ShoeFitr Wins Global Pitch Competition
In July, members of the Pittsburgh startup community gathered at Ben Franklin Technology Partners Innovation Works (BFTP/IW)’s AlphaLab to participate in This Week in Startups second international pitch contest.
Shoefitr founders Breck Fresen, Nick End and Matt Wilkinson
Each city participating in the contest selected their community’s best entry to make their business case on the live broadcast. In Pittsburgh, several pitches were presented before the show’s live podcast began, and Shoefitr was selected as the Pittsburgh representative. Shoefitr, a BFTP/IW company, competed against technology companies in London, Paris, Madrid and other cities around the globe, as well as huge tech centers in the US such as San Diego and Los Angeles.
At the end of the show, This Week In Startups hosts (based in Silicon Valley) and participants in the chat room selected Shoefitr as the winner of the international pitch contest. You can see their pitch and the great comments from the moderators giving them the win at AlphaLab’s blog.
Though Shoefitr won the pitch competition, the other winner in this event was fellow AlphaLab company Deviceknit, whose founder, John Ganotis, organized Pittsburgh’s participation. Pittsburgh had the largest contingent of entrepreneurs for the global meetup and, according to the two moderators, “Pittsburgh has got this one right. Invest in these startups and give people the reason to stay.”
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