[December 2011] Investor Feedback Forum and Pitch Showdown

Pitch contest winners: Indiewalls, Resoomay, MyStream

Greg Cangialosi

Owen Davis

Nihal Mehta

Marc Michel

Panelists (alphabetic order)

Greg Cangialosi (@gregcangialosi) CEO at Nucleus Ventures
Owen Davis (@owendavis) Managing Director at NYC Seed (audience choice)
Nihal Mehta (@nihalmehta) General Partner at ENIAC Ventures (audience choice)
Marc Michel (@marcmichelvc) Managing Partner at Metamophic Ventures

Startup Pitches

Duy Huynh - Taap.it
Robert Petti - Resoomay (2nd place pitch)
Richard Zelson - MyStream (3rd place pitch)
Joshua Dern - Reqoop
Aaron Sylvan - Lemonade Heroes
Maya Landesberg - I Had Cancer
Gavriel Wolf - Indiewalls (1st place pitch)
Andrew Cohen - Brainscape
Philip Reichen - LocalUncle

Format

Feedback Forum and Pitch Showdown is designed to:

Help early stage startups refine their investor pitch
Provide helpful, actionable advice on each startups business model from active, early-stage tech startup investors
Demonstrate to the audience how investors evaluate startup pitches
Award prizes to the most viable startups, based on audience and panel voting.

The three winning startups are automatically invited to pitch to the NY Angels.

Every startup pitching receives free pitch coaching from Indicate Media.

At the Investor Feedback Forum, the panel and the startup pitches are integrated into a single session. Startups pitch to a panel of early-stage technology investors. Each startup gives a pitch and brief demonstration of his/her product. The panel and audience ask follow-up questions after each pitch. The panel gives constructive feedback to each startup pitching. At the end of the series of pitches, the audience votes for their favorite pitches via Twitter. The winners are announced and prizes are awarded. Then we go for drinks nearby.