitches.
  • Select the ventures you think will move on in each round, including the Grand Prize winner.

• Semi-finalist teams pitch on campus.
• Teams get 7 minutes to pitch and 7 minutes of Q&A with judges.
• Judging is based on live pitches, Q&A, pitch deck, application, executive summary and short answers.
• The top team from each of the 5 flights moves on to the final round on April 6, 2025.

• The second place team from each flight that pitched earlier in the day will have the opportunity to pitch again to a different set of judges.
• Teams get 7 minutes to pitch and 7 minutes of Q&A with judges.
• Judging is based on live pitches, Q&A.
• The top 2 teams from the Lightning Round will move on to the final round on April 6, 2025.

• Finalist teams pitch to finalist judges.
• Teams get 10 minutes to pitch and 10 minutes of Q&A with judges.
• Judging is based on live pitches, Q&A and pitch deck.