Pitch to Launch 2025
Overview
Join innovative teams from USD, DSU, and SDSU as they pitch their technologies that might shape the future!
- Food-tech & Ag-tech innovations
- Event management & booking solutions
- Cybersecurity, fraud verification & anti-counterfeiting tech
- AI-powered dental diagnostics
- Plant genome engineering
- Autonomous robotics & AI for inspection, mapping, and crop analysis
Whether you're an entrepreneur, investor, technologist, student, or community member, or just curious — this event is for YOU.
Meet Aspiring Founders & Form New Partnerships: Connect with innovators, angels, VCs, industry leaders, and ecosystem partners looking to build what’s next.
Discover the essentials of customer discovery, product-market fit, funding strategy, and go-to-market execution.
Teams compete for up to $5,000 in in-kind prizes, including:
- SBIR/STTR support up to $3,000
- $1,000 in legal/LLC formation support
- $1,000 in back-office + admin support
Come watch, support, network — and be inspired. Join us and see it happen.
Brought to you by the SDSU I-Corps Team and the SDSU Research Park.
See you there!
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Highlights
- 4 hours
- In person
Location
2301 Research Park Way
2301 Research Park Way
Brookings, SD 57006
How do you want to get there?
Pitch (9 teams, from SDSU, USD and DSU)
Judging & Mini Break with Small Bites
Award Announcements and Social Networking
Organized by
Rajesh Kavasseri and Dwaine Chapel
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